Refactor your life
summary
Claims a practical pathway from refugee to developer using a volunteer-run curriculum: a 7-month course focused on web development co-designed with industry, weekly self-driven work plus a volunteer-taught day, and an outcomes claim of 120 graduates over four years who found jobs. The concrete tools are curriculum, volunteers, and placement support; the built product is a running training-to-employment pipeline that the organisers present as working.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:45The decision
- 12:19War and poverty can change us, often for the worse.
- 13:42Your network is your net worth
- 14:33Code doesn't care about who writes it. What matters is that it works.
- 20:13Wat are the essentials skills needed?
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