A message I received last December during a text exchange with our Programs Manager in Ghana: “I think it would be best if we stopped the program.” In this specific text message, she was recommending that we stop a program called SOLE (Self-Organized Learning Environments), where teachers pose questions to students, who then use tablets …
When our in-country teams call, I’m ready to listen. Read More »
My WASH team and I believe that a school is the heart of the community. It’s a place where children spend half of their day, and investment in a healthy school is an investment in healthy children. 20 years ago, I was a primary school student in the village of Na Sangveuy, Laos. I loved …
How using Salesforce has led to unprecedented growth in international education. Pencils of Promise is a data-driven organization. Of course, with meticulous data collection comes great analysis — since PoP works in three continents, technology has become an integral part in allowing us to collect and utilize the knowledge we’ve gained from our data …
When reflecting upon the number 300, we can’t help but think about the movie with that same name. The film 300 came out in 2006, the same year our Founder, Adam Braun, graduated college. But what does a movie glorifying the Spartan empire of ancient Greece have to do with Pencils of Promise? Well, we …
PoP’s Guatemala Projects Manager, Sam Tabory, shares with us the importance of engaging with local governments. Read more below…
Learn all about our newest Ghana Country Director, Freeman Gobah below…
