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Pencils of Promise. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://pencilsofpromise.org/
*All the photos and data is from their website.

Visit the website to find more about this great organization!

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Water filter

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PoP Teacher

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School building picture from PoP website

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Digital resources

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Handwashing station

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Toothbrusing station part of WASH initiatives

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Water filters

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PoP acquires funding from multiple sources:

PoP encourages people to create campainges to raise money

Promote people to create their fundraising and donate

PoP Leadership council for young professionals to support PoPs mission through networking and fundraising

PoP Clubs in schools to promote the vision among children and youth

Passport - A monthly giving opportunity where member receive progress updates stories, souvenirs from PoP, photos and videos from children and communities

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PoP collaborates with local governments to identify the communities with the greatest and deepest educational needs. This ensures that the program is sustainable and that the work strengthens over time.

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PoP consideres themselves a truly global organization because they work with them from the onset of the projects.

This collaborative approach is their key for the long-term success of their programs and schools.

Communities are engaged from the beginning through partnerships and they commit to contribute to the school building process. In addition, they lead meetings once per year to encourage parent engagement in children's education

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PoP states that quality environment is critical to increase the student and engagement.

1. Scout communities

2. Establish partnerships  with the communities

3. Build the schools with the community 20% support

4. Provide ongoing support in which a relationship with the community is maintained to ensure the project sustainability.

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Main goal of WASH is to provide water filters, clean water, private bathrooms, and foster the growth of good hygiene. This pillar of PoP is based on providing the safe and clean infrastructure and knowledge of hygiene to keep healthy students in school. Some of the WASH initiatives are:

WASH workshops

WASH clubs

Maintenance training of the provided infrastructure

Support through observations to evaluate the infrastructure, activities, and the improvement of student behaviors.

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Support to teachers provided by PoP includes:

Digital learning resources such as e-readers

Workshops

Coaching

Evaluate and iterate - Measurement of outcomes to make decisions

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

SEED (Skills Enabling Emotional Development)

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The following data provided by PoP shows tat they have built 497 up to this date in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Laos, and Ghana. More than 97,000 students have been impacted by their programs in these four countries. 119 schools have WASH meaning that over 16,000 students have benefited. Lastly, 145 schools have received teacher support resulting in almost 18,000 students benefiting from this approach (RECORD VOICE)

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PoP has a team of experts constantly measuring their success. They measure Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in reading for accountability as they continue growing. KPI shows that students in PoP schools outperform their peers in reading passages (grades 3 and 4) and reading comprehension (grades 5 and 6) around a 10% in pre and post tests.

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The following are the pillars PoP uses to make their vision a reality.

Teacher support

WASH - Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

School Builds

Community engagement

Government Collaboration

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Why education? Because of 250 million children

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Why education? Because of 250 million children

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Their web page states their work is based on the 250 million children that can't read because they lack basic reading, writing, and math skills. This represents  a 75% of children in deprived regions of poor countries.

Education is the key to break the poverty cycle, improves health, and breaks down gender gap.

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"We're a global community that believes everyone deserves access to quality education. We're shaping the landscape of education guided by our 100% promise."

Their vision is that their model focused in literacy will be available for governments to adapt and implement beyond PoP schools.

Their model is to work directly with government and communities to build schools and offer teacher support in order to create sustainable educational gains so that they can incorporate the programs systemically in the nation.

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Who they are? How did it all started? How do I know them?

For a brief answer to these questions, I invite you to listen here!