Youth employability
Some of Tag's employability projects
From Rwanda to Sri Lanka, From Myanmar to Kenya
Microsoft/Myanmar
In collaboration with Microsoft, Tag developed an online mentoring platform for skills training and an exciting hackathon involving over 30 local partners to enable young people to fulfil their potential.
Talented youth were selected from rural Universities to become “Youth Ambassadors”. Throughout the year, they gained a unique set of technical computer science, business and leadership skills which they delivered throughout their communities via a Train of Training approach. Those YAs and additional selected students participated in the program working in groups to identify key social challenges in their community and develop innovative solutions. These youth gained further access to training in technical skills including IT practical skills (including infrastructure, digital skills and coding), business skills, work skills and exposure to a range of expert mentors.
i-tek/Kenya
This project worked to narrow the “digital divide”, by providing girls in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County, Kenya with access to computers.
Through i-tek, Tag and its partners established a computer lap and provided training to carefully selected participants from several highly impoverished communities in the area. It helped equalize access to ICT and promote digital literacy by providing opportunities for girlsto gain access to ICTs and learn the fundamental digital skills and competencies.
Employability/Myanmar
Through a program called E3, Tag increased access to job skills training among Myanmar’s rural youth, with a focus on IT literacy, technology and entrepreneurship. Throughout Myanmar, rural youth lack basic computer skills, which can limit opportunities to establish new businesses or find employment outside of agriculture.
E3 worked to inspire youth from rural areas and University Students through exposure to computer science, technology skills, and basic coding to generate solutions for local social and economic challenges.