How illuminAid’s Three-part Intervention Makes a Difference
By focusing on the three key aspects of development - education, resources, and empowerment, IlluminAid is driving significant changes in impoverished communities worldwide.
What’s in the illuminAid kit?
Discover how illuminAid is revolutionizing education in the world's most impoverished regions with our innovative video technology kits, powering positive social evolution through the barriers of electricity, literacy, geography, and more.
Q&A: Pathfinder’s use of ICT4D in Mozambique
Empowering communities through locally-created videos, illuminAid's Video Education Workshop in Mozambique fostered change by supporting Pathfinder International's efforts to address child marriage and gender-based violence. Jose Mpingo, a dedicated participant, highlights the powerful impact of these videos in changing beliefs and attitudes in Cabo Delgado province.
Child Poverty Exacerbated by COVID-19 in Developing Nations
Approximately 700 million children in developing nations are estimated to be living in monetary-poor households this year, up from 582 million in 2019, prior to the global pandemic.
Nigeria’s Success as the Last Country in Africa Declared “Wild Polio Free”
Public Health Professional Rohey Njie explains what it is really like to eradicate polio in Northern Nigeria
COVID-19 in Kenya: Getting Tested
Guest Writer Javance Onyango writes about what getting tested for COVID-19 is like in Kenya.
Where They Are Today: Rohey Uses Video to Help Prevent Polio
Rohey Njie, Senior Program Officer for the Directorate of Health Promotion & Education with the Ministry of Health in Gambia, participated in a Video Education Workshop with OMPT three years ago and now uses her video creation skills in community health.
A Brief Look at Ethiopia: Part 2
Ethiopia is one of the world's least developed countries and has encountered food insecurity for its population routinely. The government and numerous NGOs have attempted to eradicate hunger through government programs and land cultivation. In July 2019, OMPT is teaming up with Arba Minch University in southern Ethiopia to teach Ph.D. students how to create videos aimed at improving mother and infant nutrition.
Sustainable Development Goals: How illuminAid Is Helping Advance the United Nations’ Goals to Transform Our World
OMPT helps to progress the UN Sustainable Development Goal 17, which lays out targets for technology and capacity building that utilize partners in the international community to provide access to technology and innovation in order to enhance sustainability and implement developmental practices.
illuminAid partners with CARE in Malawi
Our second stop in our September trip will be in Malawi, this time working with CARE. Our workshop in Malawi will be our first time both working in Malawi and with CARE. Unlike most of the countries we travel to, Malawi’s official language is English, allowing our English-speaking staff to more directly engage the workshop’s participants.