Graphic design&code support/mentoring for young African students
Learning Lions
- Design
- Development Cooperation
- IT
- Mentoring, Sponsoring & Career Coaching
About the volunteering opportunity
Help us to develop a sustainable income perspective for young people in the countryside of rural Africa by training them as Fair Trade IT service providers in the areas of web development and graphic design. Our Lions (aka students) quickly learn concrete, tangible IT skills that they can sell in international markets. But we don't leave them alone, with our fair trade agency Digital Lions we offer them a stepping stone into their digital professional future.
Your Tasks
* Maintenance and expansion of our learning materials
* Evaluation of Lions training exercises
* Mentoring Lions in their training or when working on initial customer projects
* Optimisation of our internal processes
* Assistance in all other areas of the organisation, if needed and interested: Fundraising, marketing, project management, sales,
What's needed
If YOU....
- Have knowledge in programming, graphic design, animation, film or music
- want to use your skills to help others
- once a month (ideally three or more times)
- are able to supervise a small team of at least five bright young minds
- think positively and enjoy working in a team
- have no problem with simple living conditions
- are willing to experience a completely different culture on the other side of the world
THEN THIS COULD BE SOMETHING FOR YOU!
Time required
Important notice
There is also the possibility to work as a volunteer on site in Kenya, before or after the Remote Volunteering!
"You earn a living by what you earn, but you learn a life by what you give!"
Location
This project is location independent.
Learning Lions
Learning Lions is a non-profit organisation enabling young adults in impoverished rural areas of Eastern Africa to work, and to live a life full of opportunity while remaining in their home area.
The students are equipped with IT and media skills and are then encouraged to become entrepreneurs. Through selling digital services online they become self-sustaining and can even employ new cohorts of trainees.
In 2015 we started off in Turkana county, North Kenya, where traditional sources of income are extremely limited due to infertile soil and poor infrastructure.