Access to a classroom for disadvantaged pupils
Shannon May is an anthropologist, she Co-Founded Bridge International Academies, an innovative company launching a franchise of low-cost schools to serve impoverished families and informal settlements, across developing nations. While conducting research in rural China, Shannon saw close-up how primary education was failing already impoverished families. The experience prompted her to research how children could be taught the skills they need to thrive, harnessing data and technology to make a replicable and affordable model of education. The result was Bridge International Academies, the world’s largest private provider of nursery and primary education for families living on $2 a day or less. Bridge International, which charges $6 a month on average, launched its first school in Nairobi in 2009. It has now expanded across Africa, educating over 100,000 pupils, and plans to reach 10 million children across a dozen countries by 2025. If the status quo in education is kept, 2070…
THE SOCCKET: POWER IN A SOCCER BALL
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Woman Dies after Brazilian Butt Lift Surgery goes Wrong at Florida Clinic
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Handling Severe Fibromyalgia Pains
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Nancy Abu-Bonsrah Becomes First Black Female Neurosurgeon to be admitted at Johns Hopkins
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