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The ETC learning center & cyber cafe in Bangassou, Central African Republic (CAR), is giving communities the opportunity to gain professional qualifications and access critical online services. People fleeing violence can:
 
✅Learn computer skills for the first time

By Elizabeth Millership

Imagine your life has been turned upside down by conflict. You have left home, the future is uncertain, and you need help.

By Beryl Lo, ETC Information Management Officer

By Liz Millership

In a country of five million people to only three ventilators, free and rapid access to information on COVID-19 could mean the difference between life and death.

Communication is a basic human need. In times of conflict and insecurity, this need intensifies as communicating and accessing information are – quite literally – lifelines for those in need of humanitarian assistance.

In the 11 months since Cyclone Idai barrelled into central Mozambique, devastating lives and destroying critical communications infrastructure, the ETC together with the Mozambique Regulatory Authority (ARECOM) and the National Forum of Community Radi