Nacionalidad: United States of America

Nombre de la Organización: Jara

Región de Impacto: Northern America

Sobre el Negocio Social: Jara is an award-winning initiative closing the digital divide by building the distance learning solution for the 800 million children in low-electricity and low-internet communities globally. They build the Jara Unit, a crank and solar powered off-grid charging IoT enabled low-cost personal education device that can teach any e-learning content, in any language, anytime, anywhere in areas where the average tablet or smartphone does not work as an e-learning solution. They partner with local e-learning content providers to provide localizedcontent to our students and to create a collaborative EdTech environment. Pre-Pandemic, 262M children were out of school. In 2020, 1.63B children were out of school with ~800M not having the proper hardware tools at home to continue their education. With 15 countries looking to implement Jara within their communities in the near future, they look forward to reaching hundreds of millions of children in the next few years. Jara empowers people to rebuild their communities and continue their education, regardless of their circumstance. They believe every child deserves access to a continuous and quality education.

Sobre el Y&Y Fellow: Soraya is an award-winning international entrepreneur, leading a multi-national team as Founder & CEO of Jara to achieve Jara's goals of empowering children in under-resourced communities to receive a quality education anytime, anywhere. An electrical engineer by training, Soraya combined her robotics experience with her global education at the United Nations International School to bring a multifaceted approach to the start-up world that is based on improving the livelihoods of those in need through tangible products. Soraya is the founder of Jara, and the business was created after gaining experience in designing and implementing systems and programs through writing curriculum for K-12 robotics, directing the largest technology-education camp of 500 campers and 60 staff members at Stanford, creating a fundraiser for disaster relief called Jamming-for-Relief, and designing and implementing effective systems as Supervisor for an electrical engineering innovation laboratory. Soraya also was the business management consultant for a 3-person government technology commercialization organization spinning out 72 portfolio companies. She has been featured by the United Nations, Forbes, Samsung, Nasdaq and has received support from many world-leading companies. She is a Cisco Global Problem Solver, Gratitude Network Fellow, USC Rossier Edventures Fellow, and Y&Y Fellow.