Digital Literacy Programme
Empowering underprivileged adolescents and youths in digital literacy and IT skill
Enabling young people with computer literacy and digital skills to use technology is pivotal to bringing about positive changes in their lives in the 21st century. However, in rural areas, adolescents and youths often do not have access to computers, thus losing out on learning these vital skills and missing out on opportunities.
YouthInvest Foundation runs Digital Literacy Centres (DLC) for underprivileged youths from rural and urban areas to equip them with digital literacy and computer skills.
DLC Digital Literacy and Basic Computer Course covers
Basics of computer
MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
Use of the internet in day-to-day operations including finance, social media, accessing government schemes and benefits, etc.
Plans include offering other professional courses such as Desktop Publishing, Digital Marketing, and Tally Pro.
Impact
In 2021-22, YouthInvest trained 405 adolescents and youths from rural West Bengal and Jharkhand in digital literacy and basic IT skills.
In the West Bengal DLC, YouthInvest trained 166 youths in basic computer skills (MS Office, use of digital tools in daily life), many of whom come from backward class and poor families (graph below).
