It’s World Information Society Day!
Saturday 17 May is a
day to recognise the importance in ALL of our lives of ICT and the internet,
and to think about closing the digital divide.
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| Students logging on for another class |
In rural Uganda, access to ICT and the internet is not an
everyday affair. In the developed world we now take digital connectivity for
granted, including on the move, but in Kamuli only a few weeks ago the city’s
internet access was cut off thanks to a truck on the outskirts of town bringing
down the single overhead cable that supplies it!
Despite such privations – and an intermittent power
supply – UDS continues to work to train young Ugandans in the computer skills
that are transforming lives.
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| Irene is now working and earning thanks to her ICT skills |
Our young students are learning skills and gaining
opportunities their parents never had. They are going out and getting jobs,
earning a wage, going to university even, thanks to the grounding in ICT that
UDS has given them.
Please help us to carry on and educate further
generations of young Ugandans. Click here to make a donation of £10 which could train a school child to use the computer and give them essential, life long skills.
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