We partnered with the EASEL Lab of Harvard Graduate School of Education for empirical validation and began preparations for an evidence based pilot of Colors of Kindness to be conducted in Greece with the Greek Ministry of Education in formal schools, as well as 6 local NGOs in urban and camp settings.
Learning Equality served as our Educational Tech Partner with their Kolibri Learning Platform powering
our digital workbooks. Using the feedback loops incorporated in the initial design, the second iteration was even more human centered and was expanded from its original 10-week format to 16-weeks to align with the academic semester. Produced in English and Greek, implementation kicked off January 2022 with 400 children across numerous contexts with both refugee and host community children.
At the same time, we were planning to launch two programs in Uganda: 1) A small scale pilot of Colors of Kindness in Nakivale, Uganda where we trained refugee teachers to conduct classes, and established a Master Training model for training in Uganda, which would cross fertilize with our second program; and, 2) Flying Colors, a combination of Colors of Kindness and Learning Equality’s Kolibri combined with academic materials implemented by Humanity For All Foundation Uganda (HAF-Uganda) taking a playful, project-based learning approach in an Internet-free learning environment for out of school learners. Uganda was less challenging in terms of content creation as English is the language of
instruction.