Pan African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education - Goes to B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone
Digital Hope Greene (left) ( Jeanne Sauve 04 ), ITU Fellow 11 , Provides technology equipment for war amputee victims for the pilot phase of the B-Gifted Foundation ( Digital Hope) project supported by UN ITU in 2011 . The project continues to use telecommunication technology to give voices to amputees who faced challenges in being assimilated in an ever-growing telecom world. Greene envisioned that these technologies can bridge the digital and economic divide and amplify the voices of those who will not otherwise be heard. B-Gifted Founder demonstrates the use of new technologies to the war victims and shows the enormous power that technology will have in the lives of amputee victims of war, noting that these new technologies will weave a great deal of humanitarian concerns to their plight'. The beneficiaries themselves are on all fours helping to build their new ICT centre and being very happy to contribute their time and efforts in the ...