Learning Equality

Learning Equality We are bridging the global digital divide by bringing the online learning revolution offline.

Learning Equality is committed to enabling every person in the world to achieve a quality basic education, through supporting the creation and distribution of open educational resources, and facilitating their use inside and outside of classrooms around the world. Through this work, we aim to build a new, open, and fundamentally human-centered educational model, to develop skills that empower learners to fulfill their potential, in order to promote human flourishing.

06/05/2026

"Learning Equality is not abstract. It shows up in a classroom in Pakistan where a deaf child is using their hands to tell you that it really matters." 🤲

That's Sumaira Mian, Director of Philanthropy at Learning Equality.

In 2025, Sumaira visited Deaf Reach schools in Pakistan — and watched students sign along with Kolibri in a classroom where access to education is far from guaranteed.

That moment brought everything home. Watch to hear her story. ▶️

Fourth in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work.
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06/04/2026

"All this time I was sitting in my house in India, staring at a screen, hoping this work was impacting learners — but when you see it in person, you just realize." 🌍

That's Revanth Voothaluru, Director of Global Implementations at Learning Equality.

45 minutes down a muddy road in Uganda. No internet. A classroom in a refugee settlement that changed everything. Watch to hear his story. ▶️

Third in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work. More to come. 🎬

06/02/2026

"Being there when that shift happens — when the light bulb goes off — is incredibly motivating for me." 💡

That's Laura Danforth, Director of Community & Product Operations at Learning Equality.

She works with trainers and program leaders around the world to make sure teachers feel confident using Kolibri in their classrooms. Watch to hear her story. ▶️

Second in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work. More to come. 🎬

06/01/2026

"Do I code just to make rich people richer — or do I code to help other people?"

That was Alex's question. Learning Equality became his answer. 💙

Meet Alex Vélez — Senior Full Stack Engineer and one of the people making offline education possible for kids around the world. 🌍

He joined us in 2022 as a Google Summer of Code contributor. Watch to hear his story. ▶️

First in a four-part series featuring some of the people behind our work. More to come. 🎬 . .

05/29/2026

What if two mentors could train entrepreneurs in 60 villages, at the same time? 🌍

That's exactly what Village Enterprise is doing in rural Africa through their SPRINT program, using Kolibri, Learning Equality's free, offline digital learning platform.
Before SPRINT, a mentor supported 60–90 businesses a year. Now? 600.

Tablets live inside communities. If a breastfeeding mother steps out during training, she can come back and replay the whole lesson. No one gets left behind.

One cohort: 93% graduated above the poverty line. Overall reach: 10x what was possible before.

Watch the full video to hear from the team behind it. 🎬

This is education that works where the internet doesn't. 🌍

Video footage: Jjumba Martin for Village Enterprise

A new version of Kolibri Studio is here 🎉This release introduces two major updates to make content creation and collabor...
05/14/2026

A new version of Kolibri Studio is here 🎉

This release introduces two major updates to make content creation and collaboration easier across the Kolibri community:

🌍 Easier sharing of community channels with metadata, license audits, and review workflows

✍️ A completely overhauled question editor with support for rich formatting, formulas, images, links, and cleaner Word imports

Nearly half of this release was authored by open source community contributors 💛

Huge shoutout to 2025 GSoC contributors Habiba Ayman and Jakub Komárek, alongside the many other contributors who helped make this release possible.

🚀 Registrations are now OPEN for Education House Oxford 2026!Join us on April 22, 2026 as we convene to bridge the divid...
03/18/2026

🚀 Registrations are now OPEN for Education House Oxford 2026!

Join us on April 22, 2026 as we convene to bridge the divides in global education. Under the theme "Transforming Systems: Collaborating for A New Paradigm for Education," we are bringing together educators, social entrepreneurs, government leaders, philanthropy, and civil society to discuss the shifts required in Purpose, People and Philanthropy in education globally.

📅 When: April 22, 2026 | 13:30 – 17:00
📍Where: Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, UK
👥 Capacity: 100 participants

Space is limited and we’ll be operating a waitlist system to manage demand. Register your interest today!

👉 Register at: https://educationhouse.org/events/8-transforming-systems-collaborating-for-a-new-paradigm-for-education

03/09/2026

🚀 Kolibri’s first AI-powered feature is here: resource recommendations!

In our latest Kolibri Studio release, content curators can now quickly get relevant learning materials recommended to them while building and aligning channels.

AI is becoming more and more common in well-connected education systems. Our focus? Making them work for low-resource, low-connectivity contexts so educators and learners aren’t left behind.

In this video, Learning Equality engineer Samson Akol walks through the feature.

🙏 Huge thanks to our engineering team, open-source contributors, and early supporter Google.org and collaborators like UNHCR, and Vodafone Foundation who helped make this possible.

02/04/2026

📣 Kolibri 0.19.1 is here!

This patch release contains a variety of important improvements. Some updates and general enhancements we want to highlight:

🌐 HTML5 Article Renderer improvements
➖ Performance optimizations (including a ~25% reduction in JS bundle size)
🧱 Foundational work for upcoming features
⏱️ Addresses some tech debt
🧹Cleans up Python 2.7 compatibility code

As always, we want to extend our sincere gratitude to our community and the open source contributors who helped us get this release over the finish line!

To all tech enthusiasts out there, view the full changelog here: le.fyi/releases

Open source contributors and software developers wishing to contribute to Kolibri, here is how you can pitch in: le.fyi/devcontribute

👋 We’re Learning Equality, an education nonprofit focused on creating solutions for the 2.6 billion people without the Internet. Kolibri is our open product ecosystem designed for teaching and learning with tech but without the Internet in underserved communities.

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