Location: Asia
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Building Capacity for Leadership and Growth
Pure Storage employees built capacity for Kidspire’s staff as leaders in Vietnam through a virtual mentorship. Background: 168,000 children in Vietnam are orphans or have been abandoned. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities. Few of these children graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment options, and even fewer go…
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Creating an Online Training Platform to Reach Teachers in India
Goal: Develop an online module for Learning Links Foundation’s Student Teacher Empowerment Program. Background: In India, over 50% of class 10 students are reading below grade level and only 16% of grade 10 students achieved grade-level competency in Mathematics (the National Achievement Survey 2015). Partner: Learning Links Foundation is one of the largest and most respected…
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Leveraging Human-Centered Design Thinking in India
Goal: Engage parents and build a community to support children through new podcasts with Dost Education. Background: In India, there are still over 160 million illiterate women; over 11 million of whom are between the ages of 15 and 24 years old. These women become mothers who are motivated to give their children better opportunities…
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Developing Maker Mindsets in Vietnam
Background: 168,000 children in Vietnam are orphans or have been abandoned. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities. Few of these children graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment options, and even fewer go on to attend university. Partner: Kidspire Vietnam is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support children…
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Increased Student Engagement in Rural Cambodia
Goal: Extend CARE’s project to provide minorities in rural areas with technology-based education. Project: As a part of CARE Cambodia’s Know & Grow Project to serve ethnic minority adolescent girls and boys in the rural province of Ratanak Kire, a team of 10 Box volunteers returned to three schools to train CARE Cambodia staff, ICT…
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Advancing the Teachers and Students Digital Media Skills in Cambodia
Goal: Conduct workshops and utilize toolkits on design and media skills at CCF’s NCA. Background: At the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Cambodia, hundreds of children use to scavenge through garbage or beg on the streets to survive. The garbage dump was closed in 2009 but this community continues to live in extreme poverty. Partner: Since…
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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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Piloting maker activities at a new innovation lab in Vietnam
Goal: Support Kidspire in developing new maker activities and spaces. Partner: Kidspire Vietnam is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children living in orphanages build skills for productive employment after they leave the orphanages when they turn 18. Kidspire Vietnam’s innovative program features a student-centered learning environment and a curriculum focused on coding, circuitry, and robotics.…
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Developing a Digital Literacy Program and Solutions in Cambodia
Goal: Install RACHEL servers to ensure students access to content with CARE. Project: As a part of CARE Cambodia’s Know & Grow Project to serve ethnic minority adolescent girls and boys in the rural province of Ratanak Kire, a team of Box volunteers empowered the CARE Cambodia staff, ICT Core Trainers, teachers, and students from…
