Voices from the field

“Learning with that little box is very interesting. Watching it together with my friend is also fun. I enjoyed following these lessons.”

“In this camp, we don't have clean water, so we always have to drink untreated water. I only realised we could purify water using stones after this training with eduLamp. It's really useful — and I also enjoyed making the dyed cloth.”

“Before the eduLamp Box arrived, our village had no way to continue lessons after the school closed. Now my students can keep learning, even when the signal is gone for weeks.”

“I used to walk two hours to a friend's house to borrow textbooks. The box has everything in one place. I finished a whole science module last month.”

“My daughter shows me what she learned each evening. I never went to school myself, but now I understand how the body works because she explains the lessons to me.”

“The first time we plugged it in and saw the lessons appear on the projector, the children cheered. Many of them had never seen video learning before.”

“I am 67. I learned to read with the box, alongside my grandchildren. We sit together every night.”

“Our monastery school had no internet. Now we use the box for English lessons every Sunday. The monks help me with pronunciation.”

“I am a nurse in a remote clinic. The health modules helped me train the community health workers in our township. We saved time and paper.”

“Solar charges it in half a day. We bring it to three different villages every week — the children share it like a treasure.”

“I dropped out two years ago because of the fighting. The eduLamp lessons let me prepare for my matriculation exam quietly at home.”

“The Burmese-language content is what made the difference for the youngest students. They were not learning in English before.”

“We use the box to teach women in our village about agriculture and small business. They have started a vegetable cooperative.”

“I am a Pa-O teacher. Many of my students speak only our language at home. The picture-and-audio lessons let them follow along without losing the meaning.”

“Last month our generator broke. The box still worked on its own battery for two more days of class — that's when I really understood the design.”

“I'm a refugee on the Thai border. I miss school the most. The eduLamp lessons give me something to look forward to every morning.”

“I downloaded the science modules onto a USB at our partner site, then walked them back to our village. The box accepted them on the first try.”

“We are a small Akha community. The cultural-heritage modules — recorded with our own elders — meant our children could learn in two voices at once.”

“I teach maths in a one-room school. The interactive exercises mean every student moves at their own speed. I can finally help the slower ones.”

“When the floods came, we moved the school into the monastery. The box went with us. We didn't miss a single week of class.”

“My son is autistic. The visual lessons keep him calm and engaged in a way our textbooks never did.”

“I am a Naga teacher. Before eduLamp, we had to print everything by hand. Now I can prepare a week's worth of class in one afternoon.”

“Our boys school and girls school share one box between them — Mondays to Wednesdays here, Thursdays to Saturdays across the river. It's enough.”