Safaricom through Blaze is determined to end the plight of unemployment especially among the youths.
Blaze by Safaricom has rolled out Blaze Link, an E-learning platform that will empower the youth by offering them free online & digital skills, that they can hit the market with and become their own bosses.
Its colorful event @TU_Kenya where @SafaricomPLC will today launch Balze Link , an elearning platform that will empower the Youth by offering them free online skills. #BLAZElink pic.twitter.com/tDPU0NbaBG
— Newsroom (@MaudhuiHouse) July 17, 2019
MS Fawzia Ali, Safaricom’s head of consumer segments said that Blaze Link is targeting 1.3 Million youths in Kenya in the first year, which will be underpinned by high internet penetration and support from Safaricom’s partners who include global giants Google and IBM.
"We are targeting 1.3 million youths in #kenya in the first year, underpinned by high use of the internet and support from our partners who include @Google , @BrighterMonKE , Wezesha & IBM" – Fawzia Ali, Head of Consumer Segments @SafaricomPLC @BLAZEKenya pic.twitter.com/9qCjJdvtjy
— Newsroom (@MaudhuiHouse) July 17, 2019
“Young people who leverage this digital skills can go on to submit jobs at a world-class level on platforms like Fiverr.com, they can then get paid through the PayPal to MPESA Channel from anywhere in the country,” Said Charles Murito, Google’s Country Manager who was also present during the launch.
"Young people who leverage this digital skills go on to submit jobs at a world class level in platforms like fiver, they can then get paid through PayPal to #Mpesa from anywhere in the country" – Charles Murito @BLAZEKenya #BLAZElink pic.twitter.com/EcLHZg4vn5
— Newsroom (@MaudhuiHouse) July 17, 2019
MS Fawzia said that Blaze Link is guided by two of the seventeen UN SDG’s which include Quality education alongside Decent work and economic growth. She said that those SDG’s help to keep Safaricom honest in its quest to give back to the society in which it operates.
#BLAZElink will work as an aggregator to this digital skills and users can acess it by going to https://t.co/c1XdIARfQT – Fawzia Ali, @SafaricomPLC
— Newsroom (@MaudhuiHouse) July 17, 2019