Last week, Outbox Hub, one of the leading hubs in Uganda, announced a partnership with Kenya’s Moringa School. Together they are running a 5-week full-time introduction to programming course.
“Outbox, in collaboration with Kenya based Moringa School - launched today the first in a series of coding boot camps focused on imparting industry relevant software engineering skills to young people,” part of the press release read.
According to Outbox, this partnership stemmed from noticing a shortage of relevant software developers in the country.
“It is through this work that Outbox noticed the severe shortage of industry relevant software development skills in the country not only for the startups in their community but also the various organizations both for-profit and nonprofit,” Outbox noted in the press release.
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The initiative, dubbed Outbox EDU, will see Outbox offer Moringa School’s technology training course through a five-week full-time computer science fundamentals course known as “Moringa Prep,” in June 2018. Moringa Prep covers the foundational concepts of all high-level programming languages.
Outbox expects to tap into Moringa’s experience in “developing and delivering industry-relevant technology education.”
“With this partnership, our young people will be able to tap into world-class learning and employment opportunities, thus improving the quality of our offering to potential software engineers in Uganda,” said Richard Zulu, CEO at Outbox.
“Our collaboration with Moringa School goes a long way in supporting our mission to grow inclusive communities that foster talent where we operate. We are very excited to be working with them in Uganda and tapping into a Pan-African network.”
While Audrey Cheng, a Co-founder, and CEO of Moringa School said that “this partnership will ensure we continue to provide access to our quality education programs to more individuals in other parts of the continent.”
Currently, there are various players plugged into the software and programming skills development industry across Africa. Though they don’t necessarily do the same thing, their roles and contribution more or less overlap each other. The most notable ones are Andela, MEST Africa, Moringa School.