BeginIT is a social educational project launched by inDrive in 2012. The program is aimed at identifying and future career guidance of capable children from orphanages, boarding schools, and rural schools in the sphere of new technologies.
The goal is to arouse children's interest in the sphere of intellectual production, to give a headstart to personal growth, to influence the choice of a future profession, and to support their beginnings in IT.
In 2022, in the project, there are 127 orphanages, shelters, and remote rural schools from Russia, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Chile, Indonesia, India and Pakistan.
Participating schools are provided with financial assistance for technical equipment of computer classes and programming courses, and additional training.
“We believe that BeginIT will positively influence the fate of the participants, and among them will appear the new, talented programmers, designers, IT entrepreneurs, scientists and other representatives of the new economy” - CEO & Founder of inDrive Arsen Tomsky.