Sega Silicon Valley - Opening Ceremony of the Project

On the 15th of September Simba Friends Foundation organized an opening ceremony of the development aid project “Sega Community Empowering through IT education and eco-development” which is being implemented as a part of Sega Silicon Valley program, financed by the Foundation and Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The representatives of local and governmental administration, organizations and institutions which activities are focused on ICT issues participated in the ceremony. During the event we introduced Foundation’s activities and profile, Sega Silicon Valley program and plans for future. There were speeches of important guests and few-minutes animations prepared by pupils. After the first, official part of the ceremony two volunteers of the Foundation – Kasia Wnuk and Kasia Tadla organized plays and games for pupils from schools where the project is implemented. At the same time James Ofwona, Simba Friends Foundation Chairman with two Project Coordinators, Aleksandra Gutowska and Jose Njuki – Imwe Ngunjiri showed to the honorable guests the results of works, which aim at adapting the classrooms to computer laboratories.

We achieved one thing… now we are closer to the local community. Children don’t call us Mzungu (white person in Kiswahili) or Odiero (white person in Luo) any more but they use our names.