Session Overview
We need someone to help us establish a campaign to raise funds for seven teachers in Guatemala. They lost their funding due to a change in focus by their current funder. Classrooms will have to close this year due to lack of funding. We have access to a data base "foundation Search"and have submitted over 50 LOI's with no success and even getting one response.
Nonprofit Overview
Our Primary mission is to prepare rural Guatemalan children for success in primary school. 40% of rural children are failing when they arrive to the first grade because of poor preparation in their home situations, ie. illiterate mothers and fathers.
We provide curriculum, materials, books, and stipends for local literate people to meet daily for 2 hours with small groups of children to teach them basic preschool skills.
The curriculum is delivered to the teachers on their tablets in the form of pdf and mp3 files downloaded via a server.
These natural teachers are trained to use the activites and book guides contained in pdf files, and the tablets are also attached to bluetooth speakers to play mp3 files during the daily sessions. These audio files are used by the teachers to present daily themes through ongoing adventures of the characters.