Craft Silicon is offering digital skills to youths in Kibera with the support of its unique mobile ICT classroom. 

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The main objective of the program is to provide slum children from remote households with the opportunity to increase their digital literacy and thus gaining a wider range of opportunities that will eventually make them competitive in the labor market.

The mobile lab is harbored in a 72-seater bus where the interior is furnished with 64 chairs and 32 reading tables, each with a desktop computer. 

Besides the monitors, the laboratory also contains specialised servers, education courseware, Internet connectivity, printers, and scanners. 

All of its technology is powered by the photovoltaic cells placed in the roof board of the vehicle.

According to Craft Silicon Foundation CEO Budhabhatti Priya, this digital program is targetted at promoting digital literacy among the slum youths.

“The project’s main objective is to promote universal digital literacy among the youths in the slums and also enable them to apply computer skills to seize job opportunities that will enable them become self-reliant in life,” Priya says.

So far, the mobile lab has trained over 6,000 youths, most of them being girls from Kibera, Huruma and Mukuru slums in Nairobi.