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Give a Gift that Keeps on Giving!

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Give a Gift that Keeps on Giving!

Today is #GivingTuesday!  Join this amazing movement of giving to great causes this holiday season. Do Good As You Go is excited to share three wonderful opportunities to give gifts that keep giving….Education!

These are unique opportunities for you to support our local organizations and their communities, and join in the efforts to offer the Global Photography Program (India), access the amazing educational programming of Khan Academy/KA Lite (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia) and create a mobile children’s library (Mexico). Please read below and consider giving a gift to one of these great projects!

The Global Photography Program is one of our most popular programs, which has touchedthe lives and developed the artistic skills of many of the workshop participants. We plan to significantly expand this program in the upcoming year, with the first stop in India!  We currently have a volunteer eager to start workshops at the The Children’s College, run bythe Pipal Tree organization in Bangalore, India- with your help we can make it happen! By donating cameras and equipment, we can expand this successful program to India, and increase volunteer opportunities for our travelers! Read more about theprogram here.

Support the Global Photography Program!

 

To make a donation of $160 via Paypal for a camera/Photography Program development click here. 

Just the size of a credit card!
The powerful Raspberry Pi will enable us to spread the

KA Lite Program.

 

Volunteers Jenn and Witt Sparks, working in partnership with the Foundation for Learning Equality, have been instrumental in bringing the Khan Academy/KA Lite learning curricula, to several of our partner organizations in US and Canada. To continue this success, we plan to bring this amazing educational program to five of our partners in Latin America in the upcoming year!

Getting Khan Academy videos to our partners will be easier than ever with the help of theRaspberry Pi!  This low-cost computer is capable of everything a desktop computer can do, at only about the size of a credit card! The small size and low-cost makes the Raspberry Pi an ideal vehicle for bringing KA Lite programming to our partners, acting as a server and allowing our partners to use their existing setup to access KA Lite’s thousands of educational videos.

Join in and help us bring this program to Latin America!  The Raspberry Pi Model B+ can be purchased for as little as $35 and will help our volunteers bring world-class education tothe youth and communities of our partners. Read more about the initiative here.

Donate a Raspberry Pi!

To make a donation of $35 via Paypal for the Raspberry Pi B+/KA Lite Program development click here.

CamionArte-Classroom on Wheels in Guanajuato, Mexico

The Project CamionArte has become a great collaboration between Do Good As You Goand our local partner in Mexico, Colectivo TAN 473. Classroom on Wheels, a mobile classroom, has brought great enrichment programming to undeserved groups of youth and has helped realize community-based arts projects in marginalized neighborhoods around Guanajuato.

Currently the mobile classroom has been outfitted with permanent shelves to carry 300+ books to the children and families of communities, who have little access to viable literary programs in their schools or the money to purchase books. With Kindles and downloaded children’s books, we will be able to expand the Classroom on Wheels library with varied ability and themed books, encouraging learning in an area where many school-aged children are barely reading at all. With your support, we can unlock a new world of learning for these children! 

Help Build A Mobile Library!

To make a donation of $99 via Paypal for a Kindle/Mobile Library development click here.

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Giving Thanks and Spreading Access to World-Class Education!

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Giving Thanks

We continue to celebrate #GivingTuesday, a day dedicated to help put the GIVE back into the giving season. This week, meet two of our volunteers, who have been making an impact by spreading access to world-class education. Then, learn all about the amazing Raspberry Pi, and how, with your help, we can increase educational opportunities for the communities of our partner organizations with this state-of-the-art technology. 


Making A World-Class Education Accessible to Everyone!

Jenn Sparks showing students KA Lite at the Inuvik Youth Centre, Inuvik, NW Territories.

 

“Having traveled extensively in the developing world, Jen and I believe that an education is the key to a better life with more opportunities and more rewards. We believe that KA Lite is one tool that can be used by people everywhere to help achieve that education if they so choose. We are devoting part of our time traveling to making that resource available to communities in need.” -Volunteer, Witt Sparks

Overlanding couple Jenn and Witt Sparks, working in partnership with the Foundation for Learning Equality, aim to change access to education through technology on a mass scale. Armed with the powerful Khan Academy curricula, the Sparks have brought the free educational video content to several of our partner organizations and their communities with limited online access. This offline version of Khan Academy provides instructional videos and associated interactive exercises in multiple languages, on everything from algebra to art history. This allows students to work independently at their own pace and on subjects of their choice, reinforcing topics they learned in school and ensuring that advanced learners are challenged while less advanced learners aren’t left behind.
 
With little more than a loaded thumbdrive, the Sparks pioneered the KA Lite installations in 4 native community centers and a girls’ home at Do Good As You Go partner locations in both Canada and Mexico, bringing 40,000 relevant educational videos and exercises to underprivileged youth and adults. They also developed detailed installation guidelines, setting the groundwork for future installations and enabling other volunteers to continue their initiative. 

Help Us Bring KA Lite to Latin America with Raspberry Pi!

Just the size of a credit card!
The powerful Raspberry Pi will enable us to spread the KA Lite Program.

Getting Khan Academy videos to our partners is now easier than ever with the help of the Raspberry Pi! This low-cost computer, available from the UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation, is capable of everything a desktop computer can do, at only about the size of a credit card. The small size and low-cost make the Raspberry Pi an ideal vehicle for bringing KA Lite programming to our partners, acting as a server and allowing our partners to use their existing setup to access KA Lite’s thousands of educational videos.

What are the benefits of using the Raspberry Pi?

  • It provides enough space to hold all of the thousands of KA Lite videos, no longer requiring our partner organizations to use their computers to hold this content.
  • It stores the content safely, thereby eliminating the risk of jeopardizing KA Lite content through changes in computer configurations or updates.
  • It allows us to have the simplest installations possible, leaving our partners with a credit card-sized physical KA Lite package, capable of growing and moving with them.

“I was very excited about Khan Academy. After Jenn and Witt introduced me and helped me to understand how it all worked I immediately set the kids up with the program. I had 90 kids signed up and coming into the center and using it. It was great!…I think that it would be amazing to have the KA Lite installed here locally.”
Peppo, Volunteer Coordinator, Oaxaca Street Children Grassroots

Our goal is to spread this amazing program and technology to at least five of our partners in the upcoming year-with your help, we can make it happen!

We are asking for your support this #GivingTuesday . The Raspberry Pi Model B+ can be purchased for as little as $35 (incredible!), and will help our volunteers bring world-class education to the youth and communities of our partners, such as Oaxaca Street Children Grassroots.

Donate a Raspberry Pi!

Want to learn more about the Raspberry Pi?  Check out this video!
Want to get involved with bringing KA Lite to our partners?  Email us!

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 Thank You for your support!