A.P.E.F.I Institute

APEFI is an institute dedicated to vulnerable people. Free ICT-based education and quality learning.

 The Accessible Environmental Institute for Future Peace and Prosperity (APEFI).

 Conventional education that explains all the topics that most students see throughout their lives. Also, education topics centralized to the communities, where they are taught about topics that can be applied in their territories. It is about putting in value the knowledge they acquired with us and explaining how they can apply it.

 We devised a classroom that is based on technologies to provide education. There will be Tablets with specialized programs to study. The classroom is designed to have the best educational environment. It will have development spaces, learning areas and it will be working thanks to renewable energy. It is a sustainable area a new type of classroom that adapts to the needs. In addition, each impacted community will have a physical point where you can download updated material, you can charge your devices and you can have contact with a support team that will inform you of any news.

 We provide a study plan so that anyone, without exceptions, can study according to their level of learning. One of the plans is that they can certify their education and access a higher level with other entities.

The goal is to educate people who are far from the benefits of education.

 It is a problem that is present not only in Colombia but throughout the world. In Colombia 1.2 million children and adolescents currently do not study, in the world 63 million. These numbers are related to data such as: Rurality rates in Colombia are 22.9%, 42.3% of the country is at some level of poverty, but the extreme poverty rate is 7.47 million people .

 Education is always subject to indices of human quality and poverty. People who do not have access to food, shelter and clean water do not see access to learning in their concerns. And the institutions don't bother to give people this opportunity either, since they deal with other problems that affect the quality of life first.

However, many of these problems can be resolved with education. Supporting Goal 4 can contribute to the causes of the other goals focused on quality of life (Goals 1; 2; 3; 5; 6; 11; 17). The lack of education leads to a deterioration in the quality of life, that people cannot get out of poverty has many explanations, and one of those is that they do not have the necessary education. That is the problem we seek to solve.

Our solution aims to educate people far from society, on classic educational topics and useful topics in their lives.

Our public is all those boys, girls, adolescents, adults and older adults who do not have or have not been able to continue with their studies and learning.

In detail we will focus on the communities of people who, due to different factors, have a very low educational level.

The rural communities of the country are currently neglected due to the lack of educational infrastructure, little access to quality materials and useful technologies. But there are many populations that are underserved.

Immigrant peoples in the country, since around 1.2 million people are in a migratory situation. These people are scattered throughout urban areas or populated centers, but they are grouped in small communities that invade certain unoccupied sites. But they are vulnerable communities because they do not have access to many of the things that give them an adequate quality of life.

Other populations would be dispersed rural black and indigenous communities, vulnerable communities that are in a position to beg.

The solution seeks that they have that place where they can educate themselves with all the necessary tools, where they feel safe and with a chance at life, that they feel that they have a place that can serve as a home and that is also a space with which to identify. and be a community space.

We have made a study of the situation of different communities that meet the characteristics that we have proposed, we analyze their accessibility, their conditions and the things to be resolved to implement the solution in them.

We have also researched educational programs that are similar to our solution, to use several of your ideas to strengthen our solution. We are mainly guided by the "Ghana Talking Book Program" project to strengthen our projects on the subject of accessibility and educational quality that impacts the lives of our users.

We analyze one of the environmental education projects in our region. INCIVA is a departmental government institute of Colombia that implements environmental education in the majority of young people in the state-department of Valle del Cauca, we use several of its educational methods in schools and urban and rural communities to develop our own model of learning and implementation of our solution. We have been involved with different people who work at INCIVA to guide us with them in the development of our learning model.

Different experts and people close to the communities have been involved with the project, currently people specialized in teaching and providing education have helped us with the learning models and implementation of the proposals, they are a whole group that supports learning and what is necessary to solution development.

We are in the prototype stage because we have everything developed to implement the solution. We have created the different tools to start implementing our project.

We have everything ready in the development of our prototypes, we have developed our learning plan, the implementation of our physical points, the tablet network, access to communities, etc.

The learning plan is organized, we have implemented its structure, levels, purposes and interactions with users.

We have created everything from small concepts to large design prototypes for our solution. We have worked hard to start the pilot phase of the project. We have investigated and found how we can get all the necessary materials, without so many costs and of good quality, since it is what we are looking for to provide a quality and useful service.

We are currently working on mobile applications that will be installed on mobile devices. We have created a prototype user interface to help guide this entire topic. Building the apps is one of the most important steps, but we have solutions for that too.

We believe we are at this stage because we haven't implemented the solution yet, but we are ready to do so.

• A recycled tablet. These tablets come with the necessary tools from Hadwared and Software. Well, they include a series of applications created and modulated by us that are based on the tools of the device (cameras, speakers, microphones.)

• The device also comes with a toolkit to facilitate learning processes: a portable solar charger, portable lamp, device sleeve, stylus, and certificate of use. The devices connect with each other via Bluetooth.

• The classroom will be adapted with different technologies. From tables created based on sustainable technologies using biodegradable materials such as plastic wood or cardboard, to devices that provide a better learning opportunity, such as screens, interactive boards, a virtual library resource, a central computer or the interaction with a virtual assistant that provides support remotely. In addition to a physical point, which brings a memory where all the electronic learning material is located. It is built with sustainable materials and does not take up much space. It has ports for charging devices, an active radio, a phone to communicate with a support team. To update the study materials, this will be done physically with a device connected to the internet or automatically every month.

• Everything will be supported by electrical energy, obtained by solar panels, wind turbines, energy based on movement or some other method that is related to the community, which we will provide, but users will be able to adapt more material for the energy development of the installation.

Currently we are not serving any person, as we are in the prototype stage, however, we have implemented our solution in certain people to test, as a kind of experimental tester, with two people we saw if the ideas are on the right track, or if something had to be changed.

Focusing on the communities, within a year we hope to impact 500 people with our service. These 500 people are equivalent to the population of different communities that we have observed and plan to impact.

Our goal is to impact these people, with our service throughout the year 2022. As a purpose of our solution we plan not only to impact communities but also to impact an entire educational area, reaching teachers, directors and administrators of different educational institutes.

We seek to implement the ideas of SDG 4 as the main basis and objectives 8 and 10 as secondary basis, but we know that indirectly in the country we can develop other objectives that focus on the quality of human life, (SDG 3; 5; 9; 16 ; 17).

 We seek that the populations impacted by us use all the knowledge they acquire in their own community, that they are the ones who solve problems inside and outside their environment, that they engineer their own ideas and put them into practice, that they implement solutions that benefit their quality. of life.

 We want people to have a better quality of life through good education, because we not only want them to have a space and quality and how, where they feel safe, but we want them to see dating as an opportunity for change where they can access to tools that will improve your own life.

 We will support them to get jobs, a higher education, have a better economy and that tomorrow they will be the ones who contribute to APEFI.

 One of our ideas is for them to come up with products that they can sell together with us to generate capital that they can implement in themselves, and that also help sustain the project.

 People will fight to re-integrate into participatory life and to seek true change for future prosperity within society.

1) Sustainable Development Agenda: This is a report on how we are meeting the goals. With this we seek that the services are directed correctly and that they are complying with a basic form as proposed.

 2) Study: This is a monthly study of how communities are progressing with the use of our solution, how they feel and analyzing their feedback to improve. In this study we will also measure the quality of learning and education, as we will make a diagnosis.

 An understanding check. Since people do not care too much about their school level or learning, we seek that no person leaves the service, so a monitor will tell us how the situation is and what we can do to solve any problem with users. We are thinking of generating incentives for users that are constant and give good results, but without belittling others. We will do everything possible to measure the level of commitment of users, because with all the service that we will provide them, it will be a commitment for them to use what we provide.

 3) Physical measurements: This is the analysis and maintenance of physical points and devices, to guarantee their useful life. A check will be made so that nothing is damaged and that the room does not suffer damage, as we will have an evacuation plan due to a climatic or physical event. There will be a support in case any tool, device or the entire room is seriously damaged.

The solution has a problem to face, which is the economic aspect, because everything we need to impact a community demands a lot of money, but there is the possibility of reducing costs so that the expenses are not so high, but that would work with a source of direct funding.

 Access to communities is also a problem, many of them live either very far from urban centers, or very within cities, which creates barriers that must be broken.

If the community is very far away (it is a rural community), there is a possibility that they do not have an internet connection, so we would have to access telephony communication. Furthermore, given the country's situation, some communities, both rural and urban, are in a situation of violence, which interrupts the connection with the people.

 Other problems: We cannot always be with people, people can lose interest. But all these problems only affect people, and if we don't act they will be left in the same situation. We have to face these barriers to have a better future for communities and for the world in general.

As a leader I have been very involved with the issues that involve our purpose. I myself have been involved in different environmental education projects in the region, which has allowed me to understand how educational models work and what interaction with communities is like. Also, in the same project I learned about sustainability, leadership, sustainable infrastructure, environmentalism and ecology; issues necessary for the implementation of our solution. I am on the honor roll of the UNESCO Clubs 2021 World Multimedia Youth Contest, which gives me a little learning about leadership management and action. Throughout my life I stood out for leading projects within my institution and in my community.

In the team of collaborators, there are such trained personalities that they provide all their knowledge in the project. Inside this a teacher with many years in teaching, her experience and knowledge were useful for the integration of the solution with several other people. In addition, within the project two experts in coordination and administration are aware of what is happening and are willing to support us. Her level of knowledge is very useful to us, so we are grateful for her support.

Inside is an expert in construction, a technician in industrial workshops with experience in construction, who can provide us with support in everything that needs to be built.

Two other young people help me in the idealization and implementation of the solution, they are key leaders for the management of the project

It is a complete, varied and diverse group that meets everything the project needs.

We are currently being supported by an educational institution in the region, which is supporting us in the idealization and implementation of the solution.

 We are in dialogue to join and associate with a transport company, as this has a very important man in the region as its director, his support would not only be quite useful, it would give us a presence and support in knowledge that is quite necessary. But also the company could provide its services for the implementation of the project.

 In the same way, we seek to ally ourselves with school activism groups and with more companies, mainly with technology companies focused on commerce and construction.