We greatly appreciate your ongoing educational support for students in Sierra Leone.  The hardware & networking students recently had a practical. Prior to the practical, they had been practicing how to install an operating system on a virtual machine.  For the practical, the students were set up in teams and had to open the system units and remove the faulty hard drive and the old CMOS battery and then replace both with newer units that were purchased thanks in part to generous donors like you.

Currently, there are 85 students attending computer classes at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer Lab. There will also be two more classes added in the next month for Hardware and Networking and for the Microsoft Office package. The students are at varying levels in their computer training, which includes Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

The Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) computer lab currently has 72 students taking classes.  There are 3 different batches of students at various levels in their computer training, which include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Classes are set up so that everyone has access to their own computer and are available at varying times and days depending on the group each student is in.

We are super excited to report that computer training has started a new computer lab.   

This computer lab is located at the Kamakwie Wesleyan School, in Kamakwie. Kamakwie is approximately 168 miles from Freetown (the capital city), population (around 8000). Many youths in this community have never had access to any computer training - making this an ideal location for this intervention.

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support for the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to you, more youths and young adults are getting the computer training they need for success in today's technology-driven environment. There are currently 79 students attending computer training at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer lab.  There are currently four different groups taking computer classes at DASL Computer Lab.

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support for the future leaders in Sierra Leone. Thanks to you, more youths and young adults are getting the computer training they need for success in today's technology-driven environment.  The full computer course takes 6 months and in October twenty-five students received certificates of completion.  Among them, there were 16 young men and 9 young women ranging from senior secondary school to young adults.

On August 30th the Develop Africa Sierra Leone Computer Lab received twenty-one new computers for the lab.  Twenty computers are for the students and one of the new computers is for the teacher.  This would not have been possible without generous supporters like you!

Computer networking and hardware courses are becoming increasingly popular in universities, polytechnical institutions, postsecondary colleges, and private training institutions worldwide because of the high demand for people with computer networking and hardware skills. The DASL Computer Lab is now offering a computer hardware & networking course. The learning-by-doing approach is an essential component in courses on computer networking and hardware fundamentals.

Thanks to generous donors, more youths and young adults in Sierra Leone are getting the computer training they need for success in today's technology-driven environment.

There are currently 49 students attending computer training at the Develop Africa Sierra Leone (DASL) Computer lab.  The current computer classes at DASL Computer Lab have three classes. One class is covering Microsoft Excel, one class is covering Microsoft PowerPoint and one class is learning Microsoft Access.