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Meet Abdoulrazack Somalia is a country destroyed by civil war and then by the occupation of Al-shabaab. I had been working as an Interpreter in Somalia and my life was threatened by this malleolus group. I fled the country to save my life and my journey ended in the UK. After applying for asylum and […]
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Meet Madiha Madiha originally comes from Pakistan. She came to live in the UK about 15 years ago. After years of juggling various jobs to make ends meet, and not feeling content with the shift her career and life had taken, she decided to turn her life around. This is how she found CodeYourFuture. Not […]
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CodeYourFuture is not just any other coding school; we are a community with a mission to fight inequality. We support motivated individuals from the most disadvantaged groups – those who have limited access to training and opportunities and who are underrepresented in the tech sector. It has never been more apparent how important it is […]
Read moreWhat is Code Your Future? Code Your Future started in 2016 as a coding school for refugees. We’re a non-profit organisation with the aim of supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK who have a dream to become a software developer in the tech industry. In 2015, as the worldwide refugee crisis hit new […]
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Yohannes is a CodeYourFuture graduate, looking for his first tech job. Check out his GitHub here. I was born and brought up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I’d studied some computer science, but I would say it wasn’t until I moved to Glasgow in 2016 joined the first Scottish class of Code Your Future that I […]
Read moreAlong with our students, volunteers are the lifeblood of our organisation. Liliana, who started with us as a volunteer, asks… Why do we volunteer? There’s always a temptation to give a one-size-fits-all answer to that kind of question. You can Google it to see tons of articles and find people offering advice related to […]
Read moreJust over a year ago CodeYourFuture existed in the minds of a couple of people that wanted to create the first programme in the UK dedicated to helping refugees and asylum seekers. We had no mentors, no students and we didn’t know any refugee organisations that could help us in finding them. We only had […]
Read moreImagine that you are the founder of a social enterprise. You spend time planning and working on setting the foundations of your project. You work hard and the day arrives when you start offering a service to a group of people, becoming a day of celebration in our collective memory. In the case of CodeYourFuture, […]
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