Approximately 70% of the world’s population does not have access to computers or the Internet — cut off from a new world of education, employment and empowerment. U-TOUCH offers a proven, scalable and sustainable solution for millions of young women and men in even the poorest, most isolated villages.U-TOUCH Digital Centers provide IT training as well as related job, health and life skills. The results are dramatic – creating opportunities that increase incomes and support improved family nutrition, children’s education, health care and more.We leverage the power of information technology to dramatically transform lives and communities.Using their new IT skills, graduates are becoming employed for the first time. They are are developing business skills and becoming entrepreneurs. Graduates have developed the confidence and skills to achieve new goals, to open their own business and to succeed. Graduates who had previous employment have received promotions. Trainees who have shown mastery and special strengths have subsequently become trainers in our U-TOUCH Centers. Others have ventured into their own ICT business, extending ICT-based skills throughout their community.U-TOUCH is fortifying families by training women and men in ICT and life skills. As a result U-TOUCH graduates are earning an income to support their independence, giving them the ability to provide for their children’s education, nutrition, shelter, household needs and health care.