Project Type: Entrepreneurship & Financial Inclusion
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Technology Skills for Women in Uganda: 2019 WITU Project
WITU Empowers Women to Learn Technical Skills 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 due to poverty or lack digital skills for better jobs because public schools do not use technology for instruction and learning. Women in Technology…
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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…
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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…
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Curbing Poverty through Digital Literacy in Liberia with EduCare
Local solutions are fundamental so solving local problems. By engaging directly at the local level, EduCare puts the power back in the hands of those working on the front lines of national development in their own local communities. EduCare uses the tools of human and economic capacity building to foster the emergence of a regenerated…
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Activating the Potential of Impoverished Families in Paraguay with Fundación Paraguaya
Project Type: Virtual or On-Site (Short-term available) When: Flexible 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. This disadvantage is due to the scarce opportunities and difficult access to specialized training and services…
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Advancing Quality Schooling in India with Learning Links Foundation
Project type: Virtual or On-site (Day of Service/Short-term available) When: Any Dates Although the education system, especially with regards to access, has significantly improved, the quality of education and attainment of grade-level competencies continues to be a serious cause of concern in India. The 2015 Indian National Achievement Survey showed that over 50% of grade…
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Fostering Entrepreneurial Development with EntreEd
Project Type: Virtual When: Flexible “In this age of educational accountability through standards and assessments with only one right answer and success measured by test scores, we need to keep young minds open for alternative ways of thinking…teach students not to get a job, but create one.” — Dr. Gene Coulson Executive Director, The Consortium…
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Digital Skill Development for U.S. Students with BUILD
BUILD Brings Skill Development to Public High Schools By 2030, 65% of all jobs in the United States will require a post-secondary education and training beyond high school. As the economy evolves, job growth and a stagnant graduation rate will result in a shortage of 5 million skilled workers across the country. BUILD partners with…
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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…
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Introducing digital design to women entrepreneurs in Uganda
Goal: Team4Tech is introducing programs on graphic design, video editing, and digital design in coordination with WITU. 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…