Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 5,000+ learners

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2024):

Partnership began in 2020
3 skilled volunteering projects with 43 pro bono consultants
1,760+ pro bono hours committed
$370k+ value of pro bono consulting
$70,000 in grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Flying Kites is a Kenya-based nonprofit that believes education is the key to overcoming poverty. They are working in partnership with the Ministry of Education and a network of under-resourced public primary schools in rural Kenya to transform education in the area. Their approach involves several key initiatives:

Flying Kites focuses on upskilling teachers by providing them with training and resources that improve their capacity and ultimately enhance student outcomes. This addresses the issue that many primary school teachers in rural Kenya lack the necessary skills for the curriculum they teach.
Flying Kites invests in girls' education by training female teachers and supporting the adoption of "Girls United" Clubs. These clubs aim to promote sexual reproductive health and gender equality among girls in the schools.
Flying Kites supports healthy schools by introducing sustainable school meal programs and improving essential infrastructure such as clean water, hygiene facilities, and student safety measures. </aside>

🤝 Partnership Objectives:

Flying Kites partners with Team4Tech to leverage expertise and resources to develop a Technology Resource Lab at the Flying Kites Teacher Training Center. Access to technology and ICT training will help build digital literacy skills for thousands of rural teachers and students to ultimately advance the quality of both teaching and learning across Kenya’s South Kinangop district. With Team4Tech’s support, Flying Kites is working to improve teachers’ digital literacy, student engagement and outcomes, and record-keeping and reporting.

Flying Kites Partnership Overview

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

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Learner Growth

Student literacy and numeracy

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

Teachers' core tech skills

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

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Grant Budget Analysis:

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

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building out their Teacher Training Center by purchasing a workstation for the trainer, supplies, and transportation services to make the training center successful
improving tech and internet capacity by installing an Internet mast that provides stable internet access at their campus and in the larger community

Skilled Volunteering Projects:

November 2020: Skills for Impact Project - Season of Giving with Cadence (drop down for more)
May 2021: Virtual Strategic Project with NetApp (drop down for more)
February 2023: Virtual Strategic Project with NetApp (drop down for more)