Location: India
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Supporting Resilience Programs for Girls and Youth in India with CorStone
Cultivating personal resilience is a foundational step in helping youth to thrive – one which is often missing in global development programs. Research shows that fostering resilience in youth, or the ability to bounce back and thrive after challenge or crisis, improves a multitude of other positive outcomes. CorStone envisions a world that chooses love…
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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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Cultivating Enriching Childhoods in India with Dost Education
Project type: Virtual or On-Site (Day of Service/Short-term available) When: April to September All parents are motivated to give their children the best education, but many resource-constrained families struggle to do so. Children with parents of low literacy levels have a 72% chance of being at the lowest reading level themselves. Unfortunately, it is extremely…
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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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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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Building Digital Literacy Among Girls and Teachers in India
In total, we spent 54 workshop hours with 14 teachers and coordinators from CARE India and Udaan schools from three states. The immediate beneficiaries of the project will be the 100 girls Udaan Hardoi admits annually. However, the number of potential beneficiaries is over 16,000 learners, as the teachers and coordinators we trained from the…
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Empowering and Teaching Women to Overcome Cultural Oppression in India
Eleven Intuit volunteers came from five countries – the United States, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom and India – arriving at all hours of the day and night in the hardscrabble city of Ghaziabad in rural India. And they shared a common goal: To help 60 women overcome cultural oppression by teaching them the skills…
