Human(itarians) + AI, working together.
aprendIA is a pocket-sized mentor and trainer for teachers. Combining global best teacher training pedagogies with local standards and then supercharged with a custom multi-LLM builder, aprendIA delivers reliable, classroom-ready guidance across messaging platforms such as WhatsApp.
Teacher-Centered
Our design philosophy revolves around empowering teachers as the core of education.
Adaptive Support
Every teacher’s assistant adapts to your specific needs, contexts, and resources.
Professional Development
Teachers can test their knowledge and complete coursework against global best pedagogical practices.
On-Demand Assistance
Wherever teachers have access to WhatsApp, aprendIA is there to respond to support teacher needs.
Empowering teachers in their own classrooms, aprendIA meets teachers wherever they are, with whatever they need.
Built by technologists and education-in-emergencies experts, aprendIA was built to deliver bite-size, low-bandwidth learning and it’s content-agnostic. The same formula that powers teacher professional development can deliver any curriculum or knowledge set: onboard your content and reach learners via WhatsApp, SMS, email, or web.
Global Education Landscape
- 234 million crisis-affected school-aged children around the world. Most don’t receive the education they need.1
- Even when they are in school, fewer than 1 in 5 crisis-affected children can read by the end of primary school.1
- In 2030, there will be a 44 million teacher deficit, including 15 million teachers needed in Sub-Saharan Africa alone.1
Use Case: aprendIA in Nigeria
Nigeria faces an education emergency: only 26% of Nigerian children aged 7-14 have basic reading and math skills. With 3.5 million people internally displaced, 10.2 million primary-aged children out of school, and teachers often outnumbered 1:100 in the classroom, it’s no wonder why. The scenario is even more dire in the Northeast region.
In this context, sending a child to school is necessary but not sufficient — quality learning, safe classrooms, and continuity are just as critical. aprendIA in Nigeria aims to improve teachers’ ability to create safe and supportive classrooms while also delivering quality instruction.
Currently piloting with approximately 500 teachers, aprendIA will scale 10x before the end of 2025 within Adamawa State. Our users are engaged! Check out data on our first 12 weeks here. (Article will be posted within 1-2 weeks.) Our Nigerian team collaborates closely with local and national stakeholders both in the formal school setting and in nonformal learning centers to reach both in-school and out-of-school children. We have ambitions to reach 134,000 teachers nationwide in the next 3 years.
aprendIA was built with Nigerian teachers, local administrators and national ministry officials. This ensures it meets real needs at all levels. We are now testing this process and bot design in other countries, including Ecuador and Niger in 2025, as well as for acute emergency response. Through this process, we will learn how to adapt aprendIA to be meaningful in multiple contexts and reach teachers across the globe. More to come soon!
See aprendIA in action.
Scan the QR code to activate the aprendIA demo chatbot to explore functionality options and learn more:
Contact Us
aprendIA is developed by the Airbel Impact Lab, the research and innovation arm of the International Rescue Committee. We design, test and scale life-changing products and services to solve the challenges people face in crisis-affected communities.
If you would like to explore how we can partner or to build your version of aprendIA for your clients, let’s chat.
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