Project Details

YCDI Women In IT Mentoring Program


Description

This program Youth Can Do I.T. (YCDI) is a youth empowerment organization that uses technology and strengths based initiatives to develop and empower young people. This year the Founder and organizers of the organization started a Women In IT Mentoring program for females (grades 4th - 6th form) from several high schools and Universities in Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica. It is an exciting 1 year pilot program that aims to expose girls to the most versatile and fastest growing industry in the world and empower them to take a more active approach to their goals and dreams. The program provide these females with a networking community of support to which they can call on, and teach them recognize that they possess all the strengths and skills they need to progress.

Project website

http://ycdi.io


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C6. Enabling environment
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality

Coverage
  • Jamaica

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2018

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women

WSIS values promotion

This program Youth Can Do I.T. (YCDI) is a youth empowerment organization that uses technology and strengths based initiatives to develop and empower young people.


Entity name

Youth Can Do IT (YCDI)

Entity country—type

Jamaica International Organization

Entity website

http://ycdi.io