During the last few weeks, we have been searching for a local person in Zanzibar to grow our team, and to support Salum, our local teacher. Among other things, this means writing posts for the blog on a regular basis, managing the daily business of the school, handling financial and organisational stuff, and much more. The basic idea was to separate the teaching from the organisational work, so Salum can fully concentrate on his job as a lecturer, while the other person in the team will care about everything else.
Out of the many people we personally know in Zanzibar, we decided to invite Hakimu, who is one of the students of the first class of 2010 and also a former student of the Zanzibits school of film and multimedia, to become the newest member of the Zanzicode team. During our stays in Zanzibar in 2008 and 2009, we got to know Hakimu as a sharp-minded, diligent and responsible person and we firmly believe that he is the right man for the job. Fortunately, Hakimu agreed to work together with us, so now we’re happy to welcome him as the newest member of the ever-growing Zanzicode team!
Now over to you, Hakimu, for a short introduction of yourself:
“I was born on the 5th of December in 1985 in a poor family looked after by Mr Kombo by whom I was named as Hakimu Kombo. I started schooling in 1993 in the village of Nungwi, just 42km away from Zanzibar town. In 2008, I finished my secondary education and joined the Zanzibits school for film and multimedia in the following year. Then I had a clear and precise decision to apply for the Zanzicode class of web development and I was lucky to learn, good!
I gained a lot of knowledge from Zanzicode school, and I am really happy and proud about it. It’s a great treasure to develop myself and to help support others. I will be very close and make sure the Zanzicode school is progressing further equipping the Zanzibar youths with latest IT and web development technologies to its best. It’s my responsibilty to prepare something like a report on how the class is going on and to update the Zanzicode blog to let followers know what is happening.
Zanzicode is a unique web programming school in Zanzibar that tries to uplift the web knowledge and web awareness of Zanzibar youths to current standards, something which has enabled me to work very independently in a modern way. A school such as Zanzicode is important because it’s specifically dealing with IT and web development, and it covers all what has to be learned. What I have experienced especially in Zanzibar is that IT degree holders have less ideas about website development because in the college they don’t go deeper, and they are not prepared to design and develop dynamic websites. I press the idea to the donors and big IT companies to help support the Zanzicode project in Zanzibar – we really need to give a ‘go ahead’ to this initiative!”