PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY (PAPO)

PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY (PAPO) is a community non-profit organization which was established in 2014, but later legally registered under the laws and regulations of the Republic of Kenya by passionate members of the Mumias East sub county community in Kakamega county Kenya, who believed that through education, awareness and with collaborative effort poverty can be eliminated and be a thing of the past we are currently based and operate in Shianda Mumias, Kenya.We have a major mission To develop a safe, healthy and wealthy environment through Information, collaborative planning, community action, and policy advocacy. Since then PAPO has launched a number of projects, focusing on computer training especially to youth out of school so as to empower them with Digital competencies skills, sustainable food production enabling community members to increase food yields , health advocacy by doing ANTI JIGGER campaigns in communities and primary schools with an aim of reducing poverty & suffering and decreasing school dropouts and environmental conservation through planting of Environmental friendly trees to both help conserve environment and increase world forest cover.

We are seeking for volunteers who can help teach Digital Competency Skills to our community members

Due to COVID-19 pandemic very many employees in Kenya were sacked or have been advised to work remotely from home, very many students are now advised to do their academic assignments from home and since most of our target groups lack Digital skills proficiency, we decided to start a program called DIGITAL COMPETENCIES PROGRAM ( DCP) so as to empower our target groups which includes persons of all ages and gender both in and out of schools with skills that can help them cop with the CORONA Pandemic effects through either working online, working remotely ,studying online by using both internet and digital devices such as Smartphones, laptops, desktops projectors etc to work or study remotely. The program was developed by NGO MONDO from Estonia under the EUROPEAN DIGITAL COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK (DigComp) The program has 5 key elements namely

1. Information and Data literacy (understanding ones information needs and finding relevant digital content; storing, managing and organizing content)
2. communication and collaboration (communicating and collaborating digitally and managing ones digital identity and reputation)
3. digital content creation (creating and editing digital content)
4. Safety(protecting personal data and privacy in digital environments)
5. Problem solving( identifying and resolving problems,using digital tools to innovate)

The DIGITAL COMPETENCIES PROGRAM which we intent to spread to as many community members of Kakamega county in Kenya as possible was compost with input from experts from Tallinn Universitys School of Digital Technologies in collaboration with NGO Mondo.

in the month of June 2021 upto August 2021 NGO Mondo sent us 3 Volunteers from Estonia who helped us to initiate the Digital Competencies Program in our organization. But since their volunteer period expired we kindly seek to recruit more Volunteers from your noble Organization who can volunteer us so that we can continuously run our program.

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