Digital Education for Guajira

In Colombia alone, there are more than 389,000 indigenous students. Our organization was born in 2015 in La Guajira (where our founder was born), the indigenous capital of Colombia, where only 29% of them will finish high school and only 5% of them will study higher education. Indigenous students are more likely to drop out of school due to language barriers and lack of support. Worse still, they are also more likely to lack access to higher education and job opportunities as a result of poor digital education and 21st-century skills, which are not fully developed in their community schools. 70% of them are young women. We believe that culture and heritage should never be a barrier to development. 

Despite the numerous international instruments that proclaim universal rights to education, indigenous peoples do not fully enjoy these rights, and the educational gap between indigenous peoples and the rest of the population remains critical throughout the world. A massive number of young indigenous people are being displaced and remain among the poorest in the cities. 

There are between 370 and 500 million indigenous peoples worldwide, in more than 90 countries. Although they represent only 5 percent of the world’s population, they represent about 15 percent of the extremely poor. Indigenous peoples should have the opportunity to contribute to the future of which they are already apart. Closing the digital divide means more opportunities for indigenous peoples to participate in a digital future while preserving their self-determination.

Thanks to Origin Learning Fund we have been able to provide training and technology to teachers and more than 4.000 indigenous students.  

With your support, we will provide access to inclusive digital education for over 50.000 indigenous students across the Global South by 2022.

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