Part of Ofok’s mission is to actively engage its students by investing in people in whom they see potential. Ofok does not want to simply passively transmit information to its students, but help them understand how to use their acquired knowledge by helping them seek and obtain jobs and careers.
Mohamed Abd Allah Farid used to be the manager of a Pizza Hut in Cairo and decided that he wanted to change his career, develop his potential and earn a higher salary. Two years later he is an instructor at Ofok.
“I heard about Ofok a long time ago from a friend from university,” he said. “He told me that they were working on a project to offer services to people who want an ICT career. I was interested in the ICT industry because it’s a good career.”
He said that Ofok gave him a career and showed him that learning is an ongoing process.
“I have learned that learning doesn’t stop at one stage in life or phase,” Farid said. “I am constantly learning and accumulating knowledge. Through Ofok I have also contributed to teaching others and motivating students to seek their own careers and build their own future."
Medhat Farouk Ebrahim is also an instructor and training manager at Ofok. He previously taught technology courses at other institutions, but believes that by working at Ofok he is helping fulfill social goals as well as his own personal career objectives.
“I prefer to work with Ofok to help develop the human potential in Egypt and change the teaching process,” he said.
“In Ofok we can teach… students in another way and the education process differently. We help students focus not only on the education process but on their individual skills.”
Ofok boasts of other individual successes, such as having the youngest IT Essentials 1 (a course through the Cisco Networking Academy) graduate in Cisco’s history thus far.
Ismail Mohammed Eisa, who is twelve years old. He now holds the ITE certificate from Cisco through the Ofok e-Academy, certifying his specialization in basic IT skills. Ismail is now the youngest graduate of the Cisco Academy worldwide. Ismail is hoping to achieve the CCNA and CCNP in coming years.
The people at Ofok have certainly shown that much can be achieved by people who have a vision and strong desire to help their community. In their few short years of existence, they have already contributed much to the development of ICT education in Egypt, and are constantly seeking new avenues for human development. 
