Month: March 2019
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Expanding Opportunities in Vietnamese Orphanages
Goal: Enhance the learning experience for students with Kidspire by rolling out new a number of new programs. Background: 168,000 children in Vietnam are orphans or abandoned. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities. Few students graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment options, and even fewer attend university. Partner:…
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User Research & Product Design for Agriculture Planter in Senegal with Autodesk
Goal: Expand the reach of myAgro’s useful and women empowering precision planter Partner: myAgro’s mission is to move smallholder farmers out of poverty. myAgro has developed a mobile layaway system that is based on habits and behaviors that are already part of smallholders’ lives. It relies on scratch cards –similar to mobile phone credit.…
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Implementing the Use of Technology Centered Bootcamps in Paraguay
Background: Founded in 1985, Fundación Paraguaya (FP) is a self‐sufficient, nonprofit, social enterprise spearheading microfinance and entrepreneurship in Paraguay. FP develops and implements practical, innovative, and sustainable solutions to eliminate poverty, creating decent conditions for all families. The program, Poverty Stoplight, is a new poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology that assists families to self-diagnose…
