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Code Clubs

We are running our Code Clubs as a “talent incubator”, identifying and nurturing talented individuals who are interested in coding and technology.

The Dariu Foundation has been delivering the Code Club project since 2019, providing low-cost technology access to code learning for rural children aged 9-15 and opening up opportunities for them to develop valuable skills and innovation, which can lead to better job prospects and a brighter future. 

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In the Code Clubs, children learn how to build technology-based projects using Scratch, Python, Micro:bit, and the like.

To date, we are running 162 Code Clubs, serving 3,000 students to ensure that girls and boys in remote, rural areas could learn the critical digital skills they need to build a better future, ensuring every child has an opportunity to become an active contributor to the global digital economy.

Digital entrepreneurship courses at Technical Colleges and Universities will complement the Coding Clubs and encourage students to transform their inventions into a business or freelance activity

The Impossible Project

„Make the impossible possible!“Our latest project was created upon the belief that anything is possible. The Impossible Project helps socially disadvantaged children in mostly rural areas in South East Asia to improve their chances through school and digital education.

For under-served youth in rural areas, 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.

This is why we call our initiative THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT. We want to make the impossible possible.

Our goal is to train 400’000+ students per year in basic digital skills, mainly coding at six progressive levels. Out of these, we will select roughly those 5’000 kids whom we recognize as the most talented ones to join our Code Clubs. The Code Clubs are one big talent-incubator, where they receive additional training – such as Financial Literacy, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and the like – and resources to develop projects, that will make it to national and international contests – where we have won 50+ awards up to date.

In a next step, 250 students are selected to enter our Entrepreneurship Courses. This program is guided by volunteering mentors from the industry, such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm and others, who are committed to provide intensive coaching, the goal being to participate in a Business Plan Contest. 

We have developed these curriculums ourselves, while several universities in Vietnam have adopted it for their students and will send their best teams to our Business Plan Contest to be held for the first time in 2023.

The culmination of the Impossible Project is when the top participants in the Business Plan Competition get the chance to be awarded seed money from the Dariu Foundation and its partners to build their own business and have a real chance to succeed in the digital world as startup entrepreneurs.

Making the impossible possible.

Contact Switzerland

Manuela Nieth
manuela@dariu.org

Contact Vietnam

Nguyen Van Hanh
hanh@dariu.vn


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