Hour of Code brings hope to youths
DIEPSLOOT - THE non-governmental organisation, Hour of Code, is rolling out a national computer training skills campaign.
Hour of Code started operating in 2009 in Diepsloot where they equipped 5 000 youth with computer skills for free. Spokesman of the organisation, Marlin Madondo, announced that they were now rolling out a national programme.
“We have been concentrating in Diepsloot and other townships, but we are now active throughout South Africa,” he said.
Hour of Code will launch the national programme at Southern Sun Hotel on 13 June.
The IT programmes are already running at Diepsloot Combined and Rabosotho Combined schools. He added that the objective is to equip the youth with design, coding and basic computer skills.
“The South African education system currently does not actively promote innovation and technology at a young age and this greatly limits the potential of our children to find employment in an ever-increasing ICT skills industry,” said Madondo.
