Scaling Out: Taking Digital Skill Sets To West African High School Students
In the past year, we have primarily focused our activities in Western Kenya in and around Eldoret. We’ve managed to get our curriculum to 3000+ students in the following schools:
- Kapsabet Boys High School
- Kapsabet Girls High School
- Mwiruti Secondary School
- St. Joseph’s Chepterit Girls Secondary School
- Chemundu High School
- Terige Boys High School
- Baraton Adventist Secondary School
We’ve learnt a lot from these schools and working with them has given us a chance to help a number of the students to achieve their own personal objectives as well as those of the community they belong to. Our work with them has also helped us concretize our curriculum and programs.
For us, the natural and most meaningful step after this is to test our curriculum elsewhere to test its viability and suitability in other regions. This has prompted us to focus our efforts in West Africa.
Our focus on West Africa is primarily targeted at countries and/or communities that have some basic understanding of digital technology and its workings. This primarily narrows our audience to the people of Ghana and Cameroon.
We’re already in talks with a number of schools, particularly in the urban Ghana region, about partnering to conduct digital camps in these schools. The camps will see the students trained in digital literacy, citizen journalism and digital techniques, and hacktivism. Our plan is to identify the needs and objectives of the students in the region. We are in the process of doing this with a couple of partnering institutions in Ghana.
Once we know the needs and objectives of the students in this region, we will tailor our curriculum to suit their needs in a way that best helps them achieve their intended end.
As at now, we have identified four schools which we will profile later on our blog. While this is a starting point, it is our aim to reach as many as 3000 students in the region. We hope to do this by partnering with institutions that are willing to adopt our programs for their students.
If you have an institution based anywhere in West Africa and are willing to partner with us, we’ll be willing to have a chat. Email me directly on simeon@thekuyuproject.org
[...] months ago we announced our plans to scale up our digital literacy camps to West Africa with a view to test the feasibility of our curriculum in various places beyond our East [...]
[...] months ago we announced our plans to scale up our digital literacy camps to West Africa with a view to test the feasibility of our curriculum in various places beyond our East [...]