Lack of electricity. Lack of textbooks. Lack of teachers. Lack of opportunities. In Tanzania, almost half of the population is under the age of 15 and the majority of this group live in rural areas with extremely limited educational opportunities. Many schools operate with barebones funding, staffed by underpaid teachers with access to few textbooks. There are few alternative learning solutions for “self study” that provide the quality educational content necessary for students to do well in their national exams and beyond.

In the Peruvian Amazon, an area that is severely underdeveloped, we work in Belén, Iquitos, a region often called “the floating city.” Most of its 65,000 inhabitants live in homes constructed from basic materials that are on stilts or built to float on the river. There is little to no technology and dwellings often lack basic services, such as  electricity and indoor plumbing.