Over the past few months, the financial platform, KamPay has been working on developing a learning platform to equip the African youth with coding knowledge. 

Thanks to a collaboration with the Cudos Network, Kampay has now launched the “Coding Africa” program to empower the youth with relevant tech knowledge to give them brighter opportunities in the future. 

KamPay has positioned itself as a blockchain-based innovative financial platform with a payment system, a wallet and a lottery all designed for the wants and needs of Africans while Cudos is a network that connects blockchain developers to a global pool of computing power.

Through key partnerships (such as this one with Cudos), Kampay is looking to educate the youth to achieve an African economic revolution with low-fee crypto wallets and transactions, internet-less crypto capabilities and earning opportunities for participants. 

KamPay believes that knowledge is the only way to enact change sustainably so it has designed products incorporating learn-to-earn features to encourage students to keep investing time in their learning.

The first product from the partnership is a gamified program, developed alongside the Sharkcoders network of Coding Schools based in Portugal. Under this, children as young as 5 years get to learn about the building blocks of programming and coding. 

The coding courses are currently offered in English, Portuguese and French languages allowing them to pique the attention of local children in various African countries while also ensuring that the curriculum adjusts to their needs and is culturally relevant.

The process is highly interactive and creative allowing students also get early exposure to crypto and blockchain technology through financial rewards (in KamPay tokens) for completing more complex tasks and levelling up. 

The project takes flight with a pilot program at Loveworld International School in Nungua, Ghana. KamPay has organized a Coding Day that will give 200 students the opportunity to get into coding as the first users of the new learning platform. 

Cudos is supplying the school with laptops for the students to use to further their education on top of contributing to the Cudos network processing pool when not in use in order to generate income for the project’s long-term sustainability. 

Kudos Chief Marketing Officer, David Pugh-Jones commented on the project saying, “We share a devotion for sustainable tech development and economic empowerment of vulnerable communities. That is why we are absolutely thrilled to partner with Kampay to support the Coding Africa program.”

By providing such open-source access to blockchain technology, Pugh-Jones believes that this revolutionary movement will showcase the power of blockchain and Web3, in general, to empower and educate the next generation of young talent in Africa. 

Over the next few months, the partnership hopes to expand the program to other schools and countries in Africa with Zimbabwe as the next target. The initiative is meant to close the gap in technological access that Africans have historically experienced.