Location: Latin America
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Using Technology to Enhance Reading Services in Peru with Worldreader
Latin America suffers from significant inequality when it comes to many areas, including education. For example, one in two students in Latin America do not reach the basic reading proficiency level required in the PISA assessment, led by the OECD, which highlights the learning crisis in the region. Of the countries on the PISA assessment,…
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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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Capacity Building for Rainforest Conservation: 2020 Project
The Rainforest Trust Brings Conservation Non-Profits Together DocuSign employees designed and delivered capacity-building workshops to Rainforest Trust’s NGO partners working to protect critical ecosystems around the world. Since 1988, Rainforest Trust has protected more than 24 million acres of tropical habitat across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. They plan to protect an additional…
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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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Supporting and Training Communities on Edtech in Costa Rica
Goal: Provide immersive service learning programs for students interested in technology and education. Background: TeachUNITED is a nonprofit that partners with rural schools in the Sarapiquí region of Costa Rica for an intensive two-year program that includes on-site teacher coaching, a robust training program, and mobile off-the-grid technology. TeachUNITED delivers an arsenal of tools and…
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Creating Replicable Capacity Building Workshops for Rainforest Conservation in Ecuador
Goal: Design and deliver capacity-building workshops to a group of Rainforest Trust’s nonprofit partners from Ecuador and neighboring countries. Background: Since 1988, Rainforest Trust has protected more than 20 million acres of tropical habitat across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and has projects underway that will protect an additional 28 million to achieve…
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Implementing the Use of Technology Centered Bootcamps in Paraguay
Background: Founded in 1985, Fundación Paraguaya (FP) is a self‐sufficient, nonprofit, social enterprise spearheading microfinance and entrepreneurship in Paraguay. FP develops and implements practical, innovative, and sustainable solutions to eliminate poverty, creating decent conditions for all families. The program, Poverty Stoplight, is a new poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology that assists families to self-diagnose…
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Wrapping up in Costa Rica
After a number of late days and even later nights, our time in Costa Rica has come to an end. 11 days and 4 blog posts later, the Box volunteers have wrapped up their final day with facilitators from Paniamor and Ideas en Accion. And what a time it was for everyone involved. In simple…
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Engaging Youth in Creative Problem Solving Skills in Costa Rica
Box, Inc and Team4Tech will be working together to help develop new curriculum centered around engaging the youth of Costa Rica in subjects such as programming, robotics, design, and 3D printing. Read more about the project and team who will head to Costa Rica and start the project this coming Monday, August 21st!
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Inspiring The Next Generation With Classroom Technology in Costa Rica
From June – July, 2016, a team of VMware Costa Rica employees collaborated with Paniamor Foundation on a Service Learning Accelerator – a pilot program developed by the VMware Foundation in collaboration with Team4Tech.
