Women and Girls Digital Champions

Over 3.6 million Rwandan students and 94,600 teachers are out of school today due to COVID-19. The schools closure carry high social and economic costs for people across communities (UNESCO 2020) like Interrupted learning, confusion and stress for teachers, parents and child unprepared for distance and home schooling, GAP in childcare, increased exposure to violence and exploitation and Social isolation. However, substantial evidence shows that the most affected are women and girls (Women Win). IshuriOnline is committed to strengthening the capacities of 2,200 girls and young women students and teachers to access quality distance and home schooling education while also equipping them to accelerate E-learning integration in Rwandan schools. Accessing IshuriOnline blended learning (asynchronous and synchronous) system will reduce the barriers that prevent girls and young women from reaching key learning milestones while also mitigating the impact of traditional teaching and school closure.

According to INESCO, The pandemic has disrupted learning for 9 out of 10 students around the world (87%). The adoption of distance learning is far behind in low and emerging economies. Over 3.6 millions Rwandan and 94,600 teachers are out of school due to COVID-19. this crisis compound existing inequalities and disproportionately affect women and girls in education and if we don’t keep the doors open for education, it will be a challenge to ensure children and youth return and stay in school when schools reopen after closures. This is especially true of protracted closures and when economic shocks place pressure on children to work and generate income for financially distressed families and the teachers as well. Other challenged includes interrupted learning, confusion and stress for teachers, gap in child care, increased exposure to violence and exploitation, Social isolation, as well as Working parents who decided to leave their jobs and take care of their children. This results in wage loss and tend to negatively impact productivity

By bringing women and girls at the center of quality distance and homeschooling in Rwandan communities to address the effects of COVID-19 on education, IshuriOnline has built a blended learning management system(LMS) to strengthen the capacity of  2200 women and girls in education to accelerate the adoption of distance learning in their homes and schools while also mitigating the effects of traditional teaching and school closure

Ishurionline will work with 2,200 women and young girls who are currently out of quality education (2,000 students, 200 teachers) and will impact the lives of 55,000 households in 30 districts of Rwanda (1 Digital Champion to 25 households), 

Women targeted should have education background with at least 1 year experience in teaching while young girls are students in high school (11 years to 22 years old) who have the passion to become IshuriOnline Digital Champions.  the two groups targeted will be prepared for a self-regulated learning and working environment to transform themselves from self‐actualization to goal‐realization. this will be evidenced by working condition and benefits improved among the 200 women teachers, while 2,000 gain opportunities offered by the ecosystem that integrate  elearning systems in the communities

As we develop this solution, IshuriOnline has 25 teachers already registered 70% are women and have participated in the design of different solutions as well as conducting the user experience at learn.ishurionline.rw 

The problem the intervention is addressing is the lack of capacity to adopt distance and homeschooling and its social& Economic impact on the communities. The solution to equip 2200 women and girls respond to the government efforts to keep the doors open for education. the beneficiaries (2,200 women and young girls) will be given the opportunity to build their digital competencies while also impacting the communities. Our ultimate outcome is to reduce the barriers that prevent girls and young women to reach their learning objectives while also solving community problems as they explore E-learning as a hidden opportunity 

Young Girls and women (Teachers, and Children) are given an opportunity to develop interractive learning while also gaining skills and competencies to drive the transformational agenda in Rwandan Education to keep the learning open for education. 2200 women and young girls targeted in this project will become digital champions while also building a community of global learners in IshuriOnline learning and advance the status of schools' migration to E-learning.  

The project is under New application of an existing technology. We will use the existing Learning Management System and existing learning contents that are in many case delivered in one way. IshuriOnline teachers will use those high level materials to facilitate their students while also learning how modern education works.

We have already accreditation to access 2750 world class learning sessions ranging from Mathematics, sciences, Languages etc..

These learning materials are currently being uploaded on learn.ishurionline.rw by IshuriOnline Teachers, and we expect to onboard the students and more teacher soon while also seeking more accreditation. 

IshuriOnline uses the Learning Management System. our service provider is Electa LMS. Electa Learning Management System is especially designed for educators, online schools, universities with online training programs and degrees, individual tutors and trainers, companies and businesses.

More about this technology: https://www.e-lecta.com/

IshuriOnline has tested it and Electa Live was ranked among the best virtual classroom software. It is affordable and easy to use 

Our theory of change is explained below:

currently, our solution is serving 140 people (40 Teachers and 100 Students) our goal is to reach 2200 teachers and children in 2021 which is 20% of our overall target in the next 5 years (10,000)

Our goal within the next year is to significantly increase the participation of Women in our programs

in the next five years, IshuriOnline will have impacted 10,000 rwandan teachers and children become Digital Champions and play technical and leadership roles in the  the transformational agenda of the country to keep the doors open for education.

Financial

- The cost of hosting the contents at the learning Management System (subscription) is not easy to get

Technical: 

- It requires time to prepare the teachers who are not conversant with modern teaching

Legal:

Sometime content providers are not responsive yet we wish to partner with them to accredite us.

Market Barrier

Some Parents not conversant with Digital tools or ready to allow their children navigate digital contents due to lack of trust.

Financial Barriers

- The cost of hosting the contents at the learning Management System (subscription) is not easy to get

Our Strategy

Emphasizing on Local and international partnership, Starting small with our capacity and ensuring that the market is wide to accomodate other actors

Technical: 

- It requires time to prepare the teachers who are not conversant with modern teaching;

Our Strategy

Peer to Peer learning

Legal:

Sometime content providers are not responsive yet we wish to partner with them to accredite us.

Our Strategy

Promoting our brand

Market Barrier

Some Parents not conversant with Digital tools or ready to allow their children navigate digital contents due to lack of trust.

Our Strategy:

IshuriOnline is Teacher Centric, learner centered and  evidence based. together with the trachers, we will progressively reach the parents through them.

Full time: 3

Parttime: 20 teachers

Volunteers& learners: 11

the leadership team has experience in delivering and teaching digital enabled content. We were engaged in the nationalwide digital ambassadors program where some are already digital ambassadors. our solution is mainly driven by our passion and the a conducive environment to create and implement gender related solutions. Rwanda is the second in doing business in Africa and the first country globally to have a big number of women in both parliament and the cabinet. the co founder 10 years experience will enable us to successfully implement this solution. this includes also seasoned teachers who will lead the content delivery and our advisory board made of seasoned experts and we count on them to reach this goal

Our Priority was on indentifying content partners and we have so far JoAnn's School, Rock 'N Learn, Francais avec Pierre. these partners allowed us to use their materials available on Youtube

On the side of advisory, We have Dr. Emma Stodel and Kate Hayword

We provide platform for the teachers to learn, create and increase impact. 

Teachers with children under coaching are able to double the number of the students when using IshuriOnline. however, limited ressources especially the women hinder their willing to make impact

We offer three products

Connected Coach

Connected School

Special Program

Ordinary Program

We plan to charge these program once we have enough and qualified people to manage a bigger number. our priority for now is to build the capacity of the beneficiaries we are targeting in this project. 

Our solution is to reduce the barriers that prevent girls and young women from reaching key milestones while also mitigating the inpact of traditional teaching. We have learnt that school closure that we are experiencing today has economic and social crisis especially on women. The interruption of learning, confusion and stress for teachers our communities not prepared for distance learning, Social isolation, and the fact that E-learning management is a hidden opportunity in Rwanda as well as limited number of children accessing continous education. IshuriOnline Solution to bring women teachers and the young girls at the center of the national transformational agenda to keep the door open for education is viable and impactful

We are appling to be able to onboard 2200 women teachers and young girls to lead this noble cause that will impact over 10,000 community members in the years to come. 

IshuriOnline need the strenghten its advosory board with more members. these seasoned people will enable us to achieve our goals and effectively address challenges and opportunities as they arise.

We are looking for a seed fund of 10,000 USD to onboard the first cohort of 2,200 community members (only women) so that we break the gat in gender balance.

Our solution will also need explosure as we wish to bring onboard more members while also ensuring that the community is aware of this progra.

MIT focult of Education

MIT facult of Technology specifically E-learning

Solve members

Anyone whom we share the vision is welcomed.

We expect our partners to play a significant role in building our capacities, connecting us to opportunities and providing support where possible. 

Our solution can also work for the refugies and we have many refugy camps in Rwanda  and are experience a more challenging situation these days

By qualifying for Andan Prize, our intervention will reach thousand refugies in the refugy comp of Bulundians in Kireke districts and Congolese in the south.

the fund will be used to increase access to Internet for Women in the refugy camps while also onboarding their children to use IshuriOnline plaform for learning.

A more detailed plan will be provided is we are considered eligible for this noble prize. 

Our solution is to reduce the barriers that prevent girls and young women from reaching key milestones while also mitigating the inpact of traditional teaching. We have learnt that school closure that we are experiencing today has economic and social crisis especially on women. The interruption of learning, confusion and stress for teachers our communities not prepared for distance learning, Social isolation, and the fact that E-learning management is a hidden opportunity in Rwanda as well as limited number of children accessing continous education. IshuriOnline Solution to bring women teachers and the young girls at the center of the national transformational agenda to keep the door open for education is viable and impactful

Our team will use this fund to reach more women and girls in their communities

Our solutio