slovak cooperation in it education at schools in kenya

 

Supporting teachers and students in South-East Kenya through enhancing their PC abilities

In January 2010 the Pontis Foundation and its Kenyan partner organization Youth for Conservation start a new project: “Slovak cooperation in IT education at Schools in Kenya”. 

This new project seeks to provide at least 4 Kenyan domestic teachers with a 10-day ICT training in their homeland followed by exchange trips to at least 3 Slovak schools, with the aim to familiarize and train the teachers in basic Microsoft Office and internet-user skills, making them able to use these abilities in their own classes and to spread newly acquired knowledge to their colleagues.

The project is based on the successful Slovak adaptation of the Microsoft’s educational project “Innovative Teacher” which received Via Bona Slovakia Award 2008 and will be carried out by Slovak teachers who themselves went through the program, aided by an associate expert from Microsoft Slovakia. It is based on direct experience of the Kenyan teachers and students, as well as mutual Slovak-Kenyan contact and virtual communication.

Apart from providing for computer equipment and internet installation the students will be also trained in looking for job opportunities online – enhancing the young generation’s access to labor market. Moreover, the Pontis Foundation believes that familiarity with PC and internet will increase chances of the region’s people to develop eco-tourism – a crucial economic sector for South-Eastern region of Kenya.

The project “Slovak cooperation in IT education at schools in Kenya” (Supporting teachers and students in South-East Kenya through enhancing their PC abilities) which is scheduled until June 2011, is supported by the Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation (SAMRS) with the amount 80,640€ from the resources of official development aid Slovak Aid.

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