This Valentine's Day, as you celebrate love in all its forms, we also celebrate the passion our community's young innovators have for problem-solving. Love has the power to move mountains, and the love of problem-solving can build bridges across them. Join us for the Yiya Community Innovation Showcase on 28th March, 2025 and celebrate the ingenuity of our future innovators.
Yiya Solutions
非盈利组织
Kampala，Other 459 位关注者
Developing resilience and creative problem-solving in African youths through experiential STEM education
关于我们
OUR MISSION Yiya develops resilience and creative problem-solving in African youth through experiential technology and innovation education! Many young people in Africa are born into systemic poverty with few pathways out. At Yiya, we believe the key to helping youth chart their own paths lies in teaching them resilience, creativity, and flexible thinking. These three life skills are at the core of every Yiya engineering project that we bring to schools. Our Yiya students have created technologies such as bicycle-powered phone chargers, gravitypowered reading lights, and homemade hand sanitizers, all targeted to solve real problems in students’ local communities. Most importantly, our students leave with core skills they need to create opportunities where none have been given to them. HOW WE DO IT We design curriculum, run teacher workshops, and give in-school support through co-teaching. Our design centers around experiential education in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); our Yiya units are rooted in the local communities of our partner schools and are aligned to the Ugandan national syllabus. YIYA’S URGENT RESPONSE TO COVID In response to COVID-19, Yiya designed a remote offline school that youth can access using a keypad phone and a radio! We send educational content via robocalls and text messages. The combination of audio and text keeps the model inclusive of low literacy learners. We follow up with live lessons distributed remotely via a daily radio broadcast. During the radio lessons, the teacher asks questions and assigns homework. The learner submits answers to questions in real-time via unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) codes, a communication protocol used by GSM cell phones to communicate with the mobile network operator’s computers. Learners also submit homework and complete quizzes via USSD. Responses feed into an online database, tracking user participation.
- 网站
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https://yiyasolutions.org
Yiya Solutions的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非盈利组织
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Kampala，Other
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2016
- 领域
- STEM EDUCATION、Technology and innovation education、Poverty alleviation、Curriculum design、Teacher training、e-learning、Science, technology, engineering and mathematics和access to quality education
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主要
获取路线
PLOT No. 853 BUKOTO SSEMWOGERERE ZONE
UG，Other，Kampala，000
Yiya Solutions员工
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On this National Liberation Day, we appreciate the in kind support we get from Government leaders who participate in our #YiyaAirLearning radio talk shows and annual innovation showcase events. Thank you for joining us in building a better future for Ugandan youths! Happy National Liberation Day.
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In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and our ongoing commitment to equal justice and opportunities for all, Yiya is working toward these goals through the After Action Review (AAR) conducted earlier this year. The AAR served as a key tool for streamlining our efforts and planning for 2025, ensuring that we maximize our impact on out-of-school youth. By reflecting on past actions and identifying areas for improvement, Yiya is laying a strong foundation for achieving our mission and continuing to make an everlasting impact in last mile communities.
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December has arrived—the month of reflections and fresh starts! A time to cherish the past, embrace the present, and prepare for the future. Let’s make these days shine with kindness, gratitude, and a sprinkle of holiday magic. ??? Join us this coming Tuesday for our special virtual event and celebrate our impact as we close of this amazing year.
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You're invited to Yiya's Biggest Virtual Celebration of the Year! https://lnkd.in/dqyi7cbK
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