ThinkSyria
Digital upskilling for Syrian youth: coding bootcamps that prepare 2,000 Syrian men and women for tech jobs, run with Youthink Academy of California.
Key results
- 2,000 Syrian men and women targeted
- 700 hours of in-person training
- Six months of career services after graduation
Youthink Academy of California and EPISA are providing digital skills training to 2,000 Syrian men and women, to boost their employment and help place them in tech jobs.
Youthink Academy provides licensed certificates from well-known brands: coding with Steve Wozniak’s WozU, entrepreneurship with Forbes School of Business & Technology, and leadership and personal development with Dale Carnegie.
Coding bootcamps are an intensive training model that started in Silicon Valley to supply software developers where tech talent is in demand. Participants from any background who are over 18 and hold a high-school diploma are trained through hands-on projects and become software developers in three months.
What participants receive
- Access to the Youthink online learning management system
- 700 hours of in-person training by qualified instructors
- Career-support training at the end of the bootcamp by a team of tech recruiters
- Six months of career services after graduation to support job placement
- Corporate engagement with local, regional and global tech companies that hire graduates
- Lifetime access to the learning platform and its updated modules and tools
- Access to Youthink’s physical facilities 24/7
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