Lasa was able to offer training for those refugee and asylum seeker interested in ICT and Circuit Riding

These are there experiences and thoughts

My name is Indira, I am originally from Kosovo and have been in UK for 16 years now

I am full time employed in a homeless charity project as a Senior Advice Worker but I also due to the lack of finances and resources I am quite interested in computing and have become what we call an accidental techie

Course gave me the knowledge, the strategy how for example a Healthcheck should be performed but also what I liked was that it was very informal I've met people from different countries.

The teaching style was very relaxed

The things that I have learnt I have taken back to my employers and since then I have managed to do lots of things

I was able to attend the Circuit Rider conference which was another positive thing for me because I was able to see people from all around UK with different backgrounds in ICT and how they deal with problems.

Very interesting, from the course we have learnt a lot of things like how to find volunteering so we can contribute skills to the community

We have different background and different experience, with this when it comes to this country nobody is aware of that

This course when it was offered as a woman I thought it was a good way of empowering to take challenges and become IT consultant.

The whole idea behind Circuit Riding attracted me more as it was helping the small charity groups that give a lot to the community.

Being a Circuit Rider gave me a lot of confidence that I did not have before, when I went on volunteer placement even though I was full time employed it was just amazing how much I knew when I was talking to this person and organisations.

Paul Allen, Lasa says:

I was amazed at the amount of enthusiasm and confidence that was built and the amount of knowledge about IT and the uses of IT but had not had the oppportunity in the UK to develop those skills.

Fore more information visit www.lasa.org.uk/circuitriders www.ukriders.info