• Model schools in marginalized areas that will serve as a training and outreach area to the community
• Beneficiary girls and young women will be equipped with digital skills required for participation and success in the 21st century.
• Increase future employability options due to added knowledge and skills
• Gain some functional programming skills that will help her to increase coding capabilities for the Cardano block chain
• Participate in the wider community at an early age and gain skills that will empower her economically giving hope to
• Give the girls and young women a voice and participate in discussions relevant to their issues both on a local and global platform and they gains skills on living safely online
• Learn from others and to dream big and to have the opportunity to realize her dreams as she learns to collaborate with others online and gets exposure

With the aim of making Cardano the block chain of choice in Africa it is important to do a lot of grassroot projects out of the comfort of cities and start adoption programs at an early an impressionable age. A project like this is seeding that will yield far reaching results over a long period of time.

The risks associated with far to reach and far flung areas is lack of electricity and connectivity. The institutions chosen has previously been supported with devices but an audit will indicate the level of risk and how to mitigate will be to navigate around challenges related to digital access. There may also be challenges with school closure dates that may impact project timing

May 2022: Ministry stakeholders County Director of Education, Sub county director of education engaged and sensitized about the project for access to learners

May 2022: Seven Schools in Laikipia West selected and engaged head teachers (Letters of project intentions sent to schools with acceptance of project from school head

May June 2022: Teachers onboarded and trained

May June 2022: Adequate devices set up and configured to support 400 learners

June July August 2022:Digital skills hybrid program conducted including gaming

June July Aug 2022: 20 Teachers support 400 girls and young women in 7 schools in Laikipia west

June July Aug 2022:400 girls and young women create digital stories about their lives

1 Digital Literacy Training for Students 1000

2 Functional programming skills for students 2000

3 Mathematics Remediation training with Khan academy 1000

2 Monthly Internet Connection for schools 1000

3 Wifi installation for schools 500

4 Trainers (Teachers) facilitation allowances and airtime 1000

5 Master trainer's facilitation allowances 1000

6 MoE monitor's allowances 500

7 Project manager 1500

8 E-learning system maintenance, support and security (system admin and web manager) 500

9 Plutus programmer 2000

9 Project admin Costs 1000

10 Project communication 1000

11 Local travels (Lead Trainer & Project Manager to schools for monitoring and support) 1000

KES 15,000

Anne is an education advisor ICT and has implemented a DfId funded project to bring devices to these communities for 6 years and is well aware of the challenges and the state of the schools<https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-gatende-a89791158/>

There is a team of at least 20 teachers and 10 Ministry of education stake holders in the area well acquainted with ICT integration led by Samuel

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-mwangi-8a854458/

Victor is an education technologist in Strathmore University, Kenya. He is a Ph.D candidate in Computer Science with a research interest in Security Monitoring in Industrial Control Systems. He is currently involved in the creation of digital learning content and configuration / administration of open source Learning Management Systems and School Management Systems. He is passionate about cyber-security and digital forensics, <https://www.linkedin.com/in/malombe/>

Antony is a Computer Technologist, focusing on Open Source solutions for corporate

enterprises.

Currently a system developer and corporate consultant at Aero

Dimensions Africa.

Member: Python Community, Nairobi Ruby Community(Nairuby),

Nairobi SharePoint User Group and Red Hat Developers community

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oantony/

Activities

March 2022 : Training Materials Development online and Workbooks

March 2022 : Project Inception - Ministry of Education (MoE) stakeholder engagement

March 2022: Project Inception - Engagement of Schools through MoE

March 2022 : Wi-Fi Internet Installation and setup

April 2022: Selection, Training and sensitization of teachers

April 2022: Setup and configuration of learners devices and user accounts for ease of access

May 2022 : Digital Literacy Training (DLT) for Girls (weekly sessions hybrid learning approach)

May 2022 : Teacher support and monitoring of learning activities

June 2022 :Presentation at a graduation event

June 2022 : Commissioning and Certification

June 2022 : Project close out: End of project reporting and handover to schools for sustainability

June 2022: Post project Monitoring and Lessons Learned

400 girls from marginalized areas equipped with digital skills to improve their life chances in the next 4 months.

The training aims at making them digital citizens whose actions, habits and use patterns that help them be respected, educated and protected at the same time making the world a better place.

This was submitted in fund 7 but was not funded