Center For Online and Digital Education

CODE leverages Local Technologies and Prints to provide top-notch Education Resources to Nomadic and Refugee Learners.

CODE champions Gender Equality and Inclusivity, ensuring Parity for Girls and Learners with Special Needs.

CODE broadens Access to Education to combat Poverty and Empower individuals and communities.

CODE facilitates Education Access for Home Learners, Mobile Schools, and Community Libraries, bolstering Adult Education and Lifelong Learning.

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Welcome to

Centre for Online and Digital Education (CODE)

The Centre for Online and Digital Education (CODE) is a non-profit organization based in Kenya, dedicated to empowering underserved nomadic and refugee families who have endured years of conflict, terrorism, and educational challenges. Our mission is to help these communities reclaim their educational future by providing access to quality education through various online and offline platforms, as well as hardware and human resources.

More About Us

Our Focus Areas

What We Offer

Learning Materials

CODE invests in e-Learning Platforms, Educational Apps, and Printed Materials for pastoral learners and their communities.

Edu-Tech

CODE taps into locally available technologies—mobile phones, tablets, and school-based computers—to increase educational reach to nomadic schools, mobile learning bases, and community education centers.

Inclusion

CODE implements inclusive education for girls, individuals with special needs, migrating families, and adults to systematically disrupt radicalization and end poverty.

Mentorship

CODE collaborates with local teachers to build self-esteem, resilience, and confidence through continuous professional development, counseling, and mentorship.

Statement

Northern Kenya, comprising of more than 300,000 km² in landmass and with a combined basic education learners population of tens of thousands, is vastly characterized widespread harsh environmental conditions, tribal clashes, religious extremism, terrorism, government neglect, and a resultant underdevelopment. Millions of children in ASALs are blocked from attaining their full potential in life by structural and social- cultural barriers to education. These barriers include; lack of teachers, insufficient teaching and learning materials, marginalization and neglect by authorities, and disruptions by violent extremism, terrorism and tribal clashes.

Why we intervene

A whole range of factors combine to prevent marginalized children from accessing education:

Normadism

Their constant pastoralist lifestyle involves migration and movement in search of water and pasture for their livestock.

Isolation

Their physical isolation and minimal social interaction with the larger society, as they live and operate in mostly inaccessible terrains.

Pastoral lifestyle

The critical role of children in their pastoral way of life makes parents and guardians reluctant to release them to participate in formal schooling.

Inadequate Infrastructure

Long distances to school, inadequate infrastructure, and poor conditions of existing nomadic schools contribute to barriers in accessing education for marginalized children.

Time management

The unsuitability of the formal school curriculum, time schedules, and calendar, which are tailored to meet the needs of the mainstream sedentary groups and ignore the special educational needs of nomadic peoples.

Insufficient Teachers

There is a shortage of teachers, exacerbated by many fleeing due to threats of terrorism, leading to a low level of required skills and competencies among the available teachers.

Our Intervention

To achieve the above objectives, CODE makes use of the following innovative approaches:

Continuous Professional Development

We provide trained, semi-trained, and untrained teachers with professional development and teaching resources to improve learner outcomes.

Psychological Support

We offer guidance and counseling services to support the learning community's well-being, reduce anxieties, and address long-term physical, psychological, social, and emotional needs.

Re-enlisting Displaced Teachers

We re-enlist displaced teachers back into the classroom using robust e-learning apps and other distance education tools.

Self-Learning Kits (SLKs)

Self-Learning Kits (SLKs) consist of textbooks, workbooks, stationery, and digital resources that we provide to individual learners to support their learning experiences both in and out of the classroom.

Our Sponsors/Donors