Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 600 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 projects with 26 pro bono consultants
• 8,181+ pro bono hours committed
• $1,718,010 value of pro bono consulting
• $60,000 in grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 The African SOUP’s mission is to empower communities through national primary education change, informed by our community-development programming.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

• The African SOUP partners with Team4Tech to leverage technology and training to evolve its operations and services to provide high-quality, practical education to students, teachers, and community members.
• With Team4Tech’s support, The African SOUP is working towards their staff confidently using technology on a daily basis, capturing organizational knowledge, sharing learning content, and tracking program progress with timely and accurate reporting. SOUP is optimizing their monitoring and evaluation system to collect and analyze data with efficiency and accuracy to make operational improvements.
• Team4Tech is supporting SOUP in developing computer literacy in their students and community members. This digital literacy will allow them to excel in secondary school, tertiary education, and future careers.

The African SOUP Partnership Overview

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

• Increase in student engagement levels
• Increase in students expressing a sense of enthusiasm, curiosity, and enjoyment in their academic pursuits
• Increase in students actively engaging in real-world projects that require the application of subject knowledge, data processing skills, and effective information presentation using technology

Learner Growth

• Increase the percentage of students proficient in basic ICT skills
• Increase in students' proficiency in independently sourcing information, analyzing data, and presenting findings through digital platforms
• Increase in students demonstrating proficiency in utilizing technology to research, analyze data, and create presentations across different school subjects
• Improvement in students' ability to apply technology tools to deepen their understanding of key concepts across various subjects

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

• Increase in the proficiency of teachers in leveraging technology for effective lesson planning, data analysis, and content delivery
• Increase in teachers' proficiency in utilizing technology tools for interactive lessons, formative assessments, and multimedia presentations
• Increase in teachers actively participating in online forums, webinars, and collaborative platforms to enhance their own knowledge and engagement with educational technology

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" /> The African SOUP puts their grant budget toward:

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• Growing their ICT infrastructure with new laptops, tablets, and desktops
• Mitigating electricity issues by investing in power sources
• Building out digital programming with photo editing software, wireless access points, accounting software, and other programs
• Bolstering tech capacity with ICT system maintenance and troubleshooting
• Improving teacher skills with capacity building trainings