Category: Uncategorized
-
Educational Programs Anchored in Reading and Play Combat Inequality in São Paulo, Brazil
Economic Disparity and Educational Disadvantages There are significant disparities in access to quality education in Brazil, with children in underserved communities facing substantial educational disadvantages. This inequality hinders the full development of these children and youth, limiting their future prospects. Uplifting Education Through Literacy and Play Working against these disparities and located within the second…
-
Employee Volunteers From Zendesk Impact Learners In South Africa and India
Continued Corporate Social Impact with a Valued Partner Zendesk, a company providing software-as-a-service products, is a Team4Tech corporate partner, supporting our work accelerating impact for education-focused NGOs. Since their first engagement with Team4Tech in 2021, Zendesk employee volunteers have contributed to meaningful social impact through many exciting projects all over the world, including: In 2023,…
-
Developing Curricula for Students in a Rural Maasai Community in Tanzania with Employee Volunteers
Employee volunteers from Barracuda Networks joined Team4Tech staff for another transformative virtual project driving positive change for learners in Tanzania. In a rural Maasai community in northwest Tanzania, 78% of households live below the poverty line of $1.25/day, and girls and women face severe gender discrimination. Orkeeswa, an education nonprofit and Team4Tech NGO partner, serves…
-
Bolstering Organizational Capacity to Better Serve Indian Youth
Inner Development for Youth in Underserved Communities In Bihar, one of India’s most historically impoverished states, high poverty rates have dire implications for marginalized groups—like women and girls. With limited access to education and economic opportunities, many young girls marry and have children before the age of 18. WorldBeing (formerly CorStone) is an NGO delivering…
-
Skilled Volunteers Transform Learner Career Pathways in Rural Indian Communities
Connecting Learners to Career Opportunities While 97% of students are enrolled in primary schools in India, only 27% ultimately enroll in higher education, and of that percentage, just 50% of graduates are considered employable*. Learning Links Foundation (LLF), an India-based nonprofit, addresses this issue by working with students in grades 9-12 from under-resourced government schools…
-
Empowering Ugandan Learners Through an Impactful Volunteer Experience
We welcome Michael Brazinski (Program Coordinator) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies as our guest blogger this week. In this blog, Michael shares more about his impactful volunteer experience on location in Uganda. This summer, Team4Tech partnered with Middlebury College and two nonprofit organizations in Uganda, the African SOUP and S.O.U.L. Foundation, for an…
-
Returning to School Amidst Covid-19
By now, most schools are reopening and students are returning to school. Team4Tech recommends following safe reopening tips as laid out by the CDC and the WHO. Tips discussed include staggering the beginning and end of the school day, bringing students to school in cohorts, strictly enforcing the proper use of cloth face coverings, canceling…
-
What Makes Us Human – CoSN 2018 Conference
Last week, we had the opportunity to attend CoSN’s (the Consortium for School Networking) 2018 conference, Designing Learning in the 4th industrial Revolution. Thought leaders of technology and education came together to share ideas and inspire changes in our schools, believing we have left behind the information age and are now entering a new phase…
-
Inspiring Youth in Ga-Rankuwa Township, South Africa
Learn more about how a team of individual volunteers inspired youth in Ga-Rankuwa Township in South Africa with technology from November 28 – December 7, 2016. The team came from a wide range of background including a software engineer from Optimizely, a Peace Corps current volunteer,a retired teacher who is 76 years old, and the…
-
How Adobe Volunteers Planted the Seeds for Tech Education in Rural Cambodia
In December 2016, six employees continued our partnership with Adobe, by forming a second team to embark on a two-week service project to train teachers on how to implement technology in their classrooms. In this group reflective post on the Adobe Spark platform, volunteers tell the story of our first project in partnership with…
