Kakuma Project
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In 2000 Koen graduated and won an award with a tool which allowed people to identify trees. It brought him on a field trip to South Africa where he met people living in extreme poverty. The trip would stay in his mind for 15 years. In 2015 he met a refugee from Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya) who asked him to help to raise the bar of education in the refugee camp.
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Participants
100,000
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Countries
95
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Since
2015
I started to teach refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) through Skype in 2015. I shipped my own laptop and taught Science and Math. Many other teachers joined the initiative and started to teach the refugees through the same infrastructure. We started having virtual interactions between the refugees and teachers with their students from across the world.
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The project is part of the Belgian NGO called Innovation Lab Schools.
Today magic is happening in our 2 Kakuma schools: we are teaching sign language, coding, design, there's an ICT-club, we train teachers, there's a climate hub and teaching are using multimedia to enrich their classes. Fun fact: students watching discus throw on YouTube and replicate during class physical education.
The project inspired Koen to launch other schools in Tanzania with Jane Goodall. Read more.
