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Sedzani Mashau, Mpho Tshikumbana, Lucy Mapaya and Phethani Mabasha pose for a photograph after the event.

Computer training free of charge

 

More than 100 youths and adults benefited from a free computer programme which was initiated as part of community building to equip those who could not pay for computer lessons.

Several elderly ladies who had no basic knowledge of computers also benefited from the programme and they said they would use the acquired skills at their work places. The programme is the brainchild of some youths in the Sinthumule and Kutama area, Future Youth Development Organisation Project, who started a village-based initiative and approached I Care and I Can Mabela Foundation, who provided brand new computers for the programme.
The project is fully registered as a non-profit organisation which aims to equip and develop rural communities. “We had many pupils who also did very well and were awarded certificates of achievement at the end of the programme,” said the project's head facilitator, Ronald Tshiovhe. “These courses serve as good preparation as the schools are moving from the pen-and-paper method to e-learning.”

Masithi and Partners Trading Projects do assessments, moderation and certification for the computer learners in this programme.

“We would not have made it without the generous assistance of I Care and I Can Mabela Foundation and Masithi and Partners Trading Projects,” he said. “We are glad that the two companies are still working with us in the new class of 200 learners who will start receiving lessons on 3 August.”

The Future Youth Development Organisation Project team said that the learners who graduated had demonstrated determination, respect and perseverance throughout the whole programme. “We want to thank all learners who were involved in the programme,” Tshiovhe said.
A resident of Magau village and a graduate, Tshilidzi Rasivhetshele, said he thanked God who instilled a sense of knowldege, strength and love in the hearts of the team which worked tirelessly in compiling and facilitating different courses.

“This programme really helped us a lot,” he said. “Some of us were just sitting at home doing nothing. Others were workers with low incomes who wanted to upgrade knowledge in computing but had no funds to do so. Now we all got that for free.” 

News - Date: 29 July 2015

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Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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