Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 400 Kantaya children | 103 Podera trainees

Served to Date: 1,500+ Kantaya children | 220+ Podera trainees

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2023):

• 2 projects with 12 pro bono consultants and 4 volunteers
• $15,000+ in-kind support
• $30,000 in grant support
• 500+ direct beneficiaries </aside>

🤝 Partnership Objectives:

The next 3-5 years will set the baseline for further scaling up of the Kantaya model across Peru. Kantaya’s longer term vision is creating a model that can be used across Latin America and beyond.

Background:

<aside> 📌 Kantaya's mission is to promote quality education and holistic development for children living in impoverished communities in Peru. It does it through two programs, Kantaya After School and Kallpay Teacher's School.

</aside>

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" />

Kantaya utilized their grant on technology, software, new infrastructure, and to invest in the development of the platform for the Podera program. First, they strengthen their platform for Teaching assistants, which aligns with of their long-term goals, by investing in platform technical support and graphic design support. Kantaya also invested in an M&E system, which allows them to improve the incorporation of KPIs and measuring results, which is another long-term goal. Lastly, Kantaya expanded their tech capacity through new software, laptops, desktops, and webcams, improving student outcomes and educational materials.

</aside>

Pro Bono Capacity-Building Projects:

• December 2021: Design for Impact Project with New Relic (drop down for more)
• December 2022: University Project with Dartmouth (drop down for more)

Team4Tech Impact:

The partnership with Team4Tech has provided Kantaya with both technical and financial support, allowing them to continuing growing their capacity.

• In both the project with Dartmouth and through the grant, Kantaya has had the opportunity to develop the online platform (latest version of the Moodle) that was launched March 2023 for Podera, a program that trains women as Teacher Assistants.
  • It is important to highlight how Moodle is crucial in its offline abilities for Kantaya. Many of the students Kantaya works with live in rural neighborhoods lacking access to both the internet and digital devices. Team Dartmouth noted this hurdle that Kantaya faced and leveraged the offline capabilities of Moodle so that students may continue to engage in their education remotely from home.
  • This allowed Kantaya to achieve their goal of developing and implementing a user-friendly and easily accessible educational platform for Teaching Assistants.
• Also through the Dartmouth project, Kantaya collaborated on the presentation to achieve greater international visibility, and identified tools for digitization of the information and educational platforms that allow offline incorporation to the current platform they have.
  • This project supported Kantaya’s goal of creating a community of donors, volunteers, teachers and students through Customer Relationship Management, as the team prepared a technical solution that works to digitize the collection of key teacher and student information, clean the data, and integrate this into Kantaya’s CRM database
• Kantaya is very grateful for the relationship with Chris Meehan, the Program Director. Kantaya has always felt that he is willing to present them with opportunities in order to strengthen their growth.