Our Programs

Resources

We provide technology, lab equipment, calculators, and other crucial learning resources.

Textbooks

We provide learning materials to schools at a 1:1 student-textbook ratio.

Mentorship

We support schools by connecting students with mentors and creating peer-learning opportunities.

Digital Inclusion Bootcamp

We introduce students to computer programming, basic circuitry, entrepreneurship, and the design thinking framework, an iterative human-centered process for creative problem-solving. The first cohort of participants at each school has the opportunity to train as facilitators and continue the program in their schools.

School-Specific Programs

We recognize that each school exists within its own social and cultural context, and may face unique challenges. Therefore, we partner with schools to assess their needs and develop need-specific solutions. ​We often collaborate with other nonprofits and companies to creatively address the needs of our partner schools. 

Some of our School-Specific Projects

Vidya Mandir School

Bahjoi, India

Science Laboratories

Vidya Mandir School serves 700+ secondary school students from Bahjoi and the surrounding regions. School for a Village established 3 fully-furnished science laboratories for chemistry, biology, and physics. We provided an assortment of lab equipment including microscopes, glassware, reagents, electronic circuit parts, prism, pendulums, thermometers, and hot plates. Over 1000 students have used these labs.

The national curriculum in India includes hands-on experiments. These segments of the curriculum were previously skipped. With the completion of these new science labs, students are now finishing the entirety of the national curriculum and performing well.

Daraja Academy

Nanyuki, Kenya

Personalized Learning

Daraja Academy is a boarding school serving 120+ girls experiencing material poverty.

Students come to Daraja Academy from diverse geographic, tribal, and religious backgrounds with vastly different levels of competency in English and Science. As a result, teaching at any one level to all students is simply not effective. School for a Village has partnered with Choosito!, an NSF-funded student search engine and digital library, to bring high-quality, personalized resources to Daraja students.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, School for a Village provided mobile devices, enabling girls to engage in remote learning.

Iembeni Secondary School

Thika, Kenya

Learning Materials

Iembeni Secondary School is a public school serving 120+ students from Iembeni Village.

​School for a Village has provided calculators, geometric sets, and laboratory equipment, enabling Iembeni Secondary School students to complete the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) for the first time. The supplies are being incorporated in each student’s day-to-day learning. 

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