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Mission Statement
Charte.ge is a Georgia-based nonprofit funding platform on a mission to help disadvantaged high school students realize their full potential by giving them Internet access, laptops, free access to educational platforms and constant online mentorship. Our aim is to provide individual benefits to our beneficiaries like new sources of information, artistic and political expression, enhanced academic and professional opportunities, social capital, digital skills, productivity, efficiency, as well as social benefits to entire communities like increased profits and efficiency and social cohesion. We believe that Internet access is a human right. It is also one of the most cost-efficient ways of allowing individuals and entire countries in the developing world to take advantage of the existing global knowledge and compete effectively.
About This Cause
Charte.ge is a Georgia-based nonprofit platform that lets anyone sponsor monthly Internet fees and devices for underprivileged high school students living in refugee camps, rural areas and poor families. We started our project in 2017 in IDP/Refugee settlements and rural areas of Georgia. With monthly recurring donations from our 2000+ online donors and additional support from corporate donors like Ernst & Young, Bank of Georgia, BDO, etc., we have given internet access to more than 1000 students. Our platform is simple and transparent - it takes 3 minutes to register for automatic monthly donations; every student, donor, activity and cost is documented on the website; donors receive transparency reports and they choose what percentage of their donation goes directly to the students (versus administrative costs). Charte is a multistakeholder project that brings together schools and school districts (who help us identify the students), corporate donors, EdTech companies (who supply their products to our beneficiaries for free), Internet Service Providers (who cover the installation costs) and individual online donors - 80% of which are Millennial. We select our beneficiaries with caution. They have to be deemed socially vulnerable by Social Services and not be able to afford a laptop or an Internet connection. We identify them through schools, visit, interview, photograph and document each student. We also continuously mentor, interview and survey our beneficiaries and assess their progress. While more than half have taken up an online course, 83% report that they have less difficulty in understanding school subjects. Our founders also created an international analogue, www.GiveInternet.org, and incorporated a US-based nonprofit to raise funds internationally and bring connectivity to high school students in need from all over the world.