Female teachers now have an easy chance to access digital services including their pay slips, teaching content and filing tax returns thanks to a new laptops project launched on Saturday, February 25.
The laptops programme is part of three other products targeting female teachers including personal accident cover and soft loans under the ‘Tuinuane Dada initiative’.
Opande said teachers will be able toown Sh70,00 laptops by only paying some Sh1, 500 per month, an initiative of Kenya Women Teachers Association (KEWOTA).
Teachers will be allowed to repay in 36 months in instalments of between Sh1,080 to Sh2,500 monthly.
KEWOTA Chief Executive Benta Opande said the laptops will have curriculum designs from nursery to secondary schools and will have some 104 digitized books that members will use to teach.Laptops will also have a solar pot where a teacher will be able to recharge using solar energy.
In the programme, Opande said teachers will also access insurance covers that will take care of their expenses on motor accidents and personal accidents.
The insurance cover is only for personal accidents and motor vehicles. The insurance given by the government does not cover those two yet teachers are involved in accidents every day,’’ Opande said.
The CEO said these services are only available for its 90, 000 members noting that they are working to reach 230, 000 women teachers across the country.
Incase it is stolen and the teacher reports it, the laptop is switched off and anyone who tries to use it cannot gain access.
The laptops take care of the contents the teacher would like to use. Primary school teachers’ laptops are different from that of secondary and teachers’ colleges.
Opande said KEWOTA has partnered with the House of Procurement (HOP), associated with the Estonian Consulate, to provide digital programmes.
Speaking during the launch, Opande said, it is time for Kenya to embrace the technology world in education noting that this will go a long way to solve teachers’ challenge of paperwork in their daily activities.
At the event were representatives from TSC and Kenya Secondary School Heads Association chair.
KESSHA national chairman Kahi Indimuli said that with the initiative, teaching will be made easier.She said teachers will have a lot of liberty in how they teach provided they arrive at the desired learning outcome.
Opande said teachers will be allowed to use the contents in the laptops for the next three years free of charge.
Non-members will however be able to access the content at Sh10,000 while learners can register and access the same at Sh3,000.
