Thaki
Thaki is a nonprofit empowering refugee and vulnerable children in the Levant to learn and thrive through self-paced, motivational electronic educational tools. Thaki, which is headquartered in Amsterdam, sources second-hand and low-cost lap tops from corporates which it loads with third party and original educational material. It has also created a training toolkit to support digital literacy for teachers.
- Organisation type Non governmental organisation (NGO)
- Year founded 2015
- Headquartered Amsterdam
- Registration Lebanon
- Website https://thaki.org
Related sustainable development goals
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Education
- Education services
- E-learning
- Out-of-school learning
- Computer literacy
Focus populations
- Adolescents
- Children
- Immigrants and migrants
- Low-income people
- Refugees and displaced people
- Students
- Teachers
- Victims of conflict and war
Focus geographies
Middle East
- United Arab Emirates
- Jordan
- Lebanon
Programmes
Laptops for schools
Thaki sources pre-loved laptops from corporate partners and loads them with educational resources for use by schools and learning centres.Teacher Digital Toolkit
A bilingual platform with a variety of resources and learning modules that support teachers to teach more confidently and effectively with digital tools and Thaki’s educational content.
Financials
Funding model
- Cash grants
- In-kind gifts
Primary funders
- Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education
- MIT Solve
- Netherlands Enterprise Agency
Operations
Key staff
- Kait Giuglianotti, Programmes manager
- Majd Almuhder, IT manager
- Mariam Khalaf, Operations manager
- Rudayna Abdo, Founder
Board members
- Cecile van Oppen, Cecile van Oppen
- Geoffrey Alphonso, Geoffrey Alphonso
- Nadia Muna Gil, Nadia Muna Gil
- Rula Asfour, Rula Asfour
- Yousif Asfour, Yousif Asfour
Contact details
- info@thaki.org
- https://thaki.org
- James Wattstraat 100-8, 1097DM Amsterdam, Netherlands