AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Refugees and Migrants
KEYWORDS
education, computer programming , refugees
COUNTRY
Netherlands
DESIGNED BY
Arshad Shamsi, Gijs Corstens, Daan Aerts, Iman Haghighirad
Hackyourfuture
WEBSITE
http://www.hackyourfuture.net/#/
HackYourFuture
An educational program that helps refugees in the Netherlands learn computer programming.
The world is becoming ever more digital, and we need people to build it. There is great demand for programmers worldwide and in the Netherlands alone the number of job positions for programmers increased by 28% in 2015. At the same time, we have been seeing an influx of refugees with great potential to Europe. Hack Your Future asks: Why not combine these facts into a great project that benefits all? Hack Your Future teaches refugees to become full-stack web developers. In other words, refugees learn how to work with the range of technologies required to develop a product for the web. They learn languages such as HTML/CSS, Javascript, Ruby, MongoDB and more. They also learn how to use web products like Pinterest, Twitter and voting apps, as well as developing their own ideas. So far, 20 of the graduates have been placed in jobs and internships with multiple companies all over the Netherlands.