- Kia to offer IT literacy, employment and entrepreneurship coaching to native youth in Côte d’Ivoire by the primary half of 2027
- Kia’s Inexperienced Mild Challenge continues to drive neighborhood progress and self-reliance by sustainable initiatives 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 Mild Challenge (GLP) to offer important digital expertise and empower native youth. The middle will run IT coaching applications for native youth by June 2027.
Underneath 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 corresponding to financial system, training, 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 Staff at Kia.
This undertaking 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, finally.
The middle’s curriculum features a six-month course, comprising 4 months of fundamental IT training adopted by two months of specialised coaching. Contributors will acquire 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 1,000,000 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 undertaking completion.
Kia emphasised that GLP demonstrates the corporate’s dedication to empowering communities by 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 subsequent era.
Along with GLP, Kia is actively engaged in numerous social contribution initiatives beneath its mission to “contribute to a protected, free, and sustainable life for humanity.”
Notable initiatives embrace:
- Inexperienced Journey, a undertaking to reinforce mobility rights and allow folks with disabilities to journey freely.
- Harmonium, a undertaking for supporting multicultural youth’s social integration
- Tidal Flat Vegetation Restoration, aimed toward defending coastal ecosystems by planting and learning salt-tolerant vegetation.
- The Ocean Cleanup, a undertaking to gather and recycle marine waste plastics
