Africa

RefuSHE Provides Support to Young Refugees Kenya continues to host a large population of refugees and asylum seekers. Among the most vulnerable of Nairobi’s refugee population are unaccompanied [...]

Youth Lacking Digital Skills Many people in Nigeria find it difficult to access the internet, and even in places where these networks exist, internet access is still inefficient and costly. Many [...]

The Poverty Cycle in Rural Uganda While talent is distributed equally, opportunity is not. For children growing up in rural Uganda, where 75% of children will not continue onto high school, and 1 [...]

Inclusive Hybrid Learning Models in South Africa UNESCO claims that the current rates of educational access in sub-Saharan Africa are among the lowest in the world due to a shortage of technology [...]

Ghana’s Digital Divide Underserved communities in Ghana face significant challenges in providing children and adolescents with the inaccessibility to personal computers, mobile phones and [...]

Educational Challenges in Rwanda UNESCO estimates that only 18% of Rwandan youth complete upper secondary school and among those living in low-income households, that graduation rates drop to 4%. [...]

Rwanda presents a challenging context for early literacy education due to its multilingual and broader cultural context. Research shows that technology can play an important role in addressing [...]

S.O.U.L. Foundation Enables Sustainable Livelihoods S.O.U.L. Foundation partners with local Ugandan communities in breaking the cycle of poverty with programs that provide education and [...]

Virtual Internship Opportunity for Undergraduate Students During the summer of 2021, Team4Tech partnered with Middlebury College, University of California at Davis, and Dartmouth College to [...]

Worldreader Addresses Child Literacy Rates 53 percent of children in low- and middle-income countries cannot read and understand a simple story by the end of primary school. The Covid-19 pandemic [...]

Employment for Women and Girls in Uganda Over 60% of the population in Uganda is below the age of 30, and 74% of Ugandans between the ages of 15-25 are unemployed. The majority of them are young [...]

Supporting Primary Level Digital Education Ugandan primary school attendance has grown due to a universal primary education policy. However, the quality of teaching and learning needs significant [...]