🥇Uniservitate Award 2024 winning experience
OVERVIEW
Students provide quality online education activities aimed at marginalized groups, especially from other African countries hosted in a refugee camp, helping them develop skills that foster self-reliance, knowledge of their rights and peaceful coexistence. It is developed in collaboration with the Nuffic and Tilburg University.
EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT
Dates: From: 2022 (august)
Continues
Context: Kenya is a host of refugees from its East African neighbours who need skills to make them relevant and become useful to their community while understanding their humanitarian rights.
Objectives: Solidarity action: To educate the marginalized members in the society; to offer hands-on experience and skills to accord them an opportunity to be self-reliant; to create just and peaceful co-existence among the communities.
Learning: To sensitize and educate the community members on a varied number of issues; to offer holistic and inclusive learning for the formation of an individual; to create just societies via the experiences; to integrate hands-on skills for personal growth.
Direct beneficiaries of the solidarity action: Youth between 18 and 30 years old who seek to transform their livelihood and their communities.
Type of service: Mixed/hybrid form
Fifty students and 10 professors participate in the project.
Main activities carried out by students: This programme offers a range of courses in community health, education, peace and justice, child rights and safe guarding, and entrepreneur skills.
Number of weekly hours that students dedicate to the project: 10 hours per week during 9 months.
Mandatory nature: Optional for all students.
Results:
A. Students: They have learnt self-help techniques to enable manage traumatic experiences and development of an online platform access with modules that targeted improving the community life in health, hygiene and community resilience, COVID-19, and peace and conflict resolution.
B. Community: Following this programme, most participants got job opportunities as community health promoters in the refugee camp, peace ambassadors and teachers who taught in the schools in the area.
Audiovisual material and further information:
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DATA SHEET
- Experience Title: Digital Innovative Skills Hub (DISH)
- Region: Africa
- Country: Kenya
- Institution: Tangaza University
- Department involved: Education and Arts, and Social Sciences
- SDG Theme: Human rights advocacy and reduction of inequalities (SDG 5 and 10, and GCE 1)
- Place of project implementation: Refugee camp called Kakuma, in Turkana County
- People responsible for the experience: Timothy Kabare and Reginald Nalugala
