Community Engagement and Social Impact
We have the power to connect the unconnected.
At our heart, we are focused on improving educational outcomes for children living in ultra-rural areas across Africa. 75% of Avanti’s investment is over Africa, putting us in a unique position to provide connectivity to communities who need it most.
Partnering with charitable organisations, governments and humanitarian agencies, we are breaking down geographical and socio-economic barriers to opportunity.
Our social initiatives are focused on efforts to further welfare, support reintegration into society, provide digital education and access to humanitarian aid.
We improve educational outcomes for children across Africa
In 2014, Avanti began leading the consortium that delivers improved numeracy and literacy educational outcomes to marginalised school children in Kenya through the DFID-funded Project iMlango. This project is unique as, not only does it focus on bringing satellite broadband Internet to rural schools but it also incorporates a whole school programme tailored for marginalised children. Eight years on and the results are impressive: the project has been implemented in 205 primary and 40 secondary schools across 4 regions in Kenya, reaching over 180,000 marginalised students and has shown exceptional learning outcomes for these children, doubling their numeracy learning rates.
Mi-Desk
In 2024 we joined forces with Mi-Desk, to provide a donation of desks to Schaumburg Combined School in South Africa.
Mi-Desk is a revolutionary wheelie schoolbag that converts into a desk and a chair with a solar light and USB charging portal.
Having access to a desk you can use at school and home provides a consistent and reliable learning environment regardless of surroundings, and the added benefit of a light removes the ever-present challenge of unpredictable power outages.
Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Avanti has a long-standing relationship with GPE. GPE expands access to education for the most marginalized children, including refugees and displaced people worldwide. Progress toward achieving universal access to education has stagnated, and 250 million children, adolescents and youth are still out of school.
As a GPE partner, we use our voice and connectivity to help close the digital divide. In 2023 our Group HR Director, Debbie Mavis, Global Partnership for Education UK Champions Group. The GPE UK Champions are a hand-picked group of political and public leaders in the UK who are playing a game-changing role in advocating for and ensuring every child’s right to a quality education.
“The world faces a silent education crisis, and the UK Champions Group is uniquely positioned to unlock opportunities that allow future generations to live a life full of education, opportunity, and hope”.
Debbie Mavis, Group HR Director & UK GPE Champion
“Creating connections that improve lives is a driving force for our business. Avanti has launched and now operates satellites that deliver connectivity in areas difficult to reach, with the aim of helping people to realise their ambitions and build a better future for themselves and their families.”
Kyle Whitehill, CEO
UNHCR
In 2020 we collaborated with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to donate solar-powered satellite broadband connectivity to refugee settlements across Uganda.
Avanti’s connected seven sites across Adjumani, Bidibidi, Imvepi, Kiryandongo, Palabek and Rhino Camp refugee settlements. These settlements predominantly host refugees who fled conflict and violence in South Sudan.
Avanti is focused on investing in initiatives that puts digital devices into the hands of those who need them most, ensuring that refugees and the host communities have access to reliable, high-speed, high-quality internet service granting access to information, protection, and livelihood services.
Satellite enhanced telemedicine
Disaster Risk Reduction
East African countries, such as Kenya, are prone to disasters, like droughts, floods or disease outbreaks. The recurrent nature of these disasters inherently affects the capacity of communities to recover, which lowers economic output and holds back development year on year.
Working with the National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) and Red Cross Society in Kenya, Avanti and its partners implemented a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) capacity development programme to improve Kenyan capacity to effectively plan for and respond to disasters using satellite technology. The SatDRR project was implemented to enhance at a regional and local level the coordination, command and control of disaster response of first responders and local agencies.
Government – Civil
Our satellite solutions provide secure, rapid and reliable connectivity for government digital inclusion programmes, disaster relief management and critical services.
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