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their gaps and learn at their own
As in Lebanese Alternative Learn- '
ing we are engaged in recycling we pace.
thought why not to recycle the 3. Art, culture and knowledge in
word Tabshoura for our digital Arabic. There are very few interest-
platform? And so we did. This was ing resources in Arabic. We want
(and still is) the name of our online to encourage state of the art extra-
platform: it can be Tabshoura/Kin- curricular resources in Arabic.
dergarten or Tabshoura/Middle Oil \
School or Tabshoura/Steam... Q: One of the bottlenecks to new
"As the projects is often the funding. How
To solve the bad / unreliable Inter- did you manage to find money to
net connection and the unstable Raspberry Pi put into practice your ideas?
electricity availability, we used a This is effectively the hard part.
Raspberry Pi and transformed it measures 12.5x 7.5x We mainly answer grant proposals
into a web server with all the con- and sometimes we have small do-
tents of our platforms on it. As the 2.5cm it looks like nations from friends of the NGO.
Raspberry Pi measures 12.5 x 7.5 The recognition of our program
x 2.5cm it looks like a little chalk a little chalk box by UN equal and Qatar Wise Ac-
box so we called it Tabshoura-In- celerator and its sustainability will
A-Box. so we called it hopefully help us get more grants.
As part of the 2018 selection of the
Q: What are the challenges you Tabshoura-In-A-Box. WISE accelerator in Qatar, we will

wish to address? get professional help building a
1. The right to free quality education. As a trainer of sustainable plan for our NGO.
trainers, I visited schools all around Lebanon and was
shocked by the disparity of the teaching methodologies Q: Why do you consider that access for women to technol-
between the private and the public system and between ogy is so important?
areas. Those who had the chance to be in a private school Technology is not a luxury. It became a must in today's
had access to quality learning. The others still cope with a world. Women cannot be an active part of the modern so-
traditional ways of teaching not adapted to the 21St cen- ciety if they are denied the right to access it through tech-
tury skills. They definitely did not have equal chances to nology. They cannot keep up with their children either.
pursue their learning.
2. Avoiding dropouts and keeping up with school. We Q. Finally, where would you like to see your organization
help refugees and students living in remote area keep up a couple of years from now?
with school and avoid dropout. This is why our content is Full curriculum completed and more time to work on
adapted to the school curriculum and is based on a dis- extra-curricular resources, teacher's empowerment and
covery methodology that encourage autonomous learn- women empowerment by providing on line education
ing and reasoning skills. Students use our content to fill and trainings.

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