Hello Hub: the photovoltaic kiosk for children who do not have schools

    Hello Hub: the photovoltaic kiosk for children who do not have schools

    Nigeria. Seven months after the terrorists kidnap 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, many local students are still afraid of going to school. In other parts of the country, children don't go because there are no schools. Many cities and towns cannot afford to pay teachers. Across the nation, more than 10,5 million children are out of school, more than anywhere else in the world. But a Nigerian city has long since started a prototype for a new type of education that doesn't involve a school or teachers. Thanks to the energy of the sun



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    Nigeria. Seven months after the kidnapping of 300 female students in Nigeria by terrorists, many local students are still afraid to go to school. In other parts of the country, children don't go because there are no schools. Many cities and towns cannot afford to pay teachers. Nationwide, as well 10,5 million children they do not go to school, more than anywhere else in the world. But a Nigerian city has long since started a prototype for a new type of education that doesn't involve a school or teachers. Thanks to'energy of the sun.

    Is called Hello Hub and it is a computer kiosk connected to the Internet thanks to the electricity produced by a photovoltaic panel and offers hundreds of educational games. It is rugged enough to withstand dust storms, rain, and thousands of users. Built and owned by the community, the system is available to anyone, not just children but adults as well, and can be used at any time.

    "We have decided that a new paradigm for education is essential, the one that can really reach all children in difficulty" has explained Katrin McMillan, founder and CEO of Project for All, the organization that created Hello Hub.

    The project was inspired in part by Sugata Mitra, the 2013 winner of the TED Award according to which schools as we know them are obsolete. Mitra has shown with various experiments that the self-learning computer works made available to children living in slums or in remote locations, have allowed them to learn subjects such as English and also the basics of biotechnology on their own.

    Instead of looking donations, the project involved the entire community, asking them to help find the most suitable areas to install Hello Hubs. And he also got the visitors involved, asking them to help build the computer kiosk from scratch.



    “We built the first Hello Hub over a year ago, in an extremely poor part of Nigeria, amidst the violence of Boko Haram. So we have more or less chosen the most difficult place to start. And Hello Hub is not only still standing, it has been maintained and repaired and even improved. "

    The organization plans to bring more kiosks around the world to areas where kids and children do not have access to schools, including refugee camps, and already plans to build them in Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, India, Peru and Haiti.


    Il project to build a Hello Hub is open source, and all the technology is readily available, low-cost, and durable.


    Francesca Mancuso

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