Tag: Entrepreneurship

  • Empowering Entrepreneurship in Paraguay with Fundación Paraguaya

    Access to Entrepreneurship in Paraguay In Paraguay, more than 30% of the population lives in poverty. Six out of ten young people with jobs have bad working conditions, lack of adequate protection, and low wages. Thus, very few people have access to training for entrepreneurship in Paraguay. This disadvantage is due to the scarce opportunities…

    Children practice writing. Fundación Paraguaya supports families working towards entrepreneurship in Paraguay.

  • Reaching More Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Twilio Helps Fundación Paraguaya Reach More Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic By Yannie Yip and Alice Cai, Twilio Team4Tech Employee Volunteers Previous Twilio Project: In May 2019, a group of Twilions (Twilio employees) traveled to Paraguay to work with the nonprofits Fundación Paraguaya and Penguin Academy to host a series of workshops and further develop…

    Family looking at touchscreen in store

  • Women Empowerment in Vietnam: 2020 Project with Kidspire Vietnam

    Kidspire Vietnam Enables Skill-building for Orphaned Children In Vietnam, there are over 2 million orphans who are struggling with poverty, violence and prejudice and even sex trafficking. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities and drop out of school. Few of these children graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment…

    Kidspire group picture

  • Capacity Building in Poverty Stoplight with Fundación Paraguaya

    Fundación Paraguaya and the Poverty Stoplight Platform Poverty affects every family differently. For over 35 years, the Poverty Stoplight was both a metric and a methodology to enable families to assess their levels of poverty, restore their dignity, and carry out personalized strategies to overcome their specific deprivations. With this tool, Fundacion Paraguaya (FP) has…

    Team of volunteers building capacity on the Poverty Stoplight platform pose at Fundación Paraguaya event

  • Launching the first maker space in Uganda

    Goal: Working with WITU to give young women in Uganda quality digital education. Background: 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 women who have either dropped out of school or did not…