Save The Children’s Education Technology (EdTech) Response was a partnership with Save The Children Australia, Save The Children International and 2 social enterprises, Library For All and Inclusiv Education. I joined the team as a Technical Advisor at the onset of the Ukraine war to help establish the project, develop proposals, raise funds and guide project activities. This involved collaborating with partners and vendors to design scalable programs and solutions that aligned with the needs of displaced communities and met the Ukraine Ministry of Education & Science requirements while aligning with INEE Minimum Standards.
Care4Crisis is a professional development hub built for teachers, with teachers, for low resource and conflict settings. It offers offline micro-learning courses and integrates learning essential for crisis settings such as self-care, child safeguarding, inclusion and trauma-informed practice. The hub encourages peer-to-peer support & resource sharing. The MVP was built collaboratively with teachers from the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi, leveraging design features applicable to offline learning, rapid localization & cost-effective scale.
RTI International established a new unit to deliver Services & Solutions for Refugee Communities. I joined the education team to explore how organisations might leverage technology for refugees and out-of-school learners. By consulting with International NGOs, app designers and other for-purpose organisations my research explored processes that proved effective in leveraging tech to improve learning and well-being. I analysed programs delivered by War Child, Save The Children, Imagine Worldwide, Enuma and others and identified qualities beneficial to impact, finishing with recommendations for funders, INGOs & development teams to adopt best practices for low-resource settings.
Restorative Justice Tools is our solution to community reconciliation. Our toolkit offers an online guide for grassroots community facilitators to tailor and run restorative justice workshops using a problem-based learning framework. Learners analyze the root causes of problems within their community and then explore case studies of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) from around the world to investigate what methods were effective for change. Learners then collaborate to develop a contextualized model of a TRC suitable to their community based on their unique needs, history and challenges.
Climate Detectives: Open for Business is a project-based, collaborative learning experience, which leverages Augmented Reality. Through play, children learn about the wider impact of pandemics, climate change and natural disasters and decide how to rebuild sustainably. Players act as consultants for their towns, making tough choices along the way. Designed for ages 7 through to 15. The original version has been iterated further by peers at Mighty Curious Games & went to market in April 2023.
Community Conversations is a Red Cross suite of programs tailored for youth, children and professionals to explore why people seek asylum, understand the challenges, and hear from those who’ve experienced it themselves. Through engaging workshops and activities, participants explore human rights and build understanding and empathy in a safe and impartial space. We received a Team Service Award for our collective impact, reaching 8,000 people/annum. I facilitated sessions in workplaces and primary and secondary schools, trained our community educators and co-designed a pilot extension program to raise awareness about Climate Change & Humanitarian Action for youth.