Accra, Nov 09, GNA – Companies in Europe are collaborating with IT specialists from Africa – remotely and almost without any time zone difference. The social business, AmaliTech, first started with this business model in Cologne in 2019. And so far, the idea has been a great success: Today, more than 1000 information and communications technology graduates from African universities have been or are currently being trained in programmes at the AmaliTech training centre in Ghana. Of the trainees who have already completed their programme, 90 per cent have an employment contract. “After the great start in the Ghanaian university town of Takoradi, we have now expanded to Rwanda,” says Martin Hecker, founder and CEO of AmaliTech gGmbH. His goal: to create 3000 trainee positions and 1000 new jobs in Ghana and Rwanda by 2025.
The manager of the new AmaliTech Training Academy in Rwanda, Roger Uwayezu, reports: “The free advanced education in our Training Academy is a perfect addition to their studies. “This is because the IT talents can actually implement their theoretical skills by closely working with European companies.” The first trainees have already started in Kigali. Their knowledge in full-stack, back-end and front-end development is deepened in the service centre.
Clients of AmaliTech, who already work with experts from Ghana, confirm the quality of the training and the results achieved.
HERE Technologies testifies: “We decided to take a step towards Africa already in 2020. AmaliTech made it easy for us to work with African tech talent.
“Their teams have gone through a rigorous recruitment process and completed additional digital and soft skill training. We can see the results in our successful collaboration with AmaliTech.
“We now have a team of 10 experts responsible for data collection and cleaning of geospatial data. By using platforms like Slack, it has been easy for us to communicate with the team and stay up to date on projects.
“Most importantly, we have received accurate project results that contribute to ensuring high-precision data and offering advanced tooling for our clients. We are happy to have taken this step with AmaliTech.”
AmaliTech trains university graduates in Africa and offers them a professional career path in its local service centres or helps them on their way to self-employment after successfully completing the training. The project started in 2019 in cooperation with the Takoradi Technical University, Ghana. “Our project in Ghana has developed well and will soon be completely self-funded, with the surpluses generated by the services being fed straight into further training,” explains Martin Hecker. “The expansion to Rwanda, therefore, is the logical next step. Rwanda is also one of the African countries with great potential to offer high-quality digital and business services to the global market. We are the interface that makes it easier for European companies to find digital talent and work with them,” says Hecker.
About AmaliTech gGmbH:
AmaliTech is a social enterprise that harnesses the potential of remote working to build the future of work in Sub-Saharan Africa. AmaliTech provides employment pathways in the tech sector to young graduates in Sub-Saharan Africa, connecting them to the global demand for tech talent.
The approach combines training with employment and continuous learning. By focusing on skilled ICT services, we contribute to ecosystem development and the emergence of a future-proof industry with growth engine potential.
Through the UN’s Decent Jobs for Youth Initiative, AmaliTech has committed to train over 3,000 individuals and create more than 1,000 direct jobs in Ghana and Rwanda by 2025.
AmaliTech puts inclusion front and centre: investing in women empowerment, integrating people with disabilities into the workplace, and bringing digital skills to high schools.
AmaliTech is supported by the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH among others. Under the Invest for Jobs brand, the Special Initiative aims to team up with companies to create good jobs and training opportunities as well as to improve working conditions in currently eight partner countries in Africa.