Meeting Needs, the event industry foundation, is helping to fund a full-year, full-time digital skills and coding ´boot camp´ for 30 unemployed youngsters aged 17–30.
The Meeting Needs grant of £6,900 will purchase 30 computers to be installed at the Batoka Centre of Hope in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The project is delivered by the Jafuta Foundation, a local foundation with whom Meeting Needs has worked for the past eight years on various projects. It will be delivered alongside a Youth Coding Outreach programme that will introduce digital literacy to 500+ school children across surrounding rural schools called the uncommon.org–Jafuta Foundation Technology Bootcamp and Youth Coding Outreach Programme.
This is a major project for the Foundation which is being delivered as a joint venture with an American charity, Uncommon. Uncommon are financing the salaries, transport and all ancillary costs. Jafuta are donating their infrastructure together with hardware.
Meeting Needs trustee Dave Dodgeon said: “We have built an excellent relationship with the Jafuta Foundation in the past eight years and such partnerships give us a broader reach and greater local expertise to get things done. Delivering practical education and employment opportunities are key areas of activities for us.”
To find out how you can work with Meeting Needs, contact Margaret Mann at mmann@meetingneeds.org.uk
