Many undeveloped countries stay in a cycle of poverty due to lack of access to high quality education. In many cases, schools do not provide individuals with the opportunity to break trends of social immobility. Generally, students are not being taught the right types of skills and thought processes to give them vertical social mobility.
That being said, our idea is to create a network and a resource (an online based learning platform and social network) for students who wish to succeed in their lives. This network would teach students goal setting, leadership, business, entrepreneurship, scientific processes, and true problem solving skills. In addition to learning these skills, they would be connected with successful people from their own country as well as an array of diverse individuals from other parts of the world who are there to help mentor them though their educational journey.
This program would be self-sustainable in that it would provide services in an online format for a minimal cost. Classroom instruction would be delivered through remote on demand delivery, and personal mentoring would be performed through in-person/virtual volunteers.
Through developing and sustaining a strategy of connecting these students with peers and mentors who can teach them the skills to contribute to society in a meaningful way, these students will be taught the skills to learn how to fish rather than just be given a single day’s meal.
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