{"id":46377,"date":"2022-08-16T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kepler-in-drive-to-increase-opportunities-for-women\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:54:32","slug":"kepler-in-drive-to-increase-opportunities-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kepler-in-drive-to-increase-opportunities-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler in drive to increase job opportunities for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development is part of initiatives meant to promote inclusive access to employment where Kepler seeks to increase the number of female employees from the current 34% to 50%. <\/p>\n<p>The plan was announced recently on Friday 12th August 2022 as Kepler organized \u2018Women Networking Event\u2019 which brought together women from public institutions, private sector and non-governmental organizations.  <\/p>\n<p>Participants of the event held in Kinyinya of Kigali City were taken through the organizational structure of Kepler, enlightened on its activities and available opportunities particularly for women.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Kayihunga, the Human Resource Manager at Kepler said that the College employs people from different countries and announced plan to increase the number of women. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering to our projections, we identified a gender gap at our college. Even though we don\u2019t have job offers currently, we have organized this event to remind women from different corners to be standby to tap into future opportunities after learning about Kepler and its activities,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n<p>Olive Mulinda, a participant of the event from a telecommunication company revealed that she was excited to learn from Kepler\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already knew the institution but had no idea about partners and support extended to different people. I am now well informed and ready to link up with the college for future opportunities,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Gaelle Ishimwe, another participant from a mining company expressed delight for linking up and exchanging ideas with experts with different backgrounds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe major purpose was to learn about Kepler\u2019s activities but we also learnt from other women\u2019s experiences. It is a big institution with interesting activities. The women\u2019s networking event is of critical significance,\u201d she noted. <\/p>\n<p>As the event draw to a close, a platform for participants was created to easily access information regarding available opportunities at Kepler.  <\/p>\n<p>Kepler began operations in Rwanda in 2004 as Orphans of Rwanda and later changed its name to Generation Rwanda in 2008. It used to help brilliant children from vulnerable families to attend higher education at institutions operating inside the country.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, it launched partnership with Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) from the United States of America (USA) where students have been attending online classes.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Kepler inaugurated a branch in Kiziba refugee camp in Western province with a view to help Congolese refugees access higher education.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Kepler unveiled partnership with Rwanda Polytechnic for a program meant to equip graduates with soft skills polishing their competences at the labour market. The program was also launched at Kepler\u2019s campus in Ethiopia.   <\/p>\n<p>In April 2022, Kepler College was accredited as a fully-fledged higher education institution in Rwanda to offer project management degree.  <\/p>\n<p>30% of 662 graduates from Kepler come from vulnerable families. The college targets to have enrolled 25,000 students by 2025. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43684 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0074-9221d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43685 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a9988-dc765.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43686 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a9993-ef6b1.jpg\" alt=\"The event was a good opportunity to build new connections. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43687 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a9996-39142.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43688 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a9997-9cd8b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43676 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0005-bf7a5.jpg\" alt=\"Groups of discussions were organized depending on participants&#039; areas of interests.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43677 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0017-2-e2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43678 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0023-34235.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43679 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0026-dcfcd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43680 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0048-14050.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43681 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0049-5e631.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Kayihunga, the Human Resource Manager at Kepler said that the College is committed to promote gender balance.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43682 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0054-1981d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43683 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a0065-75a74.jpg\" alt=\"Participants filling forms to get updates through a platform created during the event.   \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The management of Kepler College in Rwanda has announced a plan to provide new job opportunities for women in a bid to enhance gender balance at work.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46377"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46377"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}