[DCAD] Fwd: Request for support of our Mobile Digital Literacy Program In Uganda

Mon Oct 2 20:22:40 PDT 2023

May I request the members not to send such messages to this list, Please?

Best,

Dr. Muhammad Shabbir Awan,

Coordinator,

Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD),

Twitter:  <https://twitter.com/MShabbirPhD/> https://twitter.com/MShabbirPhD/

From: DCAD <dcad-bounces at lists.igf-dcad.org> On Behalf Of Masereka Jova
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 3:36 PM
To: Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability <DCAD at lists.igf-dcad.org>
Subject: [DCAD] Fwd: Request for support of our Mobile Digital Literacy Program In Uganda

Hello please, this is to request for $35000 to help us in our digital literacy training program for the youth, women, children including PWDs in the western region of Uganda that is already into existence but still lacking the digital literacy training tools and equipments 

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From: Masereka Jova <jovamasereka at gmail.com <mailto:jovamasereka at gmail.com> >
Date: Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: Request for support of our Mobile Digital Literacy Program In Uganda
To: Internet Society Foundation <foundation at isocfoundation.org <mailto:foundation at isocfoundation.org> >

This is to request for the assistance of $35000 from digital lovers meant for helping us to spear head our voluntary mobile digital literacy training program for the youth,women and children that is ongoing in hard to reach areas of the western region of Uganda. The program is the ability to navigate, interpret information forms, contribute information to and communicate through the mobile internet and to orient themselves in the space if the internet of things and orgmented reality. This program goes beyond techinical know how referring to the knowledge and skills with attitudes that allows both children,women and youth to both be safe and get empowered in an increasingly digitalisational world. This encompasses their play, participation, socialization, searching and learning through digital technologies.

We have realized how digitalisational fluency have major roles to play in achieving gender equality, enabling catalyzed communication and networking on the global scale with the ubiquitous nature of digital techinology as away of bringing gaps and access to digital resources as well as knowing how especially to rural women,youth, children including PWDs which can be ensured if we join efforts in providing the necessary digitalisational tools and equipments for these community members to acquire digital literacy skills for improved self reliance and sustainability in Uganda.

Following this program, over 500 youth,women and children including PWDs have acquired practical digitalisational knowledge and skills this year through practical trainings which has been through hiring of laptops, and collecting of some other people's smartphones for trainings.

Importance of the program:

Digital Litrancy program for the women,youth, children including PWDs has relatively led to creativity, develop critical thinking and mad the trainees better at problem solving. Further more, knowledge and skills of digitalisational tools such as tablets, smart boards, laptops which have empowered them and provided them with asafe and connected environment

Challenges:

Hiring of the training digitalisational tools is so expensive  for us to meet it's costs as individuals who have amission of providing the necessary digital basic knowledge and skills to the youth,women, children including PWDs in uganda for them to fit into the digital world of tomorrow and today

Way forward:

Fundraising of $35000  has started for providing the necessary digital literacy tools and equipments of the program in Uganda.

The community members have provided free land for the sites of internet digital literacy training hubs in five districts of the western region of Uganda for their children, women,youth including PWDs to attain digitalisational knowledge and skills from.

Conclusively, we kindly seek for the support of 35000$  from all organisation who have amission in the digital world for enabling us to meet our digitalisational mission too as visionary digital lovers under internet society.

Find our  programs picture from the fields below.

Regards

Masereka Jova

Centenery Bank A/N: 3203306902 (For Programs help)

+256789715570(Whatsap)

jovamasereka at gmail.com <mailto:jovamasereka at gmail.com> 

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