IMPACTING LIVES BY TEACHING DIGITAL SKILLS

Why Powercoders?

Switzerland will soon be short of almost 40,000 ICT specialists. At the same time, there is an increasing number of well-qualified, highly motivated refugees and migrants who are struggling to gain a foothold in the labor market.

There’s one solution for two problems:
Empowering refugees & migrants for an IT career.

Powercoders is an ICT job integration program for refugees and migrants.

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In India, many girls go for engineering studies.

Shehani, SAP developer at UBS, Alumna Powercoders

She started her full-time job as an SAP developer at UBS in April, directly after her internship ended.

I went further and I survived. I did it.

Delberin Ali, Software Developer and Researcher at Institut für Data Science FHNW, Alumnus Powercoders

Seeing his father never give up made him the person he is today.

Do you like the mountains? Do you like to climb?” – “I do now.”

Ali Alshweiki, Modern Analytics Consultant at Evolusys, Alumnus Powercoders

Vevey is now his home, Evolusys his employer, and Ali sums it all up with the words “I am at the happiest time in my life right now.”

I want to learn more of this stuff!

Abdelrahman Alallaqi, Junior Software Developer at Adobe, Alumnus Powercoders

His breakthrough moment was when he was finally ready to be part of team meetings and handle his own projects.

I got a second chance at life.

Jamila Amini, DevOps Engineer at Swisscom, Alumna Powercoders

She was forced to flee Afghanistan with her husband and daughter and our very first participant to secure a permanent employment.

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