9 Dezember 2024
The German ambassador visits new computer classrooms!
The German Ambassador to Rwanda, Heike Uta Dettmann, has visited the new IT classrooms at the TSS Juru vocational school in Bugesera.
With the financial support of the Schmitz Foundations, the Sustainable Villages Foundation was able to complete an extension to a vocational school with four classrooms. The building was constructed by a local construction company.
While the building's exterior follows the usual design of schools in Rwanda, the classes are individually and colourfully designed on the inside. The tables for the computers, each of which can accommodate five students, were designed by our architect Daniel Schmidt and made by a local company.
One of the classrooms was equipped with 30 laptops and another with 30 desktop computers and 22-inch screens. Both rooms have modern projectors. Students helped install the computers. The building and the computer rooms are used to set up two new three-year vocational training courses: Software Development and Computer Systems Architecture.
They are part of the strategy to establish an IT training ecosystem in the project area of the Sustainable Villages Foundation with a total of ten schools, in which IT instruction is provided throughout, from primary school to the end of secondary school, and students also have access to computers and the internet outside of class. University scholarships in the IT field can also be part of the programme.
The German Ambassador, Heike Uta Dettmann, visited the newly completed IT classrooms and discussed with students. The Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Sustainable Villages Foundation, solar entrepreneur Francine Munyaneza, as well as other representatives of the foundation, the vocational school and the Juru sector, also actively participated in the discussion.
A ‘Coding Club’ will be set up at TSS Juru from January 2025. In addition to regular classes, students will practice how to program. The mentors are students from the software development training centre ‘The Gym’ in Kigali. The Gym trains programmers to international standards.