Remy Gakwaya is the founder of takenoLAB, an organization that teaches software engineering and digital skills to refugees and the host community in Malawi. The idea behind it is that these skills are transferable and can be applied to compete for online employment and support community technological development.
“My idea is to support knowledge so that this knowledge can help us today, tomorrow, or in the future,” says Gakwaya.
Dzaleka refugee camp is located some 70 km from Lilongwe and currently hosts about 28,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
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