aprendIA: Education in Emergencies (EiE)

Challenge: The prolonged impact of forced displacement on children demands urgent attention to education, yet less than 2% of humanitarian funding supports it. Consistent education is crucial for children’s survival, recovery and future stability. During times of crisis, teachers face limited resources, making it essential for them to have quick and easy access to the right classroom materials to support their students.

 

Solution: aprendIA’s EiE bot is designed for rapid deployment within four weeks, enhancing teacher capacity and wellbeing in the most urgent, crisis-affected areas. By adapting the IRC’s evidence-based Healing Classrooms program, it provides trauma recovery and psychosocial support content for young children. They can develop essential skills like basic literacy, numeracy, emotional regulation and cooperative play, preparing them for school. Delivered via WhatsApp, the Healing Classrooms content can be quickly contextualized for acute emergencies. This project explores enhanced GenAI capabilities such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), quick translations and a personal virtual assistant, in partnership with OpenAI.