Afrikindness is a charity dedicated to nurturing positive racial identity and social-emotional development in racially marginalized children and young people. They support families from African and ethnically diverse communities in Leeds. Their mission is to help these individuals reach their full potential. Run by passionate volunteers, Afrikindness offers impactful programs including parent training, children’s academies, and community engagement initiatives.
They have four collaborative workstreams:
- Education: Led by UK teachers, this stream creates inclusive content for schools, focusing on identity in children and young people.
- Parent Support: Conducts informative sessions, webinars, and daily drop-in support, equipping parents with positive parenting tools to support their children.
- Children’s Team: Supports social-emotional development through mentoring and training, empowering racially marginalized youth.
- Research: Bridges the gap between community and research, exploring racial identity, social profiling, neurodiversity, and mental health.
Afrikindness work in partnership with the Leeds African Community Trust, Winners Chapel and over 15 affiliated African and Caribbean community and other faith groups where they promote their projects to parents most in need of support.
Afrikindness’s digital inclusion offer positions digital inclusion as an enabler to improving outcomes for African families by embedding support for improved digital skills, confidence, and access across their programme. The organisation aims to remove the digital barriers that prevent many families – particularly those from African and ethnically diverse backgrounds – from fully participating in today’s digital society. Afrikindness have a particular interest in supporting online safety, linked with their mission to build safer communities, support parents, and improve outcomes for children and young people, particularly within communities that can be underserved by mainstream services.
“Afrikindness’s ultimate goal is to create a thriving community of digitally literate parents who can easily access and utilise digital resources. This will lead to thriving parents who have easy access to resources and information, better access to community support, and who feel less socially isolated.”
Afrikindness
The impact of digital exclusion
Afrikindness have gathered feedback from parents and community leaders indicating that many parents do not know how to use digital tools effectively, leading to challenges in accessing vital resources.
The parents and communities Afrikindness work with are digitally excluded in several ways:
- Limited access to devices: A significant number of parents do not have access to digital devices, making it difficult for them to participate in online activities or support their children’s digital education.
- Connectivity issues: Many households lack reliable internet access, further hindering their ability to engage with online services and resources.
- Lack of digital skills: Many parents struggle with basic digital tasks such as completing online forms, scanning QR codes, registering for events online, participating in webinars and online workshops, and navigating websites for resources like mental health support or GP registration.
- Lack of confidence in navigating misinformation and disinformation: Information often circulates through WhatsApp groups, faith networks, family groups, and diaspora communities. Messages shared by trusted contacts are rarely questioned. As a result, misinformation spreads quickly and is often believed.
Many of the families Afrikindness support also face wider challenges related to poverty, welfare, family responsibilities and settlement in the UK.
Taking an embedded, culturally responsive approach to supporting digital inclusion
Afrikindness delivers digital inclusion through a holistic, community-centred approach, recognising that digital skills development is most effective when combined with practical support that addresses wider social and economic challenges faced by families.
Digital inclusion is positioned as an enabler to outcomes that are meaningful for families
For many of the families Afrikindness supports, digital inclusion is rarely the most urgent issue faced. Parents are often focused on more immediate concerns, such as food poverty, managing household finances, ensuring their children attend and succeed at school, and addressing wider welfare and wellbeing needs. When engaging families with digital inclusion, Afrikindness speak to parents about how improved digital skills, access, and confidence will help them to do the things that are important to them. Putting digital inclusion into a meaningful context means parents and families are more likely to engage and participate.
“For the majority of the families we support, digital inclusion is not their most immediate need. Their immediate concern is, ‘How do I take care of my children? How do I put food on the table? How do I make sure that my children go to school? How do I make sure they do well?’
“That’s why we deliver digital skills in a way that helps parents address those real-life priorities, making digital inclusion meaningful and relevant to their everyday lives.
“Alongside our digital inclusion programme, we also support eligible families to access welfare support through initiatives such as the Household Support Fund (HSF), administered by Forum Central, as well as other available support schemes. Through our wider Community Empowerment Programme, we work holistically with parents on areas including neurodiversity, safeguarding, mental health, parenting and wellbeing.
“By supporting the whole family—not just their digital skills—we help build confident parents, resilient families and the nurturing homes every child deserves.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Digital inclusion is embedded across Afrikindness’s wider programme
The organisation has embedded digital inclusion into their existing support work, helping those with limited digital literacy or access to gain the skills and tools they need to engage meaningfully with technology.
Digital inclusion is now a key strand of Afrikindness’s Community Empowerment Programme for parents, caregivers, and community leaders. Afrikindness’s ‘Nourish and Empower’ project is focused on providing food vouchers to parents who rely on food banks, particularly during the summer holidays when food banks are often closed, and on equipping families with much-needed digital skills training to reduce digital exclusion. The organisation has also addressed digital exclusion via their Young People’s Leadership Academy which aims to develop social and emotional intelligence skills that help children thrive and develop into kind, well-rounded adults.
Accessible digital skills sessions in trusted spaces
Sessions are delivered in trusted local spaces such as Community Hubs in areas of the city that are convenient for local families. Workshops take a conversational, discussion-based learning method rather than formal classroom teaching, incorporating community languages to ensure accessibility for all families.
“It’s been a lovely atmosphere with kindness and no judgement, and I’ve made friends so we can all be better parents together and help each other.”
Learner, Afrikindness
Delivered by trainers and volunteers parents know and trust
At Afrikindness, digital skills support is delivered by trained facilitators and volunteers who are known to, and trusted by, the community. This approach helps to ensure participation, particularly for families who may not normally engage with formal training environments.
Formal digital skills courses are delivered by a skilled volunteer tutor who brings a wealth of experience, cultural understanding, and a community-centred approach to supporting learners. Afrikindness’s 10-week digital skills course is designed to support parents to build essential digital skills, boost confidence, and stay connected in an increasingly digital world. Sessions focus on practical skills that help people to overcome barriers preventing them from engaging fully with digital services and opportunities.
Afrikindness has also appointed Community Digital Coaches to provide hands-on support to participants in a language they understand, helping them overcome digital barriers, build confidence, and apply their learning in practical ways. Community Digital Coaches are members of the Afrikindness community who have attended digital skills training and are now ready to support others. Their day-to-day guidance ensures that learners receive personalised support tailored to their individual needs and digital goals.
“A Community Digital Coach is someone within the community, someone who has gone through the training, and is able to now coach parents beyond the more formal training sessions. We have Coaches who can support people in their own language, such as Arabic, so they can easily talk to and engage parents. The Coaches support drop-ins for those who need one-to-one support, or parents can call them directly when they need help with anything digital.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Encouraging parents to use Learn My Way to continue their learning at home
Afrikindness encourage parents to engage with online learning opportunities to continue their learning outside of the classroom.
As members of The National Digital Inclusion Network Afrikindness have access to Learn My Way, Good Things Foundation’s digital skills eLearning platform. Learn My Way modules are interactive and involve a lot of videos, so it is difficult for people to properly engage on a smartphone. If learners are interested in Learn My Way but don’t have a laptop at home, they can borrow one from Afrikindness.
“Learn My Way is a really useful tool for supporting people to continue their learning outside of formal learning sessions. One of our laptops is with a parent at the moment because she wants to work her way through all of the Learn My Way modules. Some of our parents with teenage children have mentioned that their children now sit with them, and they complete the Learn My Way modules together.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Improved access to digital equipment and connectivity
Due to lack of access to equipment Afrikindness initially held their workshops at Leeds City Council Community Hubs, making the most of desktop computers available to the public. While this partnership was appreciated, the organisation found that hosting workshops in spaces open to the public limited the organisation’s options in terms of delivery methods and when sessions could take place.
100% Digital Leeds supported Afrikindness to acquire a bank of 30 laptops via funding and donations:
- AWS and GIPSIL: Amazon Web Services (AWS) donated 35 laptops to Leeds VCSE GIPSIL, who were generous enough to distribute laptops through a number of partner organisations to people who needoed them to access employment and housing, including gifting five laptops to Afrikindness.
- Fujitsu: Fujitsu donated 15 reconditioned laptops as part of their social value commitment to Leeds City Council.
- UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF): 100% Digital Leeds awarded a grant via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to purchase a further 15 laptops and a lockable charging cabinet.
- Jangala: Jangala gave an indefinite loan of five ‘Get Box’ portable wifi solutions.
This support has enabled Afrikindness to expand their digital skills delivery across a wider range of community spaces, allowing the organisation much more flexibility.
“Having access to a bank of laptops has significantly increased our capacity to deliver digital inclusion support. We are now able to continue delivering structured digital skills training to parents, run more online and hybrid sessions, support families with practical, hands-on learning and reach participants who were previously unable to engage.
“The equipment has also helped us move from awareness to sustained engagement, allowing parents to practise what they learn in real time and build long-term confidence.
“The provision of digital equipment has not only improved access but has strengthened participation, learning outcomes, and our ability as an organisation to deliver meaningful and ongoing digital inclusion support within the community.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Afrikindness has also been supported to access laptops and Get Boxes for the families they support:
“The gift of a laptop has made a significant difference to the families we support. For many of our community of parents, this was their first access to a personal laptop, which has immediately reduced digital exclusion within their households. Parents who previously could not engage online are now able to participate in training sessions, access information, and build their digital confidence.
“Importantly, the impact has extended to their children. With access to devices, many young people are now able to engage with our educational platforms such as GCSEPod, which we provide to support their learning. This has strengthened learning at home and enabled parents to play a more active role in their children’s education.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Launch of the first 10-week Digital Inclusion Programme
In April 2026, Afrikindness proudly launched its first 10-Week Digital Inclusion Beginners Programme at the Reginald Centre, Leeds, marking an important milestone in their commitment to reducing digital exclusion within communities.
The programme attracted 15 parents and carers, who attended weekly sessions from April to July 2026 with enthusiasm and a genuine desire to improve their digital skills. What began as a classroom-based training programme quickly evolved into a supportive learning community, where participants gained confidence, shared experiences and encouraged one another throughout their digital journey.
Designed for complete beginners, the programme combined practical, hands-on learning with real-life digital tasks to ensure participants could confidently apply their new skills beyond the classroom. Each session included opportunities to practise using laptops and digital devices, access online services, create and manage email accounts, search the internet safely, complete online forms and build awareness of online safety, scams and cyber security.
To support continuous learning, participants completed a weekly learning check-in, allowing them to reflect on what they had learned, identify areas where they needed additional support and celebrate their progress. Alongside the formal training sessions, learners were encouraged to attend digital drop-in sessions facilitated by the community digital champion, where they received one-to-one guidance, practised newly acquired skills and built confidence at their own pace in a relaxed environment.
As part of the programme, every participant was enrolled onto Learn My Way, a nationally recognised online learning platform offering free digital skills courses. Learners used the platform to reinforce classroom learning, complete additional modules independently and continue practising essential digital skills between sessions, helping to strengthen their confidence and promote lifelong learning.
The programme concluded with a practical digital skills assessment, designed to give participants the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they had developed throughout the course. Rather than being an exam, the assessment focused on everyday digital tasks and enabled our trainers to understand each learner’s level of confidence, identify those ready to progress to the next stage of training and recognise anyone who would benefit from additional support before moving forward.
The successful completion of the Foundation Programme not only celebrated the achievements of the participants but also demonstrated the value of community-led digital inclusion, providing parents with the confidence, skills and support needed to participate more fully in an increasingly digital world.
“We just finished a 10-week Digital Inclusion Foundation course for parents, with brilliant feedback. They took a bit to warm up, but it turned into a great two-way conversation, with parents sharing their own stories and experiences that helped everything click.
“We also covered misinformation vs disinformation and how to stay safe from scams and hackers—really relevant given how much of these parents now navigate for their kids too. They engaged really well here, adding their own examples along the same lines.
“Overall, storytelling, real-life examples, and strong engagement from the parents made this a course that really landed.”
Amrjit Matharu, Digital Inclusion Lead Trainer, Afrikindness
Supporting improved digital skills and confidence with QFutures Community Fund
With the support of 100% Digital Leeds, Afrikindness are one of four charities in Leeds to secure funding via Leeds Community Foundation and Quickline’s QFutures Community Fund. This targeted funding is designed to support community organisations in Leeds and Bradford that work with children, young people, and families to develop digital skills and enhance employability. At the time of publishing, Afrikindness are beginning to deliver year two of this three-year project.
Embedding digital support into welfare provision
The grant has enabled Afrikindness to embed digital inclusion into their welfare provision. Afrikindness’s welfare provision helps families facing financial hardship and multiple vulnerabilities with essential support. Because the welfare provision is delivered by the organisation’s Community Digital Coaches, as well as providing immediate support in the form of food vouchers, they can also talk to families about how developing their digital skills and confidence will help them to access a wider range of services and improve their situation, and direct them to the organisation’s digital skills sessions.
Embedding digital skills support into the Community Empowerment Programme
The grant has also enabled Afrikindness to strengthen digital inclusion within African and minority communities in Leeds by delivering digital skills training, digital literacy education, and ongoing support to parents and families. The project supports increased confidence in using digital tools, improving access to online services, supporting children’s digital education, and promoting safe and informed online engagement.
The workshops formed part of Afrikindness’s Community Empowerment Programme. The programme offers training, mentoring, and leadership development for parents passionate about making a difference in their communities.
To support delivery, Afrikindness recruited two volunteers to strengthen project capacity, including a Volunteer Digital Support Lead and a Community Leader who is supporting outreach, engagement, and programme delivery within the community.
The first delivery round of the five-module digital skills programme supported 30 parents to develop the digital skills they need to thrive, from basic digital literacy to becoming confident, independent, and digitally skilled users.
As part of the project Afrikindness gifted laptops to a number of families unable to afford their own device, and the team continues to provide one-to-one support to ensure families benefit from digital access at home.
Across the sessions parents shared meaningful improvements in their digital confidence and everyday skills. Key benefits reported include increased confidence in using laptops, reduced fear, anxiety, and hesitation around technology, and greater motivation to continue practising and using digital tools effectively.
“With over 30 parents now actively participating, this five-module training is already boosting confidence, building digital skills, and helping families support their children’s learning. Strengthening parents’ digital skills directly strengthens children’s development, giving them better access to resources, safer online environments, and improved support at home.”
Parents are now increasingly supporting their children’s education by accessing GCSEPod, an online learning platform that Afrikindness offers to students. The training has helped parents gain confidence in using laptops and in their ability to support their children with schoolwork.
“Before the sessions, I was scared of even opening my laptop. Now I log in confidently, help my child find GCSEPod videos, and even use the internet safely. This training has changed my life, and I will still continue with the training.”
Learner, Afrikindness
Embedding digital skills support into the Young People’s Leadership Academy
Quickline also provided in-kind support, delivering a Teen Digital Skills Workshop. The workshop fed into Afrikindness’s Young People’s Leadership Academy which aims to develop social and emotional intelligence skills that help children thrive and develop into kind, well-rounded adults.
The session covered a range of subjects including cyberbullying, avoiding fake news and phishing, awareness of sharing information online safely, the importance of managing screen time, and digital jobs of the future.
Quickline also offered participants access to their virtual work experience portal, designed to help young people explore career opportunities, develop key skills, and gain valuable insights into different industries. The portal immerses users in five key departments at Quickline: Marketing, Human Resources, Engineering, Data, and IT. Each business area presents a series of practical challenges and real-world tasks designed to simulate the day-to-day responsibilities of professionals in that field.
“Afrikindness is proud to announce the successful delivery of a highly engaging and transformative Teen Digital Skills Workshop, facilitated by Connor Moore, Social Value Executive from Quickline Communications. The full-day session empowered young people with the knowledge, awareness, and confidence to navigate the digital world safely while exploring future career opportunities in the digital sector. The workshop was interactive, practical, and youth-focused, incorporating quizzes, group discussions, real-life scenarios, and open conversations. It was fantastic to see our teens actively engage, ask questions, and reflect on their digital habits and aspirations.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Tackling misinformation and disinformation with Connecting and Protecting Communities
Afrikindness were one of five community organisations to partner with 100% Digital Leeds on Connecting and Protecting Communities.
Financed by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), Connecting and Protecting Communities aims to give organisations the tools they need to support people and communities to develop the transferable skills needed to spot and be critical of misinformation and disinformation.
100% Digital Leeds partnered with Afrikindness to understand how to tailor media literacy messaging and learning delivery to resonate with, and be accessible and engaging for, families from African and ethnically diverse communities in Leeds. Afrikindness identified parents with whom they had existing trusted relationships to take part in the project, via their Community Empowerment Programme.
Afrikindness knows that their parents may be more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation, and it can have a deeper impact, due to:
- Language barriers and cultural interpretations of information.
- Lower trust in institutions.
- Reliance on peer networks.
Tackling misinformation and disinformation is a priority for Afrikindness as many of their families have been affected by online scams, harmful rumours, and culturally targeted false narratives.
For many parents across the Afrikindness community, information often circulates through WhatsApp groups, faith networks, and family and friend groups. Messages shared by these trusted contacts are rarely questioned.
“It is hard to challenge information or sources sometimes. We come from a different country, things are different back in Africa, we need to adapt and adjust to broaden our thinking and upskill ourselves, so we are more confident to identify misinformation and disinformation.”
Learner, Afrikindness
Parents have frequently approached the organisation after being scammed, children having behavioural challenges and being exposed to harmful online content, and panic caused by rumours spread online.
“Examples shared by participants included fake supermarket voucher links offering £100 rewards, COVID-19 ‘cure’ rumours and claims that vaccines are designed to harm certain communities, scam emails requesting payments or personal information, and impersonation messages from ‘friends’ requesting urgent money.
“Participants explained they often forwarded messages ‘to help others’ without realising the harm.”
As a result, Afrikindness is aware that misinformation can spread quickly and is often believed by many of their community. Without the skills to critically analyse information, parents may unknowingly share harmful content or become victims of scams.
Parents also expressed concerns around their children accessing misinformation and disinformation.
“We recognise that digital safety is now an essential part of modern safeguarding and parenting. Supporting families today requires more than providing access to devices. We need the skills ourselves. Our children are advanced online, we don’t know everything they know online, and we want to be confident in helping them, showing them and keeping them safe as well as ourselves”.
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Taking a train-the-trainer approach to tackling misinformation and disinformation
“The project shows that tackling misinformation and disinformation requires more than providing information. It requires trust, cultural understanding, and community engagement.”
Afrikindness adopted an interactive community learning approach to delivering the project. They chose to host their sessions at the Reginald Centre Community Hub in Chapeltown, a trusted location known to the parents. To increase confidence and create an informal, non-judgemental environment their sessions included opportunities for relationship building and peer-support.
To support continued participation, all participants received a laptop, headset, mouse, and laptop bag with vouchers. Afrikindness embedded digital skills support into the sessions, with exercises on laptops and desktop computers so parents could develop their digital skills and increase their confidence to navigate the internet throughout the course.
The programme ran over five weeks, with sessions covering the following topics:
- Introductory informal session
- Introduction to misinformation and disinformation
- Phishing and online scams
- Content types and responsible sharing
- Fake news and Artificial Intelligence
Afrikindness also hosted an additional parent-teen interactive learning session co-facilitated with young people using storytelling, videos, and quizzes. Young people helped parents identify fake content and explained online behaviours.
Afrikindness supported their members to share their own experiences by working together to complete group quizzes and navigating information together in pairs. This increased confidence and empathy and created a judgment-free environment with learners recognising ‘it could happen to any of us.
Many of Afrikindness’s learners had seen scams relating to Asda vouchers shared through WhatsApp groups and online. To many, the ‘vouchers’ appeared legitimate, and some learners had been scammed in this way in the past. Afrikindness used this scam as an example in an ‘identifying the red flags’ exercise to build learners’ skills and confidence in looking for signs of when something is a scam, reinforcing the message that ‘if it’s too good to be true, it probably is’.
Workshop outcomes
Afrikindness’s goal was to upskill parents to recognise misinformation and disinformation and to support them to pass on their learning to their children and share their knowledge to help them. This approach helped parents to feel more confident and have greater knowledge of which tools and resources are available to support them in staying safe online and protecting their children online.
“Participants are now more confident, more critical, and more cautious online. They have begun sharing learning within their communities, extending the project’s impact beyond the classroom. The programme has helped families move from passive users of information to critical thinkers and informed digital citizens.
“Feedback shows significant behavioural change. Participants reported pausing before sharing information, verifying online content, avoiding suspicious links, and teaching their children online safety practices. All participants independently delivered learning to other parents, demonstrating knowledge transfer within the community.”
“Before this training, I was afraid of using many online services because I had been scammed before. Now I know how to protect myself, check information properly, and help others avoid the mistakes I made. Receiving a laptop has allowed me to continue learning and support people in my community. I feel much more confident and connected.”
“I have learnt so much. I feel more empowered, peaceful and calm about the theme of misinformation and disinformation, to take my time and slow down to check something before I act.”
“I’ve learnt that if a scam text or misinformation comes to me online or through a message, I can break the chain of sharing by not passing it on if I am not 100% sure it is true. I will now pause, and fact check before I share.”
Learners, Afrikindness
100% Digital Leeds is using the insights gathered by Afrikindness and other delivery partners to develop the Connecting and Protecting Communities toolkit. This will be a co-produced bank of resources that organisations can use to teach online safety and media literacy, including tackling misinformation and disinformation. The resources will include session plans, case studies and examples of misinformation and disinformation that will resonate with a wide range of organisations and their learners. They will set out different approaches to embedding these discussions within existing services and digital inclusion interventions. The resources will enable other organisations to deliver meaningful digital inclusion interventions on the theme of misinformation and disinformation. The toolkit will be published later this year, on the Digital Inclusion Toolkit.
Advocating for the needs and experiences of minority ethnic families
In March 2026, 100% Digital Leeds invited Afrikindness to speak as part of their digital inclusion annual report to Leeds City Council’s Infrastructure, Investment, and Inclusive Growth Scrutiny Board.
“Taking our community voice into strategic spaces like the Scrutiny Board is incredibly important. It allows us to highlight the lived experiences behind the data. Families who are trying to do their best but lack the tools, confidence, or understanding to fully engage in the digital world. Digital inclusion is no longer optional; it is essential for safeguarding, education, and long-term life outcomes for our children.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO Afrikindness
Next steps
Developing digital skills courses to support parents with a range of skills levels
Afrikindness are continuing to develop their digital skills courses. After delivering their 10-week course to two cohorts the organisation has found parents join the course with a range of abilities, with some having foundational skills and some starting ‘from scratch’. They have also found some parents are interested in developing their digital skills to a more advanced level, looking for support with more complex digital platforms and issues such as cloud storage. As a result, Afrikindness are developing their digital skills training to include three 10-week courses at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
“Our next stage will be to kick start an ‘intermediate’ course with the parents who have attended our digital skills sessions to date, as a lot of our current group of parents want to take their learning further. We also have a waiting list for beginners, so will be delivering the existing course for a further, third cohort of parents.”
Bunmi Owolabi, CEO, Afrikindness
Overcoming challenges
Afrikindness are still looking for support in the following areas:
- Access to digital equipment: donations of new or professionally reconditioned digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. This will help Afrikindness gift devices to parents struggling to afford equipment for themselves and their children.
- Securing a permanent venue: securing a dedicated space in a community venue in the LS7, LS8, or LS9 area. A permanent space will help Afrikindness more easily and efficiently deliver digital skills workshops and one-to-one support.
- Additional resources and funding opportunities: access to more funding will help Afrikindness further expand on their digital inclusion offer to support more people, and to provide a wider range of support, meeting the varied needs of the community.
Case studies
Mrs A
“Mrs. A is a parent and community member from Leeds who joined Afrikindness’s Digital Skills and Misinformation Awareness Programme after experiencing several challenges online. Prior to joining the programme, she had limited confidence using digital platforms and had previously fallen victim to online scams and misleading information shared through social media and messaging platforms. These experiences left her feeling anxious about using digital technology and uncertain about which online information sources could be trusted.
“Mrs. A enrolled in the six-week training programme to improve her digital skills and better understand online safety, misinformation, and disinformation. Throughout the programme, she participated in interactive workshops covering topics such as identifying fake news, recognising scam tactics, protecting personal information online, and accessing trusted sources of information. She also developed practical digital skills that enabled her to engage more confidently with online services and learning opportunities.
“At the completion of the programme, Mrs. A received a laptop through the project, which further supported her ability to practise and apply her new skills at home. Since completing the training, she has become an active advocate within her community, sharing what she has learned with family members, friends, and other community groups.
“She now regularly encourages others to verify information before sharing it and helps raise awareness of common online scams and digital safety practices. The programme has not only increased her digital confidence but has also empowered her to become a trusted source of information within her community.”
Learn more about the Afrikindness Digital Inclusion Programme
Discover Afrikindness training programmes, community support, resources and opportunities to get involved at afrikindness.org/digital-inclusion or contact Afrikindness via email at info@afrikindness.org