COVID-19 Response in Kenya

With the onset of COVID-19, For the Good pivoted to research offline possibilities to deliver learning, limited to using resources already within communities due to curfews and travel restrictions. After weeks of challenges, they rolled out a remote education program to 100 students in May. In June, they were able to scale the program to an additional 200 students.

Using Kolibri, an offline app that makes education available in low-resource locations such as refugee camps, and tablets populated with content from eLimu, one of Kenya’s digital educational content providers, students are now able to study their standard curriculum and also learn from creative new content from the Khan Academy and other online providers. Tablets are also populated with COVID-19 information for families. To meet the tablets’ charging needs, For the Good is providing direct support to rural clinics and the handful of shopkeepers with access to electricity to serve as charging stations, providing vitally needed income to local communities during COVID-19. In June they scaled the program to 200 additional Maasai students and continued to reach out to schools in neighboring districts to expand the program to any interested teachers. In August, as word about the program spread, their team traveled to deliver content and teach the program to teachers in a neighboring district in Kenya’s Mara region.