Since 2002 The Dariu Foundation helps socially disadvantaged children in mostly rural areas in Vietnam to improve their chances through school and digital education. To make this possible, we built schoolhouses and kindergartens in remote areas and offered families scholarships and microcredits.
Starting 2012, we shifted our focus to teach basic coding and launched our Digital Literacy Initiative in 2019, to support under-served youth in rural areas and give them an equal chance to thrive in life, find employment and to be an engaged citizen. For them, it is almost impossible to develop digital skills – let alone to be recognized as a “talent”. There is no real infrastructure to provide digital literacy, nor anyone who could discover those who are gifted. Virtually all future learning and jobs will require some level of digital competences and skills. Constant technological change requires the lifelong development of competences and skills by all learners.
As of today, children age 9-15 have completed more than 1.5 million courses, 50% of them being girls.
