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THE AJIRA ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAM

By Arnold Makumba The Ministry of ICT with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation partnered to address the growing tide of unemployment amongst the youth in Kenya through the provision of online work training. Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) was selected as the implementing partner who engaged the African Center for Women and ICT (ACWICT) as the lead trainers for the one-month long program. The program targets to train at least 10, 000 youth in the country by equipping them with skills to pursue online work.   To achieve this number the Ministry opted to have the training run  simultaneously in five centers in the country.  The centers selected are Nairobi- Kenyatta University main campus, Mombasa- Kenyatta University, Mombasa Campus, Meru – The Cooperative University of Kenya, Nakuru—Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology (RVIST) Main Campus and Kisumu-Tom Mboya Labor College. This is a one-week residential training that runs for the whole month of June 2017.