Vodafone Turkey Foundation Gave Coding Training To More Than 1,500 Children In Ordu

Vodafone Turkey Foundation continues its coding courses in Ordu as part of the project “Coding Tomorrow” organized in collaboration with Habitat Association, with the aim of raising generations ready for the digital tomorrow. During August, a total of 100 children were given coding training, which also included the children from families coming to collect hazelnuts in the Kestane Village of the Gülyalı District of Ordu. By this way, the project “Coding Tomorrow” has reached more than 1,500 children in Ordu and over 3,000 children in the Black Sea Region.

Operating with the objective to pioneer social change and development, Vodafone Turkey Foundation continues to give coding courses in the villages and districts of Ordu under the project “Coding Tomorrow” organized in collaboration with Habitat Association to raise generations ready for the digital tomorrow. During August, a total of 100 children aged 7-14 participated in the training given at Kestane Village Elementary School with the local support of the Gülyalı Municipality of Ordu. In the training, the children of Kestane Village residents and of families who came to Ordu to collect hazelnuts in the harvest season had an idea about programming, working to bring out their creativity. Accordingly, the project “Coding Tomorrow” has reached more than 1,500 children in Ordu and over 3,000 children in the Black Sea Region.

Vodafone Turkey Foundation Chairman Hasan Süel said:

“As Vodafone, we believe that we must support our children’s education for a better future. We want to raise a generation that produces, not one that consumes. To produce technology, it is necessary to learn coding, which is accepted as the language of the digital world. With our coding training, our children will have an idea about programming, work to bring out their creativity, create their own imaginary worlds, and generate their own games. Our project has turned into a kind of coding campaign. We are expanding our project throughout Turkey. In an effort to achieve equality of opportunity in education, we also offer this opportunity to the socioeconomically disadvantaged children who have difficulty in accessing coding training. Thanks to the training we organized in Kestane Village of Ordu, we are delighted to provide education to the children of families from Adana, Şanlıurfa, and Gaziantep who came to Gülyalı to collect hazelnuts. Instead of going to hazelnut orchards, these children came to the coding class and learned the language of technology. We will continue to expand our project.” 

Habitat Association Chairman Sezai Hazır stated:

“As Habitat Association, we have been carrying out activities in the development areas of social transformation and information for 20 years. We are a non-governmental organization working in the sustainable development field. With “CodingTomorrow” project, we desire to realize our knowledge-driven transformation through children. Knowing about coding is now as vital as being literate. As in all European countries, the biggest obstacle for adding encoding courses to the Turkish curriculum is the lack of qualified manpower to give them. In this regard, we train young people as part of our project so that they can deliver the knowledge they gain to children. We enabled children to have a harvest season that they would never forget in their lives during the training we organized with the local support of Gülyalı Municipality of Ordu and with the significant contributions of Ulaş Tepe, one of the youngest mayors of Turkey. We brought together the children of families coming from their own cities to collect hazelnuts, with technology and coding. We will continue to deliver technology and coding training to children through ‘Coding ‘ project.”

Target: Reaching 100,000 children

Children aged 7-14 are given coding training all around Turkey with the “Coding Tomorrow” project. Theoretical and practical training managed by volunteering instructors on the subjects such as introduction to programming, app development, story creation, and game development has reached more than 43,000 children from 60 cities in the last 3 years. The Vodafone Turkey Foundation aims to provide coding training to another 100,000 children in 81 cities over the next year. 

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