By Rene William Ngabo | Project Leader
Because of your contribution, young visually impaired in Rwanda are using computers and internet!
In 12 million people in Rwanda, 1/100 is visually impaired and many of them don't have a job. Youth with disabilities in Rwanda mostly visually impaired can access assistive devices while at school (special schools) but after finishing school it's not easy for them to access those devices. The assistive devices help them to access information for employment opportunities and use them in their daily activities.
Therefore, on 24th August 2019, Rwanda Assistive Technology Access (RATA) started its second phase of training for people with visual impairments on ICT under the project called: “Empower visually impaired for employment in Rwanda” funded by Globalgiving donors.
RATA is a local non -governmental organization in Rwanda registered under the law N0422/RGB/NGO/OC/07/2018 founded on 4th January 2018 with mission of ensuring accessible ICTs (Assistive technologies) for people with disabilities in Rwanda.
The training will take one month and a half, and 10 participants will be coming twice a week. So far, typing and text formatting have been good.
To all our donors, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your continued support which helps us to continue our services to the community.
Thank you so much!
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