Access to Technology and Education in Mexico

Hey! How are you? The last time you read about this project, we talk about there was no age for tech, well now we are going to talk about “the first time”… of course, the first time these guys learned how to code their first web page.

As you can remember at the RIA centers (Spanish acronym for Innovation and Learning Network) people, no matter their age, complement their formal education to be more competitive and innovative, we create opportunities in order to help them to improve their lives. This time we launched a special course for youth, so they can learn how to create simple web page for family business or new projects.

 The teenagers you see at these picture are part of big families, some of them go to school but also they are responsible of the family economic, this means they need more opportunities to stay at school and to help their parents to improve their revenues. The majority of the families have a small businesses but sometimes they do not know how to make them bigger, here it is where technology could be their best ally.

 The value of technology is not in the hardware or software, it is in the use that people give it to it. We decide to open a new course where youth could know how to take advantage of it so they can learn how to program their own first web page. 

At the class the facilitator taught them how to put text, images, color, sound, how to create a link in the page and how to program it to be online, this was easy because there are some free software at internet where people could easily access.

This is a big step for Fundación Proacceso and for communities, specially girls and women who becomen the support of their homes, we  empower them to break traditional paradigms. 

Thanks to this kind of initiatives, youth could improve their chances to stay at school and to help their parents, so parents do not need to migrate anywhere else and the teens stay away from the streets.

We need your support to make this project bigger so more people could have better lives in their own towns without the risk to be part the life crime. Help us to create more spaces for them.