Tunapanda Institute

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Tunapanda Institute
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legal form Private Foundation (United States)
founding 2013
Seat Olympic Estate,
Kibera , Nairobi , Kenya
Action space East Africa
Website www.tunapanda.org

The Tunapanda Institute (German: Tunapanda Institute, from Swahili "we grow") is a non-governmental organization operating in East Africa that is registered in the United States of America . With the aim of training disadvantaged young people, various free courses in the field of technology, design and entrepreneurship are offered to increase the chance of graduates on the job market. In three-month practical courses, ICT knowledge and soft skills are imparted , which is a preparation for the changing local and global working conditions. Some of the graduates will then be trained as trainers in order to teach in the main office in Kibera or to spread the idea of ​​the Tunapanda Institute in the region.

history

The institute was founded in 2013 by the brothers Jay and Mick Larson , initially with the aim of "education on a hard drive". They then downloaded open source software for courses in programming and for foreign languages ​​and added Wikipedia articles, which they distributed on CDs to various schools.

After this first step, the first own courses were developed and made available to teachers.

In the history of the institute to date, over 300 students have been trained (as of Jan. 2019).

TunapandaNET

The TunapandaNET was designed in 2015 to give young people who have no connection to the Internet access to the SWAG learning platform and thus to provide them with learning materials. The network operates as an intranet and should therefore generate significantly less costs than regular Internet services. In 2018 it was decided to expand the original four network elements by ten more.

Kibera Aeronautics and Space Academy

At the end of 2018, Tunapanda started the Kibera Aeronautics and Space Academy ( KASA ) with the aim of getting teenagers and young adults excited about science and technology. In nine space-related small courses, disadvantaged people from Kibera and other regions should learn practical skills for their future lives. In the long term, a training system is to be installed with which the participants can be prepared for technological professions based on the model of the German dual training and then placed with employers.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Inspiring young people in Kenya's Kibera slum | DW | January 17, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019 (UK English).
  2. ↑ OpenIDEO - How might we expand economic opportunities for youth in East Africa? - Tunapanda - P2P entrepreneurship training and business development. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Catchafire. Accessed February 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Coding helps people escape poverty in Kibera - Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Our Staff - Hope For Ariang. Retrieved February 1, 2019 (American English).
  6. ^ Digital Kenya . 2017, doi : 10.1057 / 978-1-137-57878-5 ( springer.com [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  7. ↑ About Tunapanda Institute. Retrieved February 1, 2019 (American English).
  8. ↑ Tunapanda Institute. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ NDEMO: Turkana's young people are not waiting for the oil. Accessed February 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Josephine Miliza: TunapandaNET Community Network. In: Tunapanda Institute. April 16, 2018, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  11. ^ Community networks bring education online in Kibera, Kenya. June 22, 2017, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ TunapandaNET Paves the Way for Kenya to Connect the Underserved. In: Internet Society. June 19, 2018, Retrieved February 1, 2019 (American English).
  13. ^ Empowering society with technology. In: The East African Business Times. April 8, 2019, Retrieved May 2, 2019 (American English).
  14. ↑ Technology - KidKreative. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .