Continued Learning During Covid-19 (and beyond!)

When covid started to spread into Vietnam in February 2020, it only took a week for the Vietnamese government to shutdown our teacher's access to our orphanage STEM classrooms. Despite being a "tech focused education program", we quickly realized that we will ill-prepared to actually continue our classes via video by utilizing a distance learning concept. We could still connect with our students via video, but that didn't mean that we are actually prepared to deliver our curriculum via video.

With the help our generous donor community on GlobalGiving, as well as support from some of our corporate and foundation partners like HSBC, Pure Storage, UOB, and Team4Tech, we were able to buy the equipment necessary to feature good quality audio/video streams in each of our classrooms, as well as spend the time we needed to re-think our lesson delivery from in-person teacher instruction to remote instruction via video.

We're not yet finished....this is still a process.....but we anticipate that we'll be fully capable of running our program via distance learning by May 2021 across all 8 orphanages from our "teaching studio" in our Ho Chi MInh City headquarters.

For now, we are set-up and running in 2 orphanages, with 2 more scheduled to be complete by the end of February and 4 additional orphanages completed by the end of March.

Thank you to each of you for your generosity in supporting this project. Our students in Vietnam live in fairly isolated settings within the orphanage - so the restrictions of covid-19 left them even more isolated when Kidspire teachers and volunteers were unable to visit the orphanage on a regular basis. Your support helped us to keep connected with our students and ensure that they had the opportunity to continue their learning. Thank you!