WAD to expand literacy training programme

WOMEN’S Action for Development (WAD), a local empowerment organisation, is preparing to expand its computer literacy training programme this year.

The WAD literacy programme has been run countrywide with specific focus on improving basic computer literacy, bridging the digital divide, enriching communities through technology and creating a skilled workforce. WAD Executive Director Veronica De Klerk briefed President Hifikepunye Pohamba at State House on Tuesday that the computer literacy programme achieved remarkable success with the graduation of about 4 000 individuals last year alone.’We are now in the process of planning, training trainers and generally preparing our programme for the year.We want to go into the regions and improve on what we did last year,’ said De Klerk.Taking the Hardap Region as an example, the WAD Chief also informed the president that about 65 per cent of those who went through the computer literacy programme in that part of the country have gone on to find formal employment in government and in the private sector while the rest are being encouraged to start their own businesses.De Klerk was at State house as part of a delegation of the Namibia Non-Governmental Organisation Forum (NANGOF), which is an umbrella network of NGOs in Namibia.NANGOF was founded in April 1991 to works towards the creation and sustenance of an enabling environment for NGOs, with an emphasis on democracy, poverty eradication and human rights promotion.NampaWAD Executive Director Veronica De Klerk briefed President Hifikepunye Pohamba at State House on Tuesday that the computer literacy programme achieved remarkable success with the graduation of about 4 000 individuals last year alone.’We are now in the process of planning, training trainers and generally preparing our programme for the year.We want to go into the regions and improve on what we did last year,’ said De Klerk.Taking the Hardap Region as an example, the WAD Chief also informed the president that about 65 per cent of those who went through the computer literacy programme in that part of the country have gone on to find formal employment in government and in the private sector while the rest are being encouraged to start their own businesses.De Klerk was at State house as part of a delegation of the Namibia Non-Governmental Organisation Forum (NANGOF), which is an umbrella network of NGOs in Namibia.NANGOF was founded in April 1991 to works towards the creation and sustenance of an enabling environment for NGOs, with an emphasis on democracy, poverty eradication and human rights promotion.Nampa