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Shilpa Sayura Foundation - The Shilpa Sayura E-School, Lien Centre For Social Innovation
Shilpa Sayura Foundation - The Shilpa Sayura E-School, Lien Centre For Social Innovation
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In a country like Sri Lanka ravaged by decades of civil war, access to educational resources for an ethnically diverse population is scant at best, leading to disproportionate failure rates among high school students. The Shilpa Sayura team proposes to transform 600 existing tele-centres that facilitate e-learning and self-learning of the national curriculum to a new domain of digital knowledge that develops rural education in Sri Lanka.
Mira - Intermediary For Micro-Philanthropy, Lien Centre For Social Innovation
Mira - Intermediary For Micro-Philanthropy, Lien Centre For Social Innovation
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Lack of access, or financial means, continue to be the most significant reason for why up to 18 million children in Southeast Asia are not enrolled in schools. Mira’s goal is to make education universally accessible by creating a personalised scholarship fund online that is self-managed and data-driven, enabling a collaborative sponsorship model that links funders to a particular student, with real-time updates from both parties.