Overview by the Numbers:

*Currently Serving: 10,000 learners

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• Partnership began in 2021
• 3 projects with 83 pro bono consultants
• 875+ pro bono hours committed
• $183,000 value of pro bono consulting
• $45,000 in grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Since 2002, Kenya Connect’s vision has been an empowered rural community that learns, grows and thrives together. Their mission is to ensure rural children leave education with options, by developing the skills, values, and pathways to thrive.

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🤝Partnership Objectives:

Kenya Connect partners with Team4Tech to establish an EdTech hub and makerspace where students, teachers, and community members can develop various digital skills. Team4Tech also supports Kenya Connect’s goals to improve their LRC computer lab, increase teachers using tech, and ensure students are confident digital learners.

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

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Learner Growth

• Basic coding skills
• Adobe classes
• Robotics classes

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

• Teacher digital workshops

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

• Basic Chromebook digital proficiency
• Creation of EdTech Hub

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Kenya Connect puts their grant budget toward:

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• strengthening tech capacity with new chromebooks, desktop computers, Adobe software, and Lego kits. These all contribute to Kenya Connect’s long-term goals of increasing teachers’ usage of technology in the classroom fostering digital creativity for students.
• improving internet infrastructure with routers and internet bundles, allowing teachers to use technology more frequently in the classroom
• teacher training and workshops, building teachers’s digital skills for adoption of classroom technology.

Skilled Volunteering Projects:

• February 2022: Design for Impact with Adobe (drop down for more)
• March 2022: Virtual Strategic Project with Adobe (drop down for more)
• September 2022: Program with Raspberry Pi Foundation (drop down for more)

Partnership Impact: