By Bob Aston
Arid Lands Information Network
(ALIN) received Access to Learning Award by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation in 2011.The Award is given each
year by the foundation's Global Libraries initiative, the Access to Learning
Award (ATLA) recognizes the innovative efforts of public libraries or similar
organizations outside the United States to connect people to information
through free access to computers and the Internet.
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| Analysis of trainees by age group |
The Award enabled ALIN to start
free ICT training in all Maarifa Centres in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The training present opportunities
for marginalized rural communities to become ICT savvy. Training is open to
everyone, and has attracted a wide range of students including government
department workers, primary and secondary pupils and teachers, Form four
leavers, youths, farmers, school dropouts and local administrators among
others.
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| Analysis of trainees by occupation |
The packages
offered include Introduction to computer, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
PowerPoint, Internet and Email.
Since November 2012 Ng’arua Maarifa Centre
has trained two hundred and sixty eight (268) trainees. Male trainees are one
hundred and fifty (150) while their female counterparts are one hundred and
eighteen (118). Form four leavers consist of the highest number of trainees at
58 % while businessmen and women are the lowest at 9 %. The highest represented
age group is 19-25 years as they make up 62 % of the trainees while those above
60 years consist of less than 1 % of the total trainees.
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