Baobabooks Education Sàrl
Boababooks Education Sàrl is a Geneva, Switzerland-registered social impact company.   Created in partnership with an experienced team of educators and talent digital imagineers, the Baobabooks platform is a rich and guided environment where children and teens can write, illustrate and publish their own books.  At the same time, the platform simplifies teacher workload while enabling their creativity.  Available in six languages and with more planned in the near future, Baobabooks supports project-based learning and support classroom-based and remote teaching and learning of life-critical literacy skills.  The platform supports collaborations across counters, oceans and cultures to allow students to learn form each other and collaborate to create a book.  Baobabooks works to support the UN's sustainable development goal (SDG) 4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all".  In addition to scale more quickly and have a broader impact and engagement, the company also support SDG 17: "Strengthen the means of implementation the SGDs through partnerships".

Purpose

Baobabooks works to support the UN's sustainable development goal (SDG) 4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all".  In addition to scale more quickly and have a broader impact and engagement, the company also support SDG 17: "Strengthen the means of implementation the SGDs through partnerships".  Our purpose is to help children and teens gain life-critical literacy skills while building connections and understanding across countries, oceans and cultures.

Peter Nicholson

Co-Founder & CEO, Baobabooks Education Sàrl

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Summary

We are seeking to partner with other organizations who can extend our reach and impact globally with the goal of two partnerships in 2022 and three partnerships in 2023.

Activities & Initiatives

We are seeking to extend our reach and ability of children and teens to access our platform by partnering with other established organizations having the reach and credibility to help us achieve more.

Measures & Targets

We are in discussions with Amal Alliance (refugee children), UNICEF, Gustave Roussy Hospital (Paris) and may others. We have a goal of two partnerships in 2022 and three partnerships in 2023.

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Summary

Our business model is to provide our platform to schools for an annual fee based on the number of users. We provide our platform for free to schools from under-served geographies with a goal of 50 schools using our platform for free by end of 2022.

Activities & Initiatives

Provide our platform of free to schools from economically disadvantaged regions across the world.

Measures & Targets

We have a goal of 50 schools using our platform for free by the end of 2022 and 100 schools using our platform for free by the end of 2023. Thus far, we have provided our platform to 39 schools in Pakistan and we are working to do the same for 22 schools in Lebanon. We are engaging around the world with discussions to help extend our reach and impact into underserved communities.

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