SCOOP iT Programme
We want to bring laptops, virtual classrooms and online one to one mentoring to the displaced youth living in Syria & Iraq.
The SCOOPiT programme was initially piloted in Bajed Kandala Camp, Iraqi Kurdistan in November 2019.
Artist Shane Sutton, while working in the camp on the SCOOP Art Programme that spring, conducted a survey among the students on what they wished to learn and what gaps could be filled in their academic education.
The young people vested an interest in learning IT skills, graphic design, sound design and programming. The also expressed the need to improve their english and school subjects.
Forging partnerships in Dublin with Dropbox, CoderDojo, NextRoll, St Patrick’s DCU, UCDVO and Ableton Live, SCOOP returned to the camp that November to roll out SCOOPiT.
Classes were delivered in situ by Shane in coding and Photoshop to 60 students. A workshop in Google Suite was facilitated online by volunteers in Google HQ, Dublin and online physics classes were delivered by a teacher in Erbil, 200 km from the camp.
In January 2020 two SCOOP Volunteers Dylan and Sarah spent the month continuing the programme reaching more young people and helped digitize the JHK clinic’s administration functions, moving away from a paper based system.
At the end of 2020 SCOOP is returning to BK2 to facilitate a late summer camp with volunteers in photography, illustration, art, design and mindfulness. Online grinds and classes will be taught in academic classes by volunteers in Ireland too.
After the summer camp there will be online classes delivered throughout the year by volunteer teachers in Ireland.
What can I do?
Employers
Do you have a CSR Programme?
Can your company donate laptops or any other form of hardware or software?
Can your employees donate time and skills to the online Mentorship Programme?
Can you clean and certify hard drives / wiped laptops?
Employees
Are you interested in joining the SCOOP iT Mentorship Programme and help impart your skills to teenagers living in Displacement Camps?
