 Grandaunts proudly display their certificates Over 300 women were awarded certificates, in a vibrant ceremony following their successful completion of the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Microsoft Corporation-sponsored Reaching the Un-reached programme. The graduation ceremony was graced by Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Mr. Will Poole and the Regional General Manager for East Africa, Mr. Louis Otieno.
The ceremony was held at the Kingdom Business Network along Kabarnet Road off Ngong Road on Friday June 13th 2008 starting 2 pm.
The graduands underwent training in ICT, entrepreneurship and life skills. The young women were trained at ACWICT’s secretariat in Kileleshwa, Nairobi under ACWICT’s flagship program “Reaching the Un-reached”. The program seeks to empower women, improve lives, create and sustain wealth and broaden digital inclusion in Kenya. The training has impacted 2,100 indirect beneficiaries.
The majority of women who undertook the training had a high school level of education with a minority being college level women as well as high school drop-outs. The women who are self employed are in retail micro-enterprise ventures such as hair dressing, running grocery shops and second-hand clothes dealers while others are house-helps and house wives.
Reaching the Un-reached program is a community-based capacity building initiative that trains women in rural and urban communities in Kenya to apply ICT-enabled entrepreneurship. They do this to generate new business activities, new income, new jobs and in the long term community development opportunities. The focus of this program is women and women entrepreneurs within six thematic areas of ICT, agriculture, livestock, trade, fishing and tourism to transform their lives at family, business and community levels. |
