Northern Kenya University(NORKU) Initiative

In line with its vision, the Generation for Change has incessantly advocated for improving the quality and access to Education in East Africa region. In this day and age, the link between good education and technology is inextricably linked. As the world spins with information overload due to overbearing technology and the exquisite consumption of internet, there are places in the Globe where technology has not touched yet. One such place is North Eastern Kenya.

In the past, the Generation for Change has provided over 4000 solar powered AlphaSmart laptops to students in the region. Many of these AlphaSmarts are intended to expand basic computing skills such as keyboarding and other office application. Nonetheless, their limited capability to connect to the internet has curtailed a full experience of technology in the region.

In a shift to take the Utility of technology in the region to the next level, the GCG is establishing a state of the art computer learning center as an entrance point to the world of technology for students and communities in the Northern Kenya region. The organization is also partnering with some select schools and community based organizations (CBOs) to help promote technology and internet connectivity. The GCG is donating laptops to the CBOs and the partnering Schools

NORKU Initiative;

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Establishing an Academic Culture in Northern Kenya

Northern Kenya University Initiative, dubbed the NORKU Initiative, is a strategic initiative to plan, construct and implement a university in Northern Kenya. The initiative is voluntary and extends an invitation to all stakeholders, volunteers, donors, governments and people of goodwill to join this pioneering effort to promote higher learning in Northern Kenya. While the NORKU initiative is sponsored by Generation for Change and Growth (http://www.thegcg.org),/), the collective intellectual, physical, professional and monetary support of NORKU/GCG committees, foundations, institutions, communities and local leaders of Northern Kenya and individual volunteers have largely contributed to the ideas and planning of the university initiative. (PDF original -Downloadable)

Alphasmart for Africa

In Northern Kenya, computers and technology are something most students have only read about in books. That is bound to a big change. The Alphasmart Project for Africa has made a once remote possibility a very real thing. Now, in Northern Kenya students can touch, type and learn how to use computers…..to Read More click on this link:

Standard eight students in Hyuga Girls Primary School explore the keyboard of an Alphasmart Laptop.

In glasses, Dr. Ali Mahamud of Generation for Change

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Local Somalis help educate students in Minnesota, and Kenya (MPR by roseanne P)

Local Somalis help educate students in Minnesota, and Kenya (MPR by roseanne P, Minnesota Public Radio )

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Computer lab at Umat-al-Islam- Cultural Center, south MPls, pic courtesy of MPR