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As part of governments' initiative to place ICT at the centre of national development, the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), is to train 150 teachers who will be instructors to assist school children in Asankragua in the Amenfi Municipality to develop and sharpen their IT skills.

Speaking at the launch of the “Coding For Kids” programme at Asankragua on Wednesday, the administrator of GIFEC, emphasized that training the kids to develop coding, programming and relevant IT skills would equip the kids to be organized, intelligent and build a strong mental foundation to excel in the future.

He also added that the program was launched in the Asankragu community as part of GIFEC’s aim is to provide universal access to e-learning and other digital services.

At the launching, the Municipal Chief Executive of the Amenfi West Municipality, Hon George Agyiri expressed his gratitude to GIFEC and the Ministry of Communication for selecting the Municipality to be a part of Government’s smart community project, adding that through the project, about 18 communities in the municipality now has access to telephone network.

The acting Chief of Asankrangwa, Nana Kwasi Addae, who was optimistic that the community stands to benefit immensely from the project also thanked the CEO of GIFEC for remembering the community in which he comes from.

The “Coding For Kids’’ project is an initiative by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) to equip children in rural and peri-urban communities with coding skills to enable them take advantage of the numerous opportunities within the Digital Space.

Four thousand five hundred school children in the Amenfi west municipality will benefit from the project,the first phase of the coding for kids projects are on going in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and western regions.