Eight women and ten men some Interns and Trainers have been awarded certificates by Digital Opportunity Trust after completion of 10 months internship under ReachUp! Program on Project Management, Advocacy, Facilitation, coaching and leadership skills.
DOT’s vision is to make these opportunities available to marginalized people, especially women and youth, as a strategy to eradicate poverty, vulnerability and gender inequality.
Nadine Umuhire a Computer Engineer at KIST and an outgoing Intern said, “Over nine months we trained and coached marginalized community members in ICT, Life Skills and Entrepreneurship. This has improved their livelihoods and incomes. We helped them conduct market research, business planning and sourcing for micro finance.”
Hormisdas Ndayambaje – Teacher and intern says,“The time we had at DOT has been about our delivering the ReachUp! Program. When I think of DOT, I think of Business not employment. It means a lot to me. I have learnt from the courage of participants. I have seen them grow and transform their lives.”
DOT works with Community Participants which include women, youth, unemployed and under-employed where the entrepreneurial spirit and skills are developed within their minds.
Within the training each intern is supposed to teach a minimum of 20 participants each month on ICT, business and livelihood skills and 140 participants are expected to be taught at the end of the training of each.
DOT Rwanda was launched in March 2010 to deliver the Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Development in Rwanda (E2DR) Project to deliver DOT’s economic programs the ReachUp! and StartUp!
DOT was established in Canada in 2002, Digital Opportunity Trust is an innovator in enabling people to access and apply information and communications technologies (ICT) to create education, economic and entrepreneurial opportunities.
It was awarded funding to run its program by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the MasterCard Foundation.
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