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Re:How to support new/learning devs in developing countries? by Rzor on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:29PM (#22188093)
Find out if there's a large Ebay-like plataform in his country. If so, see if their payment based service for commercial operations allows you to buy stuff from him. Maybe he can announce some digital product/service.

Also, can you link his GitHub here?

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Re:How to support new/learning devs in developing countries? by ficklepickle on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:55PM (#22188222)
That's an interesting idea.

I should have been more clear, it's not really about this one individual. I'd like to see people with potential supported towards a career. It can be hard to do without guidance.

Helping people from poverty to a good career can have a huge knock on effect to families and communities and societies.

The repo in question wasn't amazing in an absolute context. It was amazing given this person doesn't own a computer and struggles to eat. Time spent looking for food is time that can't be spent learning.

I don't actually have the link at the moment. But there must be millions of people with technical aptitude but without the support and means to grow that into a career.

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