A non-governmental organisation (NGO), E-Health Academy (EHA), has graduated its 4th cohort of fellows who received free training and mentorships on software engineering in Kano.
Speaking during the graduation ceremony held on Friday, the senior manager, Software Engineering Unit and lead for the implementation of EHA Academy, Jamil Galadanci, said the 10-week intensive programme was offered to underprivileged youth to provide them with the skills and resources necessary to succeed in the technology industry.
She said, “The programme, offered at no cost, targeted high school students and young unemployed graduates from low-income communities and trained them in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The academy has so far graduated 155 students and some of them were recruited to work in the academy.
“The whole idea of this academy is to bridge the gap of software engineers that we have in the space. We have realised over the years that getting qualified software engineers that have the practical skills is always a challenge. That is why we came up with this academy.
“Our hope in the future is to have this getting bigger so that we can be able to have over 100 participants at a time considering the needs to have software engineers across Africa. Our biggest hope is to see those participants coming back as mentors coming back to be mentors just like we have started seeing now.”
