Building Africa's first no-code school in my country
Hello social hackers,
I've been on IH for almost a year now and just found about this group :)
Happy to be here, my name is Nadia and I was born in Rwanda.
After living abroad for 20 years I decided to move back.
I started showing a few kids (young adults to be honest) how to use no-code tools with an online course and they we're amazed.
So we're now starting a school in a physical location. The school is free and we have a majority of girls.
I think no-code is a great opportunity for Africans but also women (I'm both:-D), we have always been minorities in the tech space but no-code can change that🙂.
Would love to connect with social entrepreneurs to learn more about managing such projects.
I have volunteers that will help out but for it to benefit the largest number I'd like to keep it free forever.
It's mostly e-learning but for people without computers or internet at home, having a place to go to is crucial.
What a beautiful initiative Nadia :-) I know that @bramk runs a no-code MVP course. Perhaps he can help you out a bit.
it's a paid course, as explained I want to keep it free.
Nice initiative Nadia. @bentossell, no-code master, runs a no-code community. We can try to connect and see if he might help you somehow.
Would you mind sharing your slides?
Hi Leo,
Ben Tossell is great and I'm a big fan but Makerpad isn't exactly what I have in mind, I think their subscription is 600$/year. People in Africa are already poor 😅.
As I said, it's a free school and should remain free forever 😊
That's actually the thing about no-code, the early adopters have an advantage and can charge for people to access that knowledge.
I doubt anyone would pay for a WordPress tutorial today since you can find tons of them for free on youtube.
We have a weekly no-code expert session and these have been great, regular people giving some of their time to present a tool for FREE.
This was one of them two weeks ago 😊
https://youtu.be/uPggM4CLSVw
Paid communities might work in the West but not in these regions.
But thanks for the suggestion.
Sorry for not being clear. I mean he might know some volunteers and also help you somehow, giving some suggestions, latest trends, etc
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Hi Nadia! You had an amazing idea. If you need some help, I'll be happy to help you.
Thanks :)
I'll get in touch, the more the merrier :)
Goodluck with your project, as Leo already mentioned Ben Tossell is the guy to connect with for no-code tools.
This is very cool, do you have a website for it?
hi Rosie, working on the website this week :)
I'm wearing so many hats I hope to get volunteers on board in the coming week.
Right now it's been a combo of google slides and google sheets +loom.