Location: Asia
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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…
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Enhancing Digital Platforms in Rural India
In September, 8 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) employee volunteers traveled to Pune, India, as part of the HPE Leadership Through Service program. Their mission: to enhance a digital platform that will improve provide educational opportunities to 6 million underprivileged children.
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Troubleshooting and learning from two projects in India
For three weeks in November 2016, Aron Asor (our Software Development Lead) and I represented Learning Equality while working with two partner organizations in India. We spent the first week assisting Team4Tech and volunteers they recruited from Intel to deploy KA Lite and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools in an all-girls rural school…
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Empowering Teachers in Rural India With Technology
Monkeys, power shortages, and cold conditions didn’t deter a team of VMware people and teachers in Northern India from integrating technology into the classroom. Earlier this year, a team of VMware people embarked on a Good Gigs Trek—the VMware Foundation’s leadership program—in collaboration with CARE India and Team4Tech. VMware recently released the blogpost and video…
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Educating and Empowering Orphans in Vietnam with EdTech
In March 2016, two Adobe principal product managers joined our project as eager volunteers, to return to the orphanages of Vietnam with our partner Orphan Impact and bring human centered design thinking to their technology and career planning curricula. As part of their storytelling and reflective practice post-project, Tom and Cathi used the innovative tools…
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Extending Digital Literacy and English Skills Through New Technology in Cambodia
For the last two weeks of March 2016, Team4Tech immersed 10 volunteers from enterprise software company Box in the educational landscape of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Our objective: strengthening the capacity of the local education nonprofit Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC) to enhance the quality of their programs by integrating digital resources and technology-assisted tools.
