Location: Central America and the Caribbean, Honduras | Priorities: Education, Indigenous Peoples
With the support of Global Affairs Canada, we are working in partnership with Garifuna and Indigenous communities to implement a 3.5-year Intercultural Bilingual Education project with the aim of reducing racial and gender disparities and promoting mother-tongue learning for thousands of students lagging behind global learning standards. Through distance teacher-training, technology for educational resources, and community development of mother-tongue language materials, both teachers and students will be set up for success in marginalized areas along Honduras’ Caribbean coast.
Local Challenges• Lack of educational resources and limited access to the internet
• Students lag behind global learning standards
• Curriculum is not contextualized to the communities
• Limited teacher development opportunities
• Lack of teachers with Intercultural Bilingual Education training
• Install solar technology to power off-line servers
• Provide offline technology and digital libraries of educational content
• Develop culturally and linguistically relevant educational materials
• Provide in-person capacity-building and digital training modules for teachers
• Co-create resources for sexual and reproductive health education
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