QUALITY EDUCATION LEVERAGING STEM, AI & CLEAN ENERGY INNOVATION
Mission:
Our mission is to empower girls and women in traditional communities where education is often prohibited. Through STEM education, clean energy, and innovative programs, we aim to break barriers of inequality, reduce energy poverty, foster resilience, and create changemakers who uplift their communities while bridging the digital divide.
Goals:
1. Access to Education: Establish solar-powered e-STEM hubs to provide education for girls in underserved regions.
2. Gender Equality: Use STEM and AI tools to reduce child marriages and gender-based violence, challenging societal norms.
3. Employability: Equip girls and women with digital literacy, coding, and entrepreneurial skills for economic independence.
4. Energy Poverty Reduction: Overcome infrastructure challenges by utilizing clean energy for reliable electricity access.
5. Sustainability: Create environmentally friendly learning spaces powered by renewable energy.
6. Empowering Change: Inspire leadership among girls, enabling them to transform their communities and drive systemic change.
7. Digital Inclusion: Expand access to technology and education, alleviating poverty and bridging the digital divide.
Green Hope Foundation is committed to transforming lives, advancing equality, and promoting sustainability to create brighter futures for underserved communities worldwide.
Solar-Powered E-STEM Education
Green Hope Foundation is providing e-STEM education to girls from the migrant community, of the Rann of Kutch by building a solar-powered computer lab that provides them with e-STEM education and are exposed to AI tools, helping them with English comprehension. In the higher grades, girls learn to use AI for coding, getting familiar with platforms like Scratch. This curriculum helps to empower them to become changemakers in their own spheres of influence, which, in turn, will enable them to have a better quality of life and protect the planet at the same time.
Academy of Hope for Women & Girls
We have started our first school, in a rural community in Bangladesh - Green Hope Foundation's Academy of Hope for Women and Girls – that is solar-powered with a STEM and AI learning focussed curriculum for girls, to help them bridge the digital divide. In the evenings, it operates a vocational skills development program for adult women, teaching them weaving and sewing, adapt AI tools in design, to help them become entrepreneurs. In Bangladesh, there’s been a 65% reduction in child marriages in the last 5 years amongst the girls in the 16 villages who are a part of Green Hope Foundation's education programs.
Solar-Powered STEM & STEAM Lab
Green Hope Foundation's Solar-Powered STEM & STEAM Lab in Liberia provides young people with the tools and skillsets to use STEM, STEAM and digital literacy to get good jobs and uplift their community out of poverty, moving away from a life of drugs and crime. This is our way of bridging the digital divide & providing skills-based education that empowers the youth for their future.
Sustainability Academies
We have devised a unique concept called 'sustainability academies', which are tailor-made workshops and conferences that are led by children and young people, to uncover the drivers of conflict and violence, as well as the dynamics that underpin them, in order to create tangible and feasible interventions that harness education's ability for human and planetary rights across the world.
Solar-Powered Mobile Library
Our Solar-Powered Mobile Library is a unique Education for Sustainable Development tool that leverages a combination of clean energy and youth stewardship to provide education to out of school children, especially girls in an ultra-conservative and poverty-stricken community. The mobile library consists of a solar-powered van full of books, a seating space, with lights and fan that provide children a safe space to study even in bad weather. The van travels from village to village with our primarily female youth members from within the community who have been trained by us. They not only distribute books to children, they also read them out and conduct story-telling sessions for young learners or those who cannot read.
Creative Modes of Communication
Through our sustainability academies, we work to ensure a paradigm shift that promotes the full realization of an individual's potential to become a changemaker, using creative modes of communication like music, art, dance, drama, sport, eco-fashion, poetry and writing to foster peaceful environments by enabling children to have fun and learn about living in harmony with each other and the planet simultaneously.
