Dariu Tech Clubs

In Dariu Tech Clubs, schools become local innovation hubs. Young people work in teams on their own AI and automation projects, tackling real problems in their communities — from education to agriculture to health. They design, build, and present their solutions themselves, guided by trained facilitators.

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From twelve clubs to 232 — and counting

We started in 2019 with twelve clubs: after-school workshops for children and young people aged 9 to 15 in rural regions. Today there are 232 — 150 in Vietnam, 56 in Bhutan, 9 each in Cambodia and Laos, and 8 in Kenya. In 2025 alone, 4,284 young people developed 798 new projects in these clubs; since the start, that adds up to 1,568 solutions to real problems. Our next milestone: 300 clubs by 2030, across Asia and Africa.

From foundations to first project

Before project work begins, participants learn the essentials: coding with Scratch and Python, first AI concepts, and working with Micro:bit and similar tools. They then go deeper in areas such as finance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. In the club, they build on this foundation — from first prototype to finished application.

Where talent takes shape

The clubs are more than places to learn. They are talent forges: participants have already won over 50 prizes at national and international competitions. In 2025, a project from Quang Tri province in Vietnam — a self-driving wheelchair for people with ALS — took fourth place at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in the USA.

Digital entrepreneurship: from project to business idea

Each year, we select around 250 of the most successful participants for our Digital Entrepreneurship programme. Volunteer mentors from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, and Qualcomm coach them intensively, with the goal of competing in business plan competitions. We developed the curriculum ourselves; several universities in Vietnam have since adopted it for their students.

Open to the community

The Tech Clubs don’t stay behind school walls. They open up beyond the student body — the local community is welcome too. Schools become places where digital skills are visible and shared.

Built to scale — and to let go

We run each Dariu Tech Club for a maximum of three years, financed through a blended model of local and international funding. Then we hand over responsibility to the local schools. What remains is not dependency, but a structure that carries on by itself.

Code Club Projects

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.

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