Brents Journey
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Its amazing how nature takes its course and how paternal instincts kick in. Ricky has created a very joyful and family orientated atmosphere in this particular class. When we do training with companies and do a Social Media strategy with them, we stress the importance of making time to update and engage on the various Social Media platforms. In a neighbourhood where youth believed joining a gang was part of life, Brent Williams fell into this trap which led to drug dealing and violence, before a simple prayer rescued him from suicide. He prayed with Brent and introduced him to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. For six months, Brent studied the Bible, learning how Jesus had given His life for him and how to live at a Christian. After discussions with Jukka about them wanting to start something similar in Mbeya we then decided to invite them to the Iringa Living Lab training to get a first hand experience of what the training was all about. After seeing what we were doing in Iringa they asked if we could then come to Mbeya and do similar training with members from their community. Gushit said that the living lab concept was much needed in the Mbeya area and it was something they have been discussing for a while now. The participants were ordinary local people who were brave enough to take part in this trainers’ training although it could easily be seen that many of them were very nervous. We also assured them that there was nothing to be nervous about even if it was there first time operating a computer. It was amazing to see how confident the participants grew after just 2 days of working on the computers and the various Social Media platforms. Unknowingly to them they were slowly becoming social media facilitators that would train many others in their community. After a week long training with this group it was now time for them to train up others. The idea was for them to now have a week long training with a group of new participants from the community. They managed to plan for the week and we stood back in amazement as they were running the workshop. They were so confident and took lots of pride in their respective roles.Their week long training was a great success and already they have dates for their next session of training. Within a couple of weeks so many people have been empowered and many more will be as the group continues their training sessions with the community. We are looking forward to see the great things that will come from this Living Lab who has now given hope to so many. After just one week, Wilbert has been introduced to basics of social media and gained confidence in the use of email, face book and blogging. After realizing that social media is after all for everyone, Wilbert straight away went back to his business and confidently started persuading his customers to join TIGO internet. TanzICT our partners and also the organisation we are doing consultancy work for here in Tanzania. Yesterday was an exciting day as it was the first day for the trainers to start training others, Brent being there only to assist if needed. Training sessions with Brent at KCC will still continue tomorrow and next week.