Irish charity Camara Education has joined an effort spearheaded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) to deliver e-learning programmes to thousands of marginalised girls in Kenya.
Led by global satellite operator Avanti Communications, Project iMlango will se Camara joined by smartcard and digital payments system provider sQuid and online maths tutoring provider, Whizz Education.
The integrated programme aims to improve learning outcomes for 25,675 marginalised girls, across 195 Kenyan primary schools.
The programme will see schools outfitted with broadband connections, hardware and e-learning resources along with a smart card system incentivising attendance with small payments and a real-time achievement tracking system to show how well students are participating in their classes.
Speaking about Camara’s involvement in the project, chief executive John Fitzsimons said: “Project iMlango is hugely exciting for Camara Education. It is an honour to work with the Department for International Development for the first time. It is also exciting to work with such a diverse and successful set of companies in the consortium. In addition, the Monitoring and Evaluation results will, no doubt, demonstrate that when ICT in Education is done properly it has a significant impact on the quality of education. However for all our excitement, it is nothing compared to that of the Kenyan students who will have access to a hugely improved education shortly.”
The programme has been designed with the ability to measure and benchmark Project iMlango’s impact in real-time. Data includes daily attendance statistics at the whole school level for over 100,000 children, as well as measurement of access to the learning platform and charting each student’s individual progress over time.
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