Local business offers free computer classes
Local businessman Koffi Ahouantchessou (54) and his wife Valerie (45) have sponsored 22 students to a free computer software course.
The students are aged between 15 and 35 years.
Koffi says their aim is to empower people to complete the computer classes so they will have the necessary skills to find a job or start their own business.
The couple decided to open their business to the homeless and unemployed people in 2015 by providing free computer software courses.
“With all the crime in our town, the students will have something to help them find a job,” he says.
The free class runs from February to August, when the students receive their certificates.
Koffi says it is mostly practical training, and feels a computer is a communication method which can be used in the working environment.
Lecturer Johnboss Chinokoro (22) says they had two senior students Flora Mohlalo (51) and Esther Nxumalo (60) among the group who did exceptionally well.
The company donates a computer to one student as a gift and this year the lucky winner was Esther.
