- Kia to offer IT literacy, employment and entrepreneurship coaching to native youth in Côte d’Ivoire via the primary half of 2027
- Kia’s Inexperienced Gentle Challenge continues to drive neighborhood progress and self-reliance via sustainable tasks worldwide
- Since 2012, Kia has established 19 hubs throughout 15 nations, with 12 efficiently transferred to native authorities
Kia has established an IT training heart in Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire, beneath its Inexperienced Gentle Challenge (GLP) to offer important digital expertise and empower native youth. The middle will run IT coaching applications for native youth via June 2027.
Beneath Kia’s imaginative and prescient to grow to be a Sustainable Mobility Options Supplier, GLP delivers a spread of applications and infrastructure to communities in want throughout sectors similar to economic system, training, healthcare, and setting, with a deal with nurturing sustainable progress and self-reliance.
The occasion was attended by Moussa Diarrassouba, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Household, Girls, and Kids, Broba Bi Daniel, Deputy Mayor of Bingerville, Djan N’goran Patrice, Deputy Mayor of Béttié, Soojin Jeon, Consul of Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Côte d’Ivoire, and Eunju Lee, Head of Sustainability Administration Group at Kia.
This venture in Côte d’Ivoire expects to resolve restricted entry to IT training and infrastructure within the nation, improve IT expertise for youth, and scale back unemployment, in the end.
The middle’s curriculum features a six-month course, comprising 4 months of fundamental IT training adopted by two months of specialised coaching. Individuals will achieve sensible expertise in IT areas whereas additionally receiving coaching geared towards employment and entrepreneurship.
Moreover, Kia plans to implement a cell IT training program to succeed in younger folks within the distant area of Béttié, additional increasing entry to digital expertise.
Since its launch in 2012, GLP has established faculties, well being facilities, and vocational coaching amenities throughout 19 hubs in 15 nations, together with Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Albania, and Vietnam, benefiting roughly one million folks.
Kia has efficiently transferred operational authority for 12 hubs in 9 nations, together with Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, to native governments and establishments, with plans to switch the remaining seven hubs after venture completion.
Kia emphasised that GLP demonstrates the corporate’s dedication to empowering communities via strengthening self-reliance by establishing infrastructure. The corporate additionally reaffirmed its dedication to addressing urgent social points and dealing towards a sustainable future for the following technology.
Along with GLP, Kia is actively engaged in numerous social contribution initiatives beneath its mission to “contribute to a secure, free, and sustainable life for humanity.”
Notable tasks embody:
- Inexperienced Journey, a venture to boost mobility rights and allow folks with disabilities to journey freely.
- Harmonium, a venture for supporting multicultural youth’s social integration
- Tidal Flat Vegetation Restoration, geared toward defending coastal ecosystems by planting and finding out salt-tolerant vegetation.
- The Ocean Cleanup, a venture to gather and recycle marine waste plastics
