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Safo Is a small town near Bamako, the capital city of the Republic of Mali. It is situated in the north-east of the country. The town is composed of rural areas and the village, where many of the people do not currently have access to computers or any kind of computer science training. Using computers is a great challenge for many of the town’s residents. This project is allowing the people in Safo and all nearby communities to learn more about computers and how to utilize them to improve their lives. Computer science training also increases residents’ economic possibilities that exist in the greater Safo area through computers use. The reason why I initiated the project is because the computer, particularly when people receive training on how to utilize it, is one the best means to communicate, to connect people one another, to get a good job and to help improve one’s daily activities. The Center is also teaching English language for students. That’s why the local U.S Embassy donated us some books for use to support C.F.I.S English Club. The goals of this club are following: Creating the union between the people who are living in the Safo community and nearby areas. Exchanging innovative ideas, developing cultural links between people, strengthening the links of brotherhood and friendship, reinforcing the understanding, learning, speaking and writing skills in English. People come to CFIS from fourteen nearby small villages, because Safo is the major town in the area where there is the communal town hall and market and it gathers all the necessary resources they may need. They come from small towns to Safo for receiving the CFIS services and activities such as: computer usage, emailing, phone unlocking and phones’ data reset, application installation, media: sounds, videos transferring, and general technology training. By bringing these types of classes to small towns such as Safo, the center helps increase economic possibilities and the potential of people in the community by helping acquire skills in order to advance in the technology field. As more and more jobs in Mali require the use of computer science skills, the demand for these computer science skills is always increasing. After completing computer classes from CFIS individuals gain desirable skills to pursue a career in the technology field. Thus, the lack of computer skills is the problem and challenge I am trying to address in my community.As a young leader in Safo, my vision is focused on how to end computer illiteracy in the Safo community through computer science classes, which in turn will increase economic potential for the population, connecting people by encouraging effective communication and help them make their dreams come true. In the future I hope to gain more problem-solving and leadership skills from the lessons learned from my endeavors and to make it a stronger center. I will use those skills, knowledge and professional experiences to improve myself, and explore a successful achievement. These skills would be used to bring new ideas to develop my project by helping the people of community acquire skills in order to advance in technology fields. I will adapt the skills learned to my activities to provide individuals desirable dream. A dream to end computer illiteracy in their community and believe that access to computer science should be available to those living in rural communities. Within ten years I will help my country address poverty by providing skills necessary to pursue a job in the technology fields. I will teach computer classes but also offer students free English Lessons. I will develop the use of information and communication technologies and support youth education through computers in developing rural community like Safo.

For solving computer science illiteracy in Safo community, CFIS project will improve education in Safo and the surrounding areas through establishing and equipping of Computer Science Training Center of Safo. The center empowers the youth in Safo rural community with computer educational system which will include knowledge in computer programming, desktop software’s use, technical skills in computer application installation and repairs. Through providing education in computer science to the town of Safo, CFIS aims to reduce computer science illiteracy. This education in computer science broadens the youths of Safo rural community’s career choices and integration. For CFIS, if computer science is going to be an essential component for the population of Safo, we must tackle the question to use teach it well. First we need to provide access and then practice it. CFIS project aims to train more 10,000 people from all ages within ten years in computer science. With a thousand rural students in Safo of young people who are currently denied the opportunity to engage with computer science in schools. So as a next step, CFIS argues to transform computer science classroom culture and teaching, with the CFIS being a bridge between computer literacy and schools.CFIS teaches and brings small, theoretical and practical computer science courses based on the essential ideas of computer science for the new beginners in the Safo community. We teach three different theoretical and practical computer programs to our participants including: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Spreadsheet and Microsoft PowerPoint. We demystify and bring the skills which are useful for anyone using computers today. We provide a general background on computers. Examples: what is a computer, what are the different types of computers, what is hardware, software, what is the internet, how to switch on and off a computer. For our computer science classes, no previous experience and skills are required. Our future plan is to keep the project alive. We will improve CFIS computer science center of Safo and expand the computer science technology project throughout the surrounding rural communities. In the future, we will create new digital applications which will be installed on Android Phones to promote computer science education. We will bring these types of digital applications creation project to the schools to teach computer science technology for pupils in those schools. CFIS’s mission is to address the digital divide in Safo. We do this through computer science education with the goal of increasing economic opportunity for all citizens regardless of their ability to use a computer.

Five-Year Project Goals:
End computer illiteracy in the Safo community through computer science classes
Increase economic potential for the population of Safo
Connect people by encouraging effective communication and helping them make their dreams come true.