Breaking Poverty Through Digital Career Pathways

What This Programme Is About

This program is about unlocking potential that's been locked behind financial barriers. Every scholarship we fund sends a deserving individual through Hacktiv8's proven 16-week tech bootcamp—where they don't just learn to code, they learn to build careers.

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Our scholars come from all walks of life: the brilliant student who can't afford university, the talented young adult who can't afford to leave the market, the determined parent seeking a better future for their family. What they all share is raw potential and fierce determination.

Within six months of completing the program, 100% of our scholarship recipients are employed. They're not just surviving—they're thriving, earning salaries that seemed impossible before. One scholarship doesn't just create one success story. It creates role models, breadwinners, and proof that talent, not privilege, should determine success.

"I used to sell traditional cakes with my mother just to help my family survive. I never imagined I could work in tech. Now I'm a software developer earning enough to support my entire family. This scholarship didn't just change my life—it changed my family's entire future." — Arvi, HACKTIV8 Scholarship Recipient

The Challenges We Respond To

Indonesia's most talented individuals face impossible barriers to tech careers:

• No access to credit: Education loans require income proof or collateral they don't have
• Time poverty: Traditional degrees take years. Struggling families can't afford to wait
• Geographic inequality: Quality tech training is concentrated in major cities
• Missing networks: Even with skills, they lack connections to break into the industry
• Cycle of poverty: Without intervention, talent stays trapped and potential stays wasted

What We’re Doing About It

We're removing every barrier that stands between talent and opportunity:

1. Full financial coverage: Tuition, materials, and technology access are all covered. Zero cost to students.
2. Accelerated path to employment: 16 weeks from unemployed to employed, not 4 years
3. Remote-first learning: Talented individuals anywhere in Indonesia can participate
4. Comprehensive support: Technical training + career coaching + mental health counseling
5. Direct hiring connections: Introductions to 1,300+ companies actively seeking tech talent
6. Proven outcomes: 100% of scholarship recipients employed within 180 days, earning 3x minimum wage

Who’s Involved

This program brings together people who believe talent is everywhere and should be nurtured everywhere. Scholarship recipients are carefully selected based on aptitude and determination, not family wealth. Hacktiv8 provides world-class instruction and career services backed by 9 years and 49,000+ successful graduates.

the scholarship program, ensure comprehensive support, and trackYETI and Hacktiv8 Indonesia manages the scholarship program, ensures comprehensive support, and tracks impact. ZAKATLOOP und scholarships and believe Indonesia's future depends on unlocking potential wherever it exists. Hiring partners commit to interviewing our graduates and judging them on skill, not pedigree.

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Together, we're proving that poverty isn't permanent when opportunity is accessible.