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While some countries within Africa offer free primary (only primary) education, most require a cost of admittance in order to afford educational supplies and to pay the instructors.Ĭost of educating a Primary school class of 25 for one year: ~10,300$, roughly 410 a student.Ĭost of educating a Secondary school class of 25 for one year: ~17,800 $, roughly 712 a student. This extension makes it easy to impact your global community by automatically directing your donations to a charity of your choice. Lack of instructors leads to a greater number of students in classrooms which increases the number of resources needed.įamilies have trouble affording the cost of school and supplies. teachers without borders) there are not enough adults with proper training to help students with their learning There is also a lack of instructors as well. Lack of access to resources and or proper educationĮducational Resources, such as textbooks, can cost a lot and a lack of these can really affect a child's education Had in the back of my mind since its conception. Years hackathon and I was to be able to finally bring to light this idea I've continuously Jump ahead 2 years, imagine my excitement when I was told of the theme for this I wasn't until a couple of years later in my senior year of high school while participating in some volunteer work with other children, that I was reminded of my visit and came up with the initial idea of Global classroom, however, at that time it was merely a construct of an idea with no real name. The children learned everything they knew from schooling by their parents or from, as I later found out, by walking miles every morning and back to the next town over to attend their local school. Swear, you would think I had given these kids a million dollars.Īfter smiling non-stop from head to toe from the infectious joy these kids were generating from my little pencils, I noticed then that there was no recognizable school in this village. I took out the pencils, handed them out and, I
During one of our visits to a village, I hadīrought with me a pack of colorful rainbow pencils to hand out Here in the iSchool community, we believe in designing and developing technology-based solutions that positively impact the world. Every year, we bring together students with diverse skill sets to develop solutions that address a wide array of issues. All friendly, kind, playful, curious, andĬompletely accepting. The Winfo Hackathon is a collegiate hackathon. I was there was, surprisingly, not the exotic animals or beautiful Went on a trip to Africa with my best friend, her family, and
The main idea for the project actually came from a personalĮxperience of mine.
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