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Contact: Patricia Haren

1 Millennium Way
Springvale Business Park

Tel: 028 90 28 8810

E-Mail: patriciaharen@bytes.org

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Aims and Objectives

The group works with 16 - 25 year old unemployed young people and use ICT as a tool to encourage these young people to improve their personal development skills as follows:

To provide opportunities which engage marginalised/disaffected young people from the local community;
To accelerate young people's personal and social development though the enjoyable use of ICT by providing stimulating project work;
To set goals with young people and regularly assess these;
To assist young people to move into recognised training, further education or employment;
To effectively monitor the work of the project by continual evaluation.

Projects and Activities

There are 10 ICT drop-in centres:- Rathcoole, Bawnmore, New Lodge, Short Strand, Tullycarnet, Ballybeen, Woodvale, Upper Springfield and Poleglass plus one centre in Derry.

Projects include:
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Health Projects
The group also delivers single identity and cross-community projects across the 10 Byte centres.