Thaki was created in response to a growing gap in access to education for children affected by crisis and poverty. Across the Middle East and beyond, millions of children, particularly refugees and displaced learners, are unable to access meaningful digital learning. In the last two years alone, over 12 million children in the region have been displaced, and half of its 220 million children live in war-affected contexts (UNICEF, 2025).
Schools, both formal and non-formal, serving these communities are often overstretched and under-resourced, with limited access to reliable electricity, connectivity, trained teachers, and modern learning tools. As a result, high-quality digital education remains accessible only to the most privileged learners, deepening both the digital and educational divide. At the same time, millions of still usable computers are discarded each year, contributing to environmental damage and wasted resources. Thaki connects these challenges; bringing together discarded hardware and unmet educational needs to expand access to learning in contexts where traditional solutions do not reach.
At its core, Thaki is built on a simple premise: education should work wherever children are, not only where infrastructure allows.
In practice, Thaki transforms classrooms and learning spaces into offline digital learning environments. Schools and learning centers receive refurbished laptops preloaded with a curated platform of interactive educational content in Arabic and English, covering digital literacy, core subjects, life skills, and creativity tools. All content works fully offline, enabling consistent access in low-connectivity settings.
Learning is flexible and user-driven. Students can engage in self-paced learning, exploring topics independently based on their level and interests, while teachers integrate the platform into lessons to reinforce concepts, assign activities, and foster more interactive, learner-centered classrooms.
Teachers are supported through the Teacher Digital Toolkit, Thaki’s proprietary training solution with over 80 modules, also available as a mobile app, enabling educators to effectively integrate technology into teaching practices.
Thaki also integrates wellbeing through Nour’s World, a social-emotional learning program that supports children’s emotional development and resilience in crisis-affected contexts.
Evidence shows strong impact: over 85% of teachers and students rate the content as effective, with documented improvements in digital literacy, engagement, and classroom participation. Pre- and post-assessments and external evaluations further demonstrate gains in children’s social-emotional wellbeing and behavior.
Thaki has scaled across the Middle East and North Africa, expanding from Lebanon, Jordan and the UAE to Egypt, Syria and Palestine, while also supporting Syrian refugee communities in the Netherlands demonstrating adaptability across crisis and regional contexts.
In the past 2 years, Thaki has expanded through partnerships with schools, NGOs and corporate actors, onboarding over 76 new organizations and increasing deployment in underserved communities. This includes collaborations with partners such as Deloitte for laptop donations, and UNRWA for curriculum provision, among many others.
To increase accessibility and flexibility, Thaki has made key components of its offering, Nour’s World and the Teacher Digital Toolkit, available as mobile apps, enabling teachers and learners to access content and training across contexts.
Thaki’s work has gained international recognition, including the TRT World Citizen Award (Education) and the Schwab Foundation Social Innovator of the Year award at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
To date, Thaki has reached over 60,000 learners, distributed more than 6,500 devices, and partnered with over 220 organizations, with strong adoption by teachers and students.
Over the next 2–3 years, Thaki aims to scale its offline learning system to new geographies, deepen impact within existing ones, expand teacher training, strengthen localized content, and grow the reach of its platform and mobile tools.
Over the past 1–2 years, Thaki has strengthened its innovation by improving usability, accessibility, and relevance based on continuous feedback from teachers and learners. The platform has been refined with a more intuitive interface and expanded curated content, including new resources on AI literacy and inclusive education.
A key development has been the launch of the Teacher Digital Toolkit mobile app, increasing access to professional development and enabling more flexible, on-demand learning for educators.
Thaki has also introduced Nour’s World, a social-emotional learning program co-developed with TNO and designed to support children’s wellbeing in crisis-affected contexts. Integrated into the platform and available as an app, it expands the solution beyond academic learning to address the needs of the whole child.
These enhancements reflect Thaki’s ongoing, user-driven approach to innovation, ensuring the solution evolves in response to real classroom needs while remaining practical and scalable.
To try Thaki, contact our team at info@thaki.org to explore a partnership or request a demonstration of the platform. We work with schools, NGOs, and education partners to assess local needs and define the most suitable implementation approach. A short video demo can also be found on this page: https://thaki.org/content-resource-guide/.
Thaki provides an end-to-end solution: we source and refurbish laptops, equip them with a curated offline learning platform in Arabic and English, and deploy them in learning environments. Partners receive ready-to-use devices, along with onboarding and access to the Teacher Digital Toolkit (web and app) to support educators in integrating technology into teaching.
Implementation typically involves introducing the devices into classrooms or learning spaces, activating teachers through onboarding and training, and using the platform in structured or self-directed learning. Thaki provides ongoing technical guidance and gathers feedback through surveys and field engagement to continuously improve the solution.
The model is flexible and adaptable across contexts, functioning without internet connectivity and supporting both formal and non-formal education settings.
In parallel, key components of Thaki’s model—Nour’s World and the Teacher Digital Toolkit—are freely accessible as self-guided tools, allowing teachers, learners, and parents to use them independently, on-demand, wherever learning is happening.
