ICT Program

This project is our strategy for bridging this digital gap that exists between rural and urban schools. It aims to build the ICT capacity of rural teachers while providing computers and internet access to rural schools in Chipinge. It also aims to provide rural students access to technology with the objective of arming them with the twenty first century skills that will place them on a level playing field to better compete for jobs.

More than 75% of Zimbabwe’s 16 million population lives in the underserved rural areas where there is limited access to technology. Unlike urban schools which have computers and have integrated ICT in their curriculum, the majority of the rural schools are faced with a big challenge. They cannot effectively include ICT training in the curriculum because they don’t even have computers. Even though there are a few rural schools that offer computer training, the quality of education is very low due to lack of equipment. An example is Rimbi High school; the student-to-computer ratio is 1,200 students to 20 computers.