Slum2School Launches First Virtual Classroom
Slum2School, a volunteer-driven social development organization has launched its first virtual learning classroom onboarding 948 less privileged kids remotely.
In a statement released via Twitter, the organization said “Today, we are incredibly happy to have launched and onboarded 948 children living in hard to reach communities onto our virtual classroom. Join us as we create virtual access to education using frontier 21st-century tech for 10,000 kids.”
Slum2School is an organization transforming the society by empowering underserved children in slums and remote communities with quality education, entrepreneurial skills, and psychosocial support to enable them to realize their full potential and become social reformers.
Founded in 2012 by Social Entrepreneur Orondaam Otto, the organization recognizes that there are severe shortcomings in the educational sector in Africa and is committed to transforming the lives of Africa’s most precious resource. The organization provides educational scholarships, creates safe learning spaces and uses 21st-century pedagogy and technology to improve learning outcomes and provide several other health and psychosocial supports for underserved children in slums and hard to reach communities.
“About 3 months ago we saw that thousands of our kids in secondary and primary schools across slums and underserved communities weren’t learning and many were being engaged in various educational activities. We took a very audacious decision to attempt to build the first Virtual Learning Classroom/Studio in Nigeria and get digital tablets and laptops to thousands of our kids to aid virtual learning.” said Otto Orondaam, Social Entrepreneur and Founder, Slum2school Africa.
Slum2School collaborates with the government, private sector, individuals, civil society organizations and other developmental agencies towards building a resourceful and sustainable network. Most importantly building a network of socially responsible community of volunteers committed to social reformation.
Starting off with a student capacity of 948 children, the goal of the new virtual classroom is to reach 10,000 underserved learners through a virtual and cluster learning program. The development of connecting students during the home-based learning experience through technology proves very useful at this time.
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Slum2School envisions a world where every child has access to quality education, good health, and a happy family.
To support more kids or get more information on the virtual learning program, kindly visit slum2school.org/donate.