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School Earth Foundation

Where you're born shouldn't define your future

Anyone in the world — regardless of gender, age, or nationality — can learn and change their life with just a smartphone. A massive open school for the internet age.

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Why This Project

"Without someone to help, they stay in the same place forever."

There are tens of millions of 17-year-olds like this around the world. They only went to school until age 10. They support their families by serving and washing dishes at restaurants. Their only possession is a budget Android phone.

Udemy requires English and a credit card. YouTube — they don't know what to search. Khan Academy isn't in their language. Tutoring costs money and time they don't have.

There are approximately 739 million illiterate adults worldwide. Many of them own smartphones. They watch videos, tap icons, and send voice messages — even without reading. They just can't read.

Existing education systems are closed to these people. School Earth opens just the first door.

Four Pillars

What School Earth Does

Whether for adults or children, the structure is the same. Everything is provided in four forms that learners need.

01

PWA Apps

Access once, works offline. No app store needed. Add to home screen and run like an app. Even those who can't read can start with just sound and images.

02

Tutorial Collections

Those who walked the path first create roadmaps. Good YouTube videos are curated with order and context. Creating paths for those who "don't know what to search for."

03

Free PDF Materials

Download and read offline. Math workbooks, coloring books, digital basics guides, resume writing. Learn even without internet.

04

Q&A

Real-life questions answered by those who've lived it. Practical advice not found in textbooks. Accumulated answers become assets for the next learner.

Who It's For

Regardless of gender, age, or nationality

🌏

Adults Who Never Learned to Read

739 million adults worldwide can't read. With a smartphone and School Earth's apps, they can start learning letters — on their own, at their own pace.

👴

Elderly Who Can't Read

Family members just need to install it. Start with sounds and images, until the day you write your own name for the first time.

📱

Adults New to Digital

How to search on Google, create email, use AI. We help until you can find and learn on your own.

👧

Children

At little.schoolearth.foundation, learn numbers, colors, letters, and stories. Parents install, kids start on their own.

🏃

Anyone Who Wants Change

Ride-share drivers, repair workers, small shop owners. Anyone who can use digital tools in their own life.

✏️

Those Who Want to Contribute

Developers, teachers, translators, people with experience. One line of code, one translated sentence reaches someone's life. For free.

First App

Teaching Letters —
The First Step
to Everything

Before job skills, before digital literacy, before anything else — you need to read. Our first PWA teaches the alphabet to those who never had the chance to learn. Sound by sound. Letter by letter. Starting from zero.

For

Illiterate Adults

No shame, no classroom. Just a phone, sounds, and images. Learn at your own pace, in private.

For

Children

Before school. Parents install, kids start on their own. Like play.

Feature

Works Offline

Access once, works without internet. No app store required.

Vision

Every Writing System

English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and beyond. Each alphabet taught sound by sound, in your own language.

Contribute

Your contribution changes someone's life

What Contributors Get

— No money. But meaning.
— Your name permanently recorded on GitHub and the site.
— Use freely in your portfolio under SEL license.
— "My code reached a child in Kenya."
  • 01
    PWA Contributors Build apps. Submit GitHub PR → Review → Deploy. Developers, designers.
  • 02
    Tutorial Contributors (Faculty) Those who walked the path first. Nurses, developers, drivers, chefs. No coding required.
  • 03
    Material Contributors Create PDF materials, worksheets, books. Teachers, educators.
  • 04
    Q&A Contributors Answer questions from lived experience. Practical advice not in textbooks.
  • 05
    Marketing Contributors Share on social media, spread in local communities, write blogs. Anyone can do it.
  • 06
    Translators Open the door for all contributions. UI, materials, subtitles, audio. Native speakers of any language welcome. We need translators for every language in the world.

License

School Earth License (SEL)

Not MIT. Not CC. A license we created to embody School Earth's philosophy. Only good intent allowed.

"Knowledge should not be anyone's property. Global equality for basic education. Like water or air."

You Can

✓ Download and learn as an individual
✓ Schools, libraries, nonprofits can distribute
✓ Translate and distribute in other languages
✓ Improve and redistribute
✓ Use without separate permission

You Cannot

✗ Sell this content
✗ Include in paid services
✗ Distribute maliciously modified versions

One condition only: Always with good intent, free, for those who need it.

Let's build the
first ladder together

Opportunity for those who want to learn.
Meaning for those who want to contribute.
A 30-year project. Open source. Forever free.

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