Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), an international NGO in partnership with Business Development Centers has awarded certificates to the 80 participants trained at Gatenga, Kicukiro district.
DOT enables people to access and apply business information and communications technologies (ICT), to create education, economic and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Exclusively speaking to igihe.com, Emmanuel Nzeyimana, DOT Rwanda Program Manager noted, “the main issue of these trainings is to fight poverty but with the use of Information Technology.”
“Our intension is to empower women and the youth particularly with capacity to develop business skills because some of the business people we train have little knowledge to develop businesses and we want to reduce the problem,” he added.
Pierre Cerestine Ubitsemunda a father of four children says, “I have spent four years with the project of rearing rabbits and chicken but operating on a small space. After the training, I leant that, the place where I was working from was so small and now I have to widen my business because I feel I have all the skills due to the knowledge obtained here.”
Emanuel Munyentwari of ‘Business Agricole et Veterinaire’ who has spent 13 years in business from gatenga Sector kicukiro district noted, “I am a high school dropout and all these years I never knew how business can be expanded. So after the 1 month training together with my wife, we have managed to start up another project of samosa processing with the use of modern technology while using a machine that will produce over 8000 samosas per hour.”
He added that he got the idea with the use of internet research of which he studied during the training.
DOT has since trained 2000 people on empowerment, technology and business skills.
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