DirectEd Development has partnered with top high schools in Kenya to equip form four leavers with crucial tech skills. In this cohort are Alliance Boys and Girls High Schools, Maryhill Girls, Kagumo Boys, and Mang’u High School, steered by Dr. Moses Kahure, Co-founder and Kenya Lead.
In an address to the graduating class at Kenyatta University, Dr. Kahure explained that the program does world-class training in web development, coding, and artificial intelligence for four months, succeeded by eight months of paid internship. The set-up gave students real-life experience and an opportunity to benefit monetarily.
The firm also facilitates apprenticeships with global companies based in the US and Europe, ensuring beneficiaries earn decent incomes as they pursue their university education. We design our training informed by insights from frontier scientific research and state-of-the-art technology trends,” said Dr. Kahure, underscoring collaboration and transparency.
The program is aimed at bridging the gap in the global job market with highly sought-after skills that will give students a competitive edge. He has called upon the Kenyan youth to embrace technology in order to combat unemployment, which is available in plenty in the digital workspace. He urges the government to provide adequate resources to support the training initiatives for the youth.
Beneficiaries, among them Gift Musila and Dennis Mwangangi, who are both Mang’u High School alums, lauded the program. Musila was able to get training on how to create websites and in product development while Mwangangi got an entirely new network of peers working in the same field and one of the Berlin Scholarship slots. Parent Edith Wagura whose daughter benefited from the program thanked it for equipping her with the necessary tech skills, which will complement her upcoming computer science studies at JKUAT.
This therefore is likely to be one of the major strides in giving the youth in Kenya the necessary skills to thrive in a digital economy.