Globally, 10% of children at primary level (age 6-11) are out-of-school. The mission of elimu.ai is to build innovative learning software that empowers out-of-school children to teach themselves basic reading📖, writing✍🏽 and math🔢.

The product built by elimu.ai is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and we want to maximize real-world impact by also keeping the cost of distribution as low as possible.

Therefore, for the Onchain Summer Buildathon, we built an onchain education sponsorship program. The idea here is to deliver education to out-of-school children by linking together sponsors with distributors. It is often the case that a child is out of school because it costs money to enroll a child to school and to purchase school supplies, but we think that having the opportunity to learn foundational literacy and numeracy skills should be free of cost.

People who want to support our cause can go to the website we built at https://sponsors.elimu.ai and sponsor the education of one individual child. Once a sponsor sends money, it gets stored temporarily in a smart contract until a distributor picks up the task of installing the learning software on an Android tablet and distributing it to an out-of-school child. All the while receiving transparent status updates on each step of the distribution process.

We also achieve community engagement by letting community members approve successful distributions using on-chain attestations with the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS). This allows for non-technical community members to engage more with the distribution of the software.

The sponsor's feeling of an actual real-world impact will truly begin when an out-of-school child receives the learning device and starts her learning journey. The sponsor will then (after data collection) be able to follow the child's learning progress and get a true sense of the positive difference the sponshorship made on the child's life.