It has been our mission to bridge the digital divide in these areas where many youth reside but without access to education,technology and information.And for sure it will be an elephant task to train youth in Musoma because of the low levels of English language that is a common affair in all sectors of life.This is a swahili speaking nation where the syllubus and curriculum has been delivered in Swahili from the elementary level save for the high schools.To the students this does not hold much ground as they believe they are able to cope with the basic skills in English.
We have invested 15 super fast machines in this resource center that will host 15 students per sitting within the Matumaini Kwa Vijana center(MCC).This is a first kind of a center to be put up in Musoma a town that borders lake Victoria.We forsee so many young people abandoning fishing activities to aggressively persue education in ICT and Multimedia skills. And for a group of students who never had a chance to use computers or exploit the internet opportunities,this is a nother new lease in life.It is a new begining beacuse many confesed coming from poor families who could barely afford basic needs.Some said they never had a meaningful chance of attending either a college or university.
A lot of credit goes to the TDH(Terre Des Hommes)organization that has sponsored Mukuru kwa Reuben,KampaBits,and MusomaBits centers.It is through the grant and donations that the Dutch organization provided to NairoBits for establishement of the centers that we have been able to come up with such mega information and resource centers outside Kenya.
It is hard to tell what future holds for such innovative initiatives and interventions that depends on goodwill from the donor community but what we are sure about is that someone's life will one day change for better because they had contact with one of these centers.We are also sure that cutting edge technologies will keep popping up in the ICT sectors while more and more desperate youth will keep lagging behind because of lack of skills or opportunity to persue such technological advancement and opportunities.