One School At A Time
- Location : Karnataka, India
- Community Served: Children
- Focus: Education
Organization background
The mission of One School At A Time (OSAAT), a volunteer-run organization,
is to rebuild the infrastructure of dilapidated public schools in rural India.
The motivation for rebuilding is to increase student attendance by providing
a more conducive and safe environment for learning.
In partnership with other nonprofits, OSAAT rebuilds both
physical infrastruture -- classrooms,
toilets, kitchens and clean drinking water facilities, and more
recently, digital
infrastructure -- setting up and supporting an e-learning environment
and tools.
Project background
The digital divide between urban and rural communities in India is
quite stark. Access to digital infrastructure in rural areas is
minimal and, as such, digital learning technologies are
inaccessible to the vast majority of school-going children.
The OSAAT Digital Infrastructure School Initiative (ODiSI) seeks
to address this issue by designing, implementing and executing a
digital learning platform that will bring educational content to
children attending schools in rural communities.
GKF contributions to OSAAT
- 2021: Funding to implement ODiSI in schools in Karnataka