60 Graduate from YAI’s Computer Training Center
Sixty young people have successfully completed the first phase of YAI’s rural Computer Training Center program. The program,which was implemented in the port city of Buchanan in Liberia’s Grand Bassa County, gives 60 community students the opportunity to learn basic and intermediary computer skills.
YAI initiated the computer training program in the country at the request of the Grand Bassa Youth Caucus. The concept of a computer training program was essential to the growth of these students because Grand Bassa didn’t have any post high school institutions. Upon graduating from high school, the young people languished without opportunities. Having computer skills gives students a greater chance of being employed by one of several large companies in Grand Bassa. To date, eleven of the recent graduates have already obtained jobs.