The Pi Jam Foundation, a not-for-profit, award winning organization that aims to integrate affordable technology with education for school students, celebrated the launch of its program in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Pi Jam has been tirelessly working in the field of digital education and literacy, even in remote areas and low-income schools to make the present generation future-ready and technologically competent.
In Kashmir particularly, the role of organizations like Pi Jam becomes even more important as it lags behind other states of India in the fields of computer education and digital skills.
The launch event was attended by more than 300 participants across Zoom and FB Live, with the diverse audience including academicians, lawyers, student scholars, IT professionals, media practitioners from across India, along with students and teachers from schools and universities in Kashmir and Pune.
The Pi Jam Team is led by Omar Hafiz, a renowned social development practitioner and Global Goodwill Ambassador.
Possessing an exemplary record of more than a decade of peace-building through education, youth capacitation and experiential workshops across the country, Hafiz stressed on the need for promoting digital literacy, coding, critical thinking and problem solving to be introduced at school level, to help children adapt to modern professional challenges through a hands-on STEM approach.
He said, “A lot of times, it’s a challenge to equip schools with low cost technology and update the curriculum as per modern day requirements. Pi Jam Foundation plans to provide quality computer education to more than 1 lakh students across the rest of India and bridge the gap between the educational curriculum and the demands of the current digital workforce.”