Get involved
Time, skills and small crowds
Most of the work volunteers do here is remote and skilled — translation, design, data. Fundraising formats are ready-made. The newsletter is monthly and short.
Fundraising
Three formats that work
Each one has a checklist and a real example. Pick one and the partnerships team will set it up with you.
Sponsor a classroom
A team pools $140 a month to fund one assistant teacher for a school year. You get the school's term notes and attendance summary — not a poster.
Start a classroom fundBirthday water drive
Ask for donations instead of gifts and set a target of $40 — one person's year of safe water. The page takes ten minutes to set up.
Set up a water driveSkills sprints
Two-week pro-bono sprints: data cleaning, translation, design. Scoped by our team so the output lands in a real workflow, not a drawer.
Propose a sprintVolunteer
Tell us what you can do
Four to six hours a month for a three-month cycle is the usual commitment. The open day each March is the easiest way to meet the teams; this form reaches the volunteer coordinator directly.
- Translation and interpretation
- Data cleaning and dashboard help
- Design, illustration and editing
- Event support in Boston and Nairobi
Questions
Volunteering, answered
Most volunteer work is remote and skilled: translation, design, data cleaning and event support. A small number of field roles exist through local partner organizations — international field volunteering is deliberately rare and never unskilled labor in communities.
Most roles ask for four to six hours a month for a three-month cycle, renewable. The open day each March is the easiest way to meet the teams and choose a role.
Not as a rule. Student placements happen through formal agreements with partner universities and are paid, supervised positions — look at the careers page for those.
Volunteer applications are stored for the duration of the cycle plus one year, are never shared with funders, and can be deleted on request by emailing the address on the contact page.
Prefer to give money instead of time?
Monthly gifts are the steadiest fuel the programs get — and you can cancel any month.