- 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 Mild Undertaking continues to drive group progress and self-reliance via sustainable tasks worldwide
- Since 2012, Kia has established 19 hubs throughout 15 international locations, with 12 efficiently transferred to native authorities
Kia has established an IT schooling heart in Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire, below its Inexperienced Mild Undertaking (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 change into a Sustainable Mobility Options Supplier, GLP delivers a variety of applications and infrastructure to communities in want throughout sectors equivalent to financial system, schooling, healthcare, and surroundings, 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, Ladies, and Youngsters, 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 Crew at Kia.
This mission in Côte d’Ivoire expects to resolve restricted entry to IT schooling and infrastructure within the nation, improve IT expertise for youth, and cut back unemployment, in the end.
The middle’s curriculum features a six-month course, comprising 4 months of fundamental IT schooling 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 cellular IT schooling program to achieve younger individuals 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 international locations, together with Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Albania, and Vietnam, benefiting roughly one million individuals.
Kia has efficiently transferred operational authority for 12 hubs in 9 international locations, together with Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, to native governments and establishments, with plans to switch the remaining seven hubs after mission 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 below its mission to “contribute to a secure, free, and sustainable life for humanity.”
Notable tasks embody:
- Inexperienced Journey, a mission to boost mobility rights and allow individuals with disabilities to journey freely.
- Harmonium, a mission for supporting multicultural youth’s social integration
- Tidal Flat Vegetation Restoration, aimed toward defending coastal ecosystems by planting and finding out salt-tolerant vegetation.
- The Ocean Cleanup, a mission to gather and recycle marine waste plastics
