📱🌍 2025 has been a year of real growth for #InstantNetworkSchools (INS) - with new schools opening in Egypt & Mozambique, life skills courses launching, and thousands more refugee students accessing a quality digital education.
🎥 Hear from students in Kenya about what INS means to them.
2025 has been an extraordinary year at #VodafoneFoundation - from raising £100k for refugee education and new #InstantNetworkSchools, to life-saving m-mama journeys and 10M+ children reached through #SkillsUploadJr. ❤️
🎥 Watch the highlights in our year-in-review video below.
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Six new #InstantNetworkSchools (INS) have opened in Mozambique - connecting thousands more students, teachers and refugee host communities to life-changing digital education. 🙌
🎥 Safi shares her experience of how INS has supported both herself and the wider community. 🎓
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💻 🌍 Since 2013, #InstantNetworkSchools - our partnership with @unhcr.org - has brought quality digital education to refugee students & teachers worldwide. ✨
🎬 Watch Shirin Pakfar from #UNHCR share the impact.
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⏱️ In refugee classrooms, every minute matters.
Together with @learningequality.bsky.social, we’re using AI in our #InstantNetworkSchools with @unhcr.org, to help teachers spend less time preparing - and more time teaching! 📱🎓
🔗 Find out more: www.vodafone.com/news/vodafon...
We kicked off this year’s #InstantNetworkSchools Journalism Contest with an inspiring Leadership Lesson from Emma & Charlotte Robertson, co-founders of @DigitalSisters. 🌍💡
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🏃♀️🚴♂️🧘♀️ Over 1,000 @vodafonegroup.bsky.social colleagues from 25+ countries joined #StepForSchools - logging 26,000 hours across 54 sports & raising £100k+ for #InstantNetworkSchools with @unhcr.org 💻🌍
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🏃♂️👟 Our @vodafonegroup.bsky.social colleagues joined a Fun Run in Newbury as part of our global #StepForSchools challenge - raising funds to support refugee students, host communities & teachers, through our #InstantNetworkSchools programme with @unhcr.org 🌍📚
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🎓 “Education should never be a privilege, it’s a right.”
🌍👣 Elisabeta is taking part in our #StepForSchools challenge, raising funds for #InstantNetworkSchools with @unhcr.org
🙏 ❤️ Make a donation here:
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/step-for-schools
🌍 Our global #StepsForSchools challenge is in full swing! Vodafone teams worldwide are walking, cycling, skating & more - raising funds for our #InstantNetworkSchools programme with @unhcr.org.
📷 🐾 💪 Check out some photos from participants so far!
🎉 Proud to share that our #InstantNetworkSchools programme with @unhcr.org has won the Cause Award at the 2025 #ElasticExcellence Awards!
With #ElasticTech, we’re expanding access to digital learning for refugee communities in Africa. 🌍📚
🔗 www.elastic.co/events/awards
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Part of our wider mission to support communities in times of crisis, Instant Network Schools is delivered in partnership with @unhcr.org - equipping refugee and host community students with the digital tools, skills, and confidence needed to thrive in a connected world.
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“It’s so good to be with the students… INS has brought a very positive impact on the school.” – Aristide, Burundian refugee & #InstantNetworkSchools coach in Mozambique. 🇲🇿
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By the end of 2024, 1 in every 67 people on earth were forcibly displaced.
The impact this has on children and their education can be devastating. Through #InstantNetworkSchools, we've been working with @unhcr.org to provide refugee children with a better future. 🏫 💫
📷 © UNHCR / Charity Nzomo
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Did you know the "face with tears of joy" emoji 😂 is ranked as the most used globally?
🌎🎓 Refugee and host-community students at our #InstantNetworkSchools, will learn fun facts like these as part of new modules in our interactive Life Skills Course, with @unhcr.org
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Access to education is a fundamental human right. Through #InstantNetworkSchools, we're working with @unhcr.org, to provide refugee children with a digital education - and a better future. 🏫 💫
Watch the video to hear more about the differences that technology and education makes to refugee lives.
Team up, get active in 59+ ways, and raise funds for @refugees.skyfleet.blue and our #InstantNetworkSchools programme.🏃♂️ 🚴♀️ 🧘 👫
Find out more: www.thresholdsports.co.uk/vodafone-fou...
Watch the video below to hear from Rob Ash, one of our #InstantNetworkSchools volunteers, who earlier this year travelled to the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, to update valuable educational resources.
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Akiol and Sadia are just two of the many students at Greenlight School in Kenya benefitting from our #InstantNetworkSchools (INS) programme with @unhcr.org. 📱
👇Watch the video to hear how INS is helping to bridge the digital divide for refugee students.
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We would like to say a huge thank you to our brilliant volunteers who have now completed their mission, introducing our new life skills courses at Instant Network Schools (INS) in Tanzania. 🙌
📸 Check out some of the photos from this latest mission.
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Five teams were then chosen to present their ideas to community leaders, with several proposals receiving approval to move forward and make impactful change. 👏
Well done to all the students that took part in this competition!
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This #EarthDay, we're raising awareness of the brilliant work done by #InstantNetworkSchools students in DRC, as part of our Leadership Competition on climate change. 🌎
Organised with @unhcr.org, students were tasked with creating actionable ideas to help reduce the impact of climate change.
"This man was amazing! He translated our Life Skills course into English, French and Swahili flawlessly."
Iona is one of our #InstantNetworkSchools volunteers, currently working with teachers and local experts to introduce our new life skills courses in Tanzania.
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Technology is at the core of our #InstantNetworkSchools (INS) programme with @unhcr.org, allowing us to transform a traditional classroom into an innovative multimedia hub.
Volunteers Iona, Rob and Phil, are currently supporting the team in Tanzania by updating tablets and laptops.
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Our #InstantNetworkSchools volunteers are heading off on their latest mission with @unhcr.org - updating equipment, coaching teachers, receiving feedback, and introducing our new life skills courses - at INS schools in Tanzania. 🎓📱
Keep following as we bring you more updates.
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🔗 Find out more about our Instant Network Schools programme with UNHCR here: www.vodafone.com/vodafone-fou...
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