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Technology For A Cause - Enhancing Skills Empowering Kids

place Pakistan

Using technology to enhance skills and empower under privileged children on the society

The main purpose was to use technology to enhance numeracy and literacy skills of under privileged children in the society. These children have the potential but lack the resources and learning opportunity to develop their skills. Technology was used to connect them with global learning opportunities. They were introduced to the same valuable resources used by elete schools in Pakistan.

Overview

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Web presence

2016

Established

50

Children

1

Countries
Target group
Students basic
Updated
July 2024
More empowered individuals in the society who can decide between what is good and what is bad! they can use their skills to earn a better living for themselves. Individuals who are mindful of their actions and can help make this country a safer place to live, share ideas, help and support each other. Most importantly make quality education education accessible to all. To bridge the digital divide.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

A number of reasons, I am passionate to work with education technology and I wanted to use my skills and abilities to empower the under privileged children in my home town Peshawar, to provide quality education experiences. I had time and I thought of utilising it in an effective way giving back to the society. It is great to see the children in my class interning at the same school after years.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

I work voluntarily at two schools in Peshawar, city in KPK province in Pakistan. One of the schools is a school for street children (Ranaa Child Welfare Foundation) and the other school is a school for orphan kids (SOS Children Village) in Peshawar. I spend an hour or 1.5 hour thrice a week at least voluntarily with the schools and do various numeracy, literacy, ICT and arts crafts activities with these children. The children in SOS Children village were gifted around 6 tablets. They used to do different numeracy and literacy activities on tablets. The children at both schools participated in a Oneworld Classrooms art project. Their art work depicting their culture was shared globally with students. The students also participated in a book reading project of iEARN with a school in New York. They have worked on a number of edtech resources including Khan Academy, GSUITE for education, Scratch, iEARN projects, Coding among others. All activities enhance 21st century skills in learners.

How has it been spreading?

The innovation is active in two schools currently, whenever I have free time I work voluntarily with the children at these schools. They do activities on computers mostly. But we do a lot of arts and craft work as well. The kids recently learned about newspaper craft and made some wonderful objects. These children are native pushto speakers so it was initially very challenging to teach in English. I used to teach both in Urdu and English at times. The kids were keen learners, they come from backgrounds that are very tough financially etc. They are aged between 5 to 15 years or so. They are given proper meals at the schools and a proper doctor checks up on them.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

I have a proper drafted activity plan for the kids at these schools, I can share the activities. The Facebook page has all the videos and details of the activities done with the children over these years. People can get an insight and idea. They can implement the same activities in their schools too.

Implementation steps

Steps to implement the innovation
The first step is to identify any schools that are working with the under privileged children in the community. The next step would be to get in contact with the concerned heads or owners and share the idea of initiating a project. The next step would be to draft a plan , timelines, resources, objectives, content to be taught to these children. The next step would be to share the plan with the heads/owners to evaluate content, resource availability, timings etc followed by implementation.

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