Author: Antonia Mudd

At Transparent Language, we treat language learning as more than just a casual pursuit. For our customers, including some of the U.S. government’s most stringent language schools, success is not optional. Their students must reach a specified level of proficiency in a set amount of time. We make their challenge our mission: to train faster with more reliable results.

Fun programs with serious results
We develop innovative technology and methods to enable faster and more reliable language learning outcomes for professionals in organizations with critical language requirements, for students and teachers in academic environments, and for anyone else intent on becoming more proficient in another language. We know great learning technology is engaging and satisfying, with quality content and game dynamics that maintain every learner’s attention. Our systems leverage the element of fun to achieve serious results – where students and instructors see and feel real progress. We also know the tools provided to teachers matter as much as those provided to students. We provide instructors with the comprehensive reporting features needed to improve language program management.

We care about every language
We don’t just offer our own courses — our technology is designed to strengthen and leverage every course and curriculum. We care about every language, not just those where there is money to be made. We put our money into transformative technology and resources, instead of advertising, and concentrate on providing the most enticing, fun, and flexible language products possible.

Available to everyone
Transparent Language programs are available to all U.S. Government personnel, language schools, and language programs via a program of the Department of Defense’s language portal, Joint Language University. Our products are also available in more than 12,000 libraries, corporate organizations, and educational institutions worldwide. We also make the same effective, affordable system available to individuals who care about their own personal language learning too.

Our English language volunteer in Haiti, Rose Yunker, commented, “Transparent Language’s program for teaching English to French-speaking students was an invaluable aid to my Haitian students’ progress. It provided the backbone to my own classroom activities and kept my class productively engaged while I worked with individual students or small groups.” Hats off to Transparent Language for this generous gift!

Tek4Kids continues to recover from the crippling effects of Hurricane Matthew last October. Part of this effort involves replacing Tek4Kids laptops that were damaged in the storm. Many thanks to Transparent Language, who is providing replacement software for these laptops free of charge!

Click here to visit website: http://www.transparent.com

The mission of the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF) is to improve the health and well-being of women, children, families and communities living in the greater Jeremie region through healthcare, education and community development.

The history of the Haitian Health Foundation began in 1982 with a trip to Port-au-Prince by Dr. Jeremiah J. Lowney, a Connecticut orthodontist who traveled to Haiti to provide free dental care.

In 1985, after working for three years in Port-au-Prince and other areas of Haiti with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity, Mother Teresa requested that Dr. Lowney move his small outreach to the rural city of Jeremie. This southwestern area of Haiti suffers a dearth of health care.

HHF has established a stable and responsive preventive and curative health care system and development program in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. In addition to the city of Jeremie, HHF provides support to over 100 rural mountain villages in the Grand’Anse.

HHF is proud of an overhead of less than 9 cents for every dollar donated ~ over 91% of funds collected go directly to programs and services. These efforts have evolved over the last 30 years to create an organization that provides the following services:  a primary health care outpatient clinic serving over 100,000 patients per year, an outstanding community health promotion and outreach program to mountain and remote villages, the construction of houses and latrines for many poor families and the elderly, goat distribution, feeding facilities, funding for primary and secondary education, and many other programs. HHF brings healthcare services, education, and sustainable development to a population of over 225,000 people in over 100 rural mountain villages.  There is still so much to do, but HHF continues to change lives ~ one person at a time.

The Haitian Health Foundation and Tek4Kids share community knowledge and update each other on the status of the political environment, education and technology. They work together to provide a better outcome for the students and teachers that they serve.

Click here to visit website: http://www.haitianhealthfoundation.org

Haiti One on One provides an opportunity to experience the joy of giving to those whose needs are great. Interested persons donate $700 and Haiti One on One will match the amount and construct a small home for $1,400. Donors are able to help a family secure a home and often times able to provide food, clothes and furniture. It’s a great way to feel good about oneself. Haiti One on One projects have also included building a waterline to a village of 7,000 people, providing fresh drinking water.

Tek4Kids’ initial connection with Haiti One on One was through Joe Desrochers, aTek4Kids board member. Haiti One on One and Tek4Kids regularly collaborate on construction projects with our partnered schools. Some of these projects have included installing drinking fountains and restrooms in schools. On a regular basis, we share information on how to improve and support the education needs of students and the community of Jeremie.

Contact: joseph.e.desrochers@gmail.com

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Pro-Haiti is a non-profit organization established in 1993, in partnership with Haiti. Many of the founders are from tech companies such as IBM and HP. The organization supports ideological and material development projects in Haiti, which are an effective aid for self-help to the population especially in rural areas for social and economic issues. Projects must be coordinated with a Haitian company.

Target group: Young people

Focus of funding: Vocational training in mechanics, electrical engineering, automotive engineering, set up of workshops for cooperatives for graduates.

Regions: Jeremie (Grand ‘Anse region), Leogane (Port au Prince region.)

Pro-Haiti and Tek4Kids are connected through mutual sharing of information centered around technology needs of students in Jeremie, Haiti and how to create a more robust learning environment for students.

Click here to visit their website: http://www.pro-haiti.de

All images in this post are owned by Pro-Haiti.

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(SES) is the Foundation of German Industry for International Cooperation (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit). It is a non-profit organization.

SES offers interested retirees the opportunity to pass on their skills and knowledge to others, both within Germany and abroad. They work in a voluntary capacity as Senior Experts, helping to train both specialist workers and management staff. They help others to help themselves – an important contribution towards safeguarding a small slice of the future. It is a system that benefits all parties.

Senior Experts generally work in small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as with providers of vocational training and health care services, but it is also employed by such organizations and institutions as the German Agency for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ). The duration of these honorary assignments ranges usually from three to six weeks; the maximum duration is six months. A Senior Expert can be requested for follow-up assignments to ensure the sustainability of his or her work.

At the beginning of 2017, more than 12,000 highly motivated professionals from different segments of trade and industry were registered at SES.

The motto of SES is: Future needs experience!

SES and Tek4Kids have collaborated on building projects at St. Therese Montessori School in Jeremie, Haiti. The most recent project included building a computer room for students and teachers.

Click here to visit website: http://lang.ses-bonn.de/en/clients/how-and-where-do-we-help.html

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