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| Authored by: Sonya on Wednesday, March 30 2005 @ 04:56 PM CST |
I understand your concern - we are pressed with the ever-increasing need to address water and health problems in countries such as the ones in Sub-Saharan Africa. EWB has many projects in this area. There is, however, a strong conception that this needs to take place with the development of information technology to help improve access to education.
In this case, EWB is collecting computers for a programme to help out of school youth in the Philippines.
The Programme Rationale:
The Philippines faces an alarming youth issue: during the 1990s the out-of-school youth population tripled. The underprivileged youth aged 15 to 24 who are not employed nor in school is estimated at a startling 12 million (World Bank).
In 2002, the National Youth Commission identified an urgent need for these youth to have access to basic services, specifically for programs to help the out-of-school youth return to formal education or be engaged in non-formal vocational and livelihood-earning activities.
The organization on the frontline of delivering these programs is the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) of the Philippines Government, whose mandate is to protect and promote the social rights and welfare of the poor. EWB is working with the DSWD to help them modernize their youth social programming, in particular by adding computer centres and integrated livelihood training to their municipal offices. This program has been named Scala (Sharing Computer Access Locally and Abroad).
The Philippines is a distinctly appropriate country for creating a program involving modern communication technologies because of its location, language (English), high literacy rate and emerging IT sector. As such, computer literate graduates are expected to have marketable skills and be employable within their community.
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