Related Organizations and Links
GRASSUP NOW (Grassroots Underpinnings: Poverty, Nutrition, ODL/ICTs, Women)
GRASSUP NOW is a five-member consortium in Western Kenya, whose nonprofit partners are using ICTs to develop educational programs focused on local empowerment, nutrition and health, improved livelihoods, environmental education, open learning, and sustainable development. This initiative is supported by The Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org).
The project seeks to instill a self-help/social enterprise approach that gives people a sense of achievement and validation. This is done by providing local people with the tools and information they need to develop a sense of what is the best way to build and organize their local economies. Towards this end, this initiative creates and distributes educational content that builds capacity for underserved communities in the areas of:
- Agriculture, nutrition, and health care
- Income-generation through business education and e-commerce
- Environmental education
- Grassroots empowerment through literacy using ICTs to augment existing teaching and communication tools
ICTs-linked initiatives can be drivers of social transformation, ensuring equal participation in civil society for minority groups, and basic welfare and safety-net services, such as health care education, healthy nutritious food, and safe drinking water. This process of collaboration is at its root about learning from the collective wisdom that defines us as a living and evolving human global community. GRASSUP (NOW) is a successful demonstration of how committed people can overcome the challenges of collaboration.
Visit the oneVillage Foundation for more information on GRASSUP NOW
