Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 600 learners | 23 staff

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2022):

• 1 project with 12 pro bono consultants
• 600+ pro bono hours committed
• 126k+ value of pro bono consulting
• 450+ Direct Beneficiaries </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:

By partnering with Team4Tech, The African Soup will evolve in its operations and services to provide high quality, practical education to students, teachers, and community members. They will have access to appropriate technology, the skills needed to use technology on a regular basis, and the capacity to sustain and expand their use of technology well beyond the partnership terms with Team4Tech.

The African Soup’s vision is to have their staff and students empowered rather than intimidated by technology. Their staff will use technology on a daily basis, capturing organizational knowledge, sharing learning content, and tracking program progress. Their reporting will be timely and accurate, and their monitoring and evaluation system will be optimized so that they can collect and analyze data with efficiency and accuracy to make operational improvements.

After 3-5 years of partnership with Team4Tech, The African Soup’s school and office-based staff will be proficient in the use of a range of technological resources including Google applications, Microsoft Office programs, other web-based information sharing platforms. Their students and community members have a level of computer literacy that allows them to excel in secondary school, tertiary education, and their careers. They will have the resources, staff, and plans in place to ensure their continued success using technology and have the capacity to identify future needs and the financial and technical means to meet them.

The African SOUP Partnership Overview

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Using the grant, The African SOUP was able to make large strides in obtaining new technology, software, and infrastructure. SOUP was able to grow their ICT with new computers and desktops. The African SOUP also invested in power sources with this grant to help mitigate electricity issues faced due to their rural location. Regarding software, The African SOUP purchased new photo/editing software, wireless access points, accounting software, among other programs. Lastly, The African SOUP invested in capacity building trainings for teachers, and ICT system maintenance and troubleshooting

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Pro Bono Capacity-Building Projects:

• September 2021: Virtual Strategic Project with AppDynamics (drop down for more)
• Summer 2023: Middlebury Project (drop down for more)

Team4Tech Impact:

Team4Tech has supported the African SOUP through technical and financial support.

• The 2021 project with AppDynamics supported The African Soup through its relevance to their long-term goals for a partnership with Team4Tech and their overall vision and success for this partnership.
  • This project aligns with their goals of use of technology to support teacher's practice and access to information for teaching purposes and use of technology by SOUP students to support knowledge building and computer usage skills by training staff and teachers of ITC and designing home-learning programs for students.
  • The Computer Lab supports The African Soup’s greater vision of increasing computer literacy for students and community members.
  • ICT training allows school and office-based staff to become proficient in the use of a range of technological resources.
• The African SOUP has been using their grants to further support their long-term goals and align support with projects. First, they have been continually increasing their number of laptops and desktops per year, which fits their need of growing their ICT lab. The computer lab was also focused on in the AppDynamics Project in 2021 and many purchases made in the following years align with the recommendations presented in this project. Their purchases also support their long-term goals of using technology to supporting teachers access to information and student’s knowledge building by investing in new software, tablets, laptops, etc.