Civic engagement to preserve indigenous lands and provide native people a seat at the table negotiating policy regarding their lands. OMPT partnered with CEASPA (Center for Panamanian Social Studies and Action), an NGO based in Panama that educates indigenous peoples and promotes equity, economic growth, democratic participation, and sustainable environmental development. The Ngabe Indians are now filming short videos to show the negative effects outside interventions, such as tourism development and copper mining, are having on their land. The Ngabe Indians are planning to raise awareness of these issues by showing their videos via pico projectors which OMPT provided.

The Impact Network is dedicated to improving the education in Sub-Suharan Africa. They promote an e-learning model that delivers high-quality interactive education. This model helps empower, educate, and train teachers by providing them with a laptop, a projector, a years worth of curricula, and a handful of interactive tablets

Bilingual Radio for Colombia is a pilot project providing basic English skills to rural Colombian children. Through the program, EDC is helping Universidad del Norte (UniNorte) to develop and produce Interactive Radio Instruction programs for English as a Second Language and to train primary school teachers to use the programs.

The Mali USAID/ PHARE program supports the Malian Ministry of Education's efforts to improve the quality of elementary education, with an emphasis on literacy. This five-year program works nationally, reaching over 40,000 classrooms and 500,000 students. 

USAID in partnership with the government of Nigeria has launched the Community Participation for Action in the Social Sectors project, known as COMPASS.  COMPASS seeks to increase the number of pupils who complete primary school, with an emphasis on the success of girls. The five-year project combines the expertise of nine major American and Nigerian organisations to engage local communities in building high quality, integrated education and health services.

Mr. Kalanda reiterated that there is a visible change in children learning with the radio as an effective complement to the traditional lecturing and rote learning techniques used by teachers in classrooms of over 150 students. Our radios, with their solar and hand-crank charging options, enable daily access to Tikwere's interactive lessons and assist children hone their listening, speaking and writing skills. More than 13,000 Lifeline radios have been distributed to date, reaching an astonishing two million learners.

Education Development Center and the Ministry of Health have collaborated to form QUESTT (Quality Education Services Through Technology) to produce and broadcast a radio series, titled Our Family. The project recognises that the key to overcoming both HIV/AIDS and its consequences rests within communities. It urges whole communities to tackle the issue, working with learners, teachers and parents, and encourages parents to speak to their children about illness, death and other taboo subjects.

Lifeline Energy joined THBC and Sibusiso Vilane, our South African Ambassador, to provide 300 Lifeline radios to vulnerable children. The recipients were children, aged 12 to 18 years, many in child-headed households or a household with an elderly or sick relative.

The ravages of genocide and AIDS have claimed the lives of at least one parent of almost a third of Rwanda’s children.  Thousands of boys and girls throughout the country have been forced to take on adult responsibilities. Lifeline Energy donated 1,500 Lifeline radios to child-headed households in Rwanda.  These radios increased the children’s sense of self esteem as their radio gives them a new status in their villages.

The Ministry of Education's goal is to ensure that all individuals have access to primary school education regardless of age, special needs, and gender. They have constructed a parallel system of formal and alternative education systems to achieve its goals and address widespread illiteracy.

Video Volunteers' mission is to empower the world's poorest citizens with the media information they need. Their goal is to provide disadvantaged communities with the journalistic, critical thinking and creative skills that are necessary for their future improvements. As a result, the poor will be able to share their perspectives and take action on the issues that matter to them.

Literacy Bridge shares locally-relevant knowledge through the Talking Book with people who lack literacy skills and access to electricity. Their focus is empowering people to improve their literacy skills as well as the health and income of their families.

Building Education Support Systems for Teachers (BESST) works with their community, government and institutional partners to identify, design and implement projects that promote quality education and a vibrant civil society.

Equal Access Afghanistan uses a range of tools to achieve social change, such as community mobilization training, radio dramas, mobile live theatre, round table discussions, media training, TV documentaries, TV dramas and remote learning through radio. Equal Access provides real life examples and role modeling that enables people to improve their lives and communities.

Digital StudyHall records live classes by the best grassroots teachers, transmits them, collects them in a large database, and distributes them on DVDs to poor rural and slum schools. Education experts and teachers use the system to explore pedagogical approaches involving local teachers actively "mediating" the video lessons.