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<aside> 📌 The Poverty Stoplight program improves the lives of thousands of families through a process that allows them to be protagonists of their own stories of elimination of poverty. In addition to empowering, the data collected through the Poverty Stoplight have also proven to be useful for communities, organizations, companies, projects, and governments.
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Fundación Paraguaya seeks Team4Tech support in strengthening their technology programs in order to broaden their reach and scale. A stronger tech infrastructure will help Fundación Paraguaya in their mission to eliminate multidimensional poverty worldwide by enabling their programs to reach additional international organizations and ultimately more families. Better technology will enable exponential growth.
Fundación Paraguaya Partnership Overview
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The grant allowed Fundación Paraguaya to invest in their tech capacity, software systems, and infrastructure.
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The partnership impact along the years (starting in 2019) has been outstanding for Fundación Paraguaya. With Team4Tech’s support, they have improved their processes within their teams, innovated the Stoplight's platform for a global use, and exponentially grow the Poverty Stoplight tool both methodologically and technologically to be recognized worldwide.
In Spring 2019, Twilio Team4Tech Fellows (employee volunteers) went to Paraguay to improve the quality of the education and expand course offerings provided by the Penguin bootcamps. One year later, the FP and Penguin staff have built upon this foundation to further scale and create more opportunities. They have:
Twilio volunteers also trained bootcamp participants to pitch their innovative solutions in front of 50-100 international conference attendees at the annual Cerrito Forum 2019. The winning group continued to move their innovation even further: Caring Children developed an interactive website game designed for children and youth to discover different types of abuse. Kamila Da Ponte, founding member of Caring Children, shares:
“If it wasn’t for the Penguin bootcamp and the training workshops we had with the Twilio T4T volunteers, I don’t know if I was going to be motivated to carry out my projects and to discover my true passion, which is technology. The impact was amazing! … The opportunity we had to work with Twilio and the pitch workshop was and still is an essential tool for our presentations and we still use it every time we want to present Caring Children for big audiences such as in the tech competitions. If it weren’t for these organizations, we might not be doing what we are so proud of.”