Change for Children Association

Published purpose

The project aims to improve the quality of education and reduce gender and racial disparities for Indigenous and Afro-descendent primary and secondary school students in the Caribbean Coast Region of Honduras. The Project will develop Intercultural Bilingual Education and will deploy technology-based learning labs consisting of laptops and a Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education and Learning (RACHEL) digital library and offers community workshops in 10 central nucleus schools. Project activities includes: 1) increased access to high-quality education materials in digital libraries; 2) teacher training and professionalization programs offered through distance education modalities; and 3) creation of linguistically and culturally relevant, and gender-sensitive educational resources. The project targets to directly reach 400 primary and secondary level teachers and 8000 students, and indirectly 25,000 inhabitants of remote Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Honduras.