Learning Equality: Revolutionizing the Offline World- Giving a Chance for Global, Quality Education
https://learningequality.org/
Ever since I was a little girl I’ve had a passion for giving, I wanted to provide, to help, to volunteer however I could, anywhere I could. After college my career blossomed into full swing. I spent my first six months out of college with a pharmaceutical company, all I wanted was to help people get eh medicine that they needed. It was short lived, I was unhappy and unfulfilled, so I left. 2 more months passed and I found myself working for a nimble non-profit with one goal: we raise money to give back. Never had I had so much freedom, on my first day I was told find a cause you care about and partner with them- meet them, figure out how best you, and all of us, can help them. So I set out searching. a few days passed and in some matter of universal collusion we all stumbled upon one amazing cause; global, offline, quality education created and distributed by the Foundation for Learning Equality. The Foundation for Learning Equality is a group of collective geniuses trying to make the world a better place. They are made up of UCSD cognitive scientists, software engineers, inters, and grad students and they were spending money out of pocket trying to get their project noticed and deployed. And they did- they had amazing success with their first platform. Three years ago the team released KA Lite. In those three years it has reached 2.1 million learners in over 160 countries. KA Lite is an open source offline Khan Academy platform and was implemented in rural schools, orphanages, community centers, refugee camps, prisons, and homes. From there it was carried through the “sneakernet” to completely offline communities. Now, I work with Foundation for Learning Equality daily, we offer pizza and advice and they take some of both. AT this point they have a campaign to raise money and awareness for their newest platform Kolibri and it is crunch time. I am doing everything in my power to try and get the word out for them. I sit at my desk trying to find email addresses and phone numbers for people I ever thought in a million years I would be trying to contact- all because I believe in this group. I believe in their product. Part of the reason that I feel so strongly about them is because of their leader. There has never been anyone so moving as the software lead architect- Jamie Alexandre. Jamie’s compassion and conviction for global quality education leaves you stunned, instantaneously feeling the magnitude and exceptional reach of Kolibri. In his own words, “we want to be a platform that empowers people to learn from locally relevant content… that really empowers them to create their own educational ecosystem.” His partner in the project, Richard Tibbles, Learning Lead, added to that “we don’t want to put extra barriers in the way of these people who already have so many barriers to their learning.” This is the type of group when you walk in a room you feel their energy, their blood, sweat and tears. This is the type of project you can’t walk away from, once you understand the enormity, the reach, the potential there is no going back. So I sit here, at my desk brain storming- how can I share, how can I contribute even the smallest bit such a gargantuan cause? Because this is what I do- I help people, however I can. This group, this amazing group, is beyond worth my time, your time, all of our time, and they need all of our help. Foundation for Learning Equality is going to change the world; the world just doesn’t know it yet.
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