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Why I switched from food handouts to computer classes

By Nanjinia Wamuswa | 7yrs ago

NAIROBI, KENYA: In 2000, Priya Budhabhatti started a computer literacy programme to empower communities in slums areas in Nairobi. Now eight years down the line with 9,500 having trained and benefited, the programme has spread its wings to Uganda.

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