What We Do

Education

Access to a quality education

Education opens the world for the next generation. By educating the children at the TriKa school, we are providing them with tools for a better future. The funds that we raise provide salaries for well trained teachers, and also goes towards initiatives such as school lunches, uniforms, and building funds. Making sure the classrooms have technology for curriculum is also a priority. In the past, we’ve aided in the delivery of 14 iPads to assist educational instruction at HIPAfrica in Kenya, and the delivery of 4 iPads, a Double robot and a telepresence robot to TriKa for educational instruction. We have also funded the school lunch program at TriKa since the Fall of 2015, and funded teacher salaries at HIPAfrica from 2018 through our final donation in April of 2019!

Looking to support HIPAfrica? We will provide a link to their incredible non-profit partner soon!

Clean Water

water filters

Open World has provided water filters to over 50 families in both the Kimilili community in Kenya and the Naryanapur community in Nepal. It is incredibly crucial that the families have access to clean water so they, and their students, stay healthy. Healthy children means more attendance at school! We provide them with Sawyer Point One Bucket Filters, that should provide them with clean water for up to 10 years.

Building Projects

In Kenya and Nepal

Open World helps the staff of the Tripur Kinder Academy to keep their buildings open and up to code. Through the years we have funded the construction of 3 classrooms, 2 washrooms and a computer lab at HIPAfrica, as well as 2 classrooms, 2 washrooms, and an office at TriKa.

Should more construction take place, we will share it here!

Travel

To the schools we support

2015 Tripur Kinder Academy (TriKA) in Nepal
Here we led our first trip abroad. We were able to see the school and meet Govinda, long time Nepali friend and educator, for the first time. We observed classrooms, conducted community interviews and laid the ground work for our lunch program.

2017 Visited HIP Academy in Kenya:
Open World’s next trip abroad was to visit HIP and meet HIP’s director, Livingstone. The team set out to survey the school, provide professional development for teachers, lessons for students, and conduct health evaluations for the students. Based on the needs of the school and the potential for HIP to be shut down, we were inspired to not only help lead a campaign to save HIP, but to look into providing sustainable clean water, nutrition, and educational programs to ensure that HIP’s students were receiving the best long-term education possible. After returning to the states, Ben was able to start a campaign with Microsoft and his students to help raise money for the school. You can read more about that here. Open World sent their final donation to HIP in April 2019.

2019 Revisited TriKA in Nepal
For our 2nd Nepal trip, we accomplished so much in 2 short weeks! We presented the Days for Girls program that provided sanitary pads and education to local women. We provided professional development to teachers, iPads for classrooms, and other educational materials. The team also conducted community interviews to learn about the roles of women, experienced the lunch program first hand, interviewed students, and got to teach. Our volunteer nurse conducted health evaluations on every single student. Read our reports and findings for this trip here.

2020 Sarita’s Followup Trip to Nepal
In January of 2020, Sarita Timalsina, consultant for women’s health and education initiatives in Nepal, did a followup visit to TriKA. She met with the parents of Tri Ka and organized the meeting with Sudha. She arranged for local community leaders and press to visit the school and they wrote an article about the success of Tri Ka and how it was thriving since its establishment in Narayanpur. At the meeting, she brainstormed with the community on next steps they’d like Tri Ka to take. Click here to read the english translation of the article, and click here to see the Nepali article.

Professional Development

For the schools we support

As we travel and meet the schools we have the honor of supporting, we continue to provide professional development for the teachers in these schools. Open World is continually working on providing resources and PD for teachers remotely as well. Growing this aspect of our organization is a goal of ours moving forward! Check out some of our work so far:

Technology PD 1
Technology PD 2
Gameification (Language Acquisition) PD
Phonics PD
Video clip of PD during 2017 HIPAfrica Trip- Natalie Chabot
Full PD meeting during 2017 HIPAfrica Trip