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Jointly
organized by UNDP, Microsoft Company
and the Youth Association for Habitat
and Agenda 21, the educational project
entitled “Young Trainers Teach
Their Peers Basic Computer Skills” which
started in 2005 and has already
enabled 1,200 young people to become
computer-literate by the end of
the year, continues unwaveringly.
In its second stage which began
last month, the project will reach
out to 25 thousand more people within
a year.
Supported by UNDP and Microsoft, and conducted
by the Youth Association for Habitat
and Agenda 21, the project aims
to improve the communication and computer
skills of local youth councils set up
within the scope of “Turkey Local
Agenda 21 Programme”, and especially
of socially disadvantaged youth
in various provinces.
The project was launched in March 2005
with the selection of 40 young volunteers
who would train their local peers in
basic computer skills. The volunteers
were first given courses on how to become
trainers, then they went back to their
home towns and searched for local facilities
where they could teach. They arranged
the cooperation of local establishments
and/or businesses, be that a public recreational
centre, a social activity club, or an
internet cafe, and started training their
coevals in computer literacy.
1,200 young people received training from
these volunteers between June 2005-February
2006. Knowing for fact that these “graduates” passed
their freshly-acquired skills to their
brothers, sisters and friends, we believe
the number of new computer users back
home is much higher.
In the second stage of the “Young
Trainers Teach Their Peers Basic Computer
Skills” project this year, the
number of volunteers, coming from 26
different provinces of Turkey, has increased
to 45. Through the 3-year duration of
the project, a total of 100 thousand
people, aged 15-25, coming from underprivileged
families, are expected to gain basic
computer training.
This year, the project will pay greater
attention to the training of female youth.
Last year, of the total trainees, with
an age average of 19, 48% were female.
For more information: http://www.undp.org.tr/undp/EmpowermentOfYouth.asp
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