Our project involves our own 2 innovative Maggie schools and 4 educational programs : skype interactions with students globally, teacher training, coding classes and learning on demand via video lessons.
Kakuma refugee camp houses 196,000 refugees who fled from war and hunger in in neighboring countries like Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia,… The camp has 24 schools and 645 teachers of whom 67% were not trained at all.
To keep our program and school running, we need funds. Donations will go straight to the refugees. With your support, we will be able to educate more children, fight polarisation and employ refugees,…
In 2015 Koen Timmers, a teacher from Belgium, started to teach refugees via Skype. He shipped his own laptop and an internet connection to the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
Watch Koen Timmers’s TEDx and learn how the model of Project Kakuma led to several global projects with more than 2.7m participating students and teachers across the world.
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Solar light project
/in News /by Koen TimmersWe created 150 solar lights so students are able to bring change to their homes and communities. Students learned to work with soldering, batteries, solars and led lights and made their own solution for the lack of electricity at home. At the same time Belgian students made the same lights and had a virtual interaction […]