Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 625+ students

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2025):

Partnership began in 2022
3 projects with 79 volunteers
1,800+ pro bono hours committed
$380,000+ value of pro bono consulting
$30,000 in grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 The vision of Barefoot College International (BCI) is to build self-reliant rural communities worldwide. Our mission is to demystify, democratize and decentralize technology to foster self-sufficiency and sustainability among the rural poor. Starting with training women as solar engineers, we believe in the change theory that 'women prosper, we prosper, the planet prospers'.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

BCI partners with Team4Tech to redesign the EduBox concept, integrate innovative applications, test & fine tune the same over the next 3-5 years with a vision to scale. This redesign will make their education more relevant, drive higher & faster learning outcomes, enhance digital participation of excluded communities & allow data-based decision making.

Barefoot College International Partnership Overview

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

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Learner Growth

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

Number of staff and volunteers trained in adobe applications

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

Number of young women trained in entrepreneurship and business in tech

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Barefoot College International has put their grant funding towards: