So far the project has partnered 9 schools from 3 continents. In the past year two of the schools have launched a highly effective Malaria campaign designed to raise awareness about Malaria with the emphasis being placed on prevention and cure. The campaign included a public service announcement which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNoI-r4US7Y
They also redesigned the mosquito net to make it more user friendly for babies in hospitals. They named their new creation the spring or coil net as it is framed around a spring so that the net does not have to hang from an elevation to use it.
As a result we are seeing more students wanting to be involved with the project so they can be part of something new, different and relevant.
We are also seeing students having an improved sense of belonging in the community as well as exhibit a sense of understanding for people from other cultural backgrounds.

The project directly gives participants an avenue through which to actively participate and creatively engage. This fosters a sense of belonging and self worth among young people. It gives them reason to believe their opinions and contributions matter.
What can be more important than making a child feel counted?

We currently have an estimated 3500 students interacting through an exclusive social networking site hosted by Ning. With funding we hope to build to build a platform from the ground up. This would be a highly interactive platform with much of the functionality that is lacking on the current one to give users a more fulfilling experience. In addition to email, they also use blogs, chat and skype to communicate among individual students and schools.

In Zambia among participating schools, the project has broadened the scope of educational programming. Providing both teachers and students with a unique opportunity to contribute not just to education but development as well. By linking social justice and community service the project has created a new avenue for participation that has direct consequences on local development. It also links education to development in a way that it has not been done befre especially by young people.

The project is based around mentoring and networking and collaboration. Through the mentoring aspect of the project professionals in the community are able to positively influence participants by providing motivation, encouragement and support to young people and thus share and impart their skills to the next generation. Helping to raise confident stewards.
Children and youth have the chance to connect with each other and other young people from around the world improving their knowledge and understanding of the world they live in. They are also able to acquire new skills through training and interaction with professionals improving their chances for employment.
Through the project, young people get to contribute to community development by being involved in community projects that include but are not limited to improving access to clean drinking water, the environment, infectious disease, literacy and the digital divide by creating projects that address these issues.

By its very nature this is an ICT based project. Communication among participants is entirely though the internet using email and even skype. Additionally, students work digital media through out the entire course of the project. Engaging professionals in the mentoring of participants thereby giving students the unique opportunity to interact and learn from industry professionals. Young people get to make positive contributions to their communities and communities around the world. By interacting with other young people from around the world, students gain valuable insights into life in other cultures fostering a sense of understanding and respect among young people from different cultures.

The program's results must be demonstrated, documented, and shared. Therefore management will make deliberate efforts in linking programs to local, community concerns and assess, communicate, and promote the approaches and techniques to be learned and implemented. As a first step to assessing programs, a unified monitoring and evaluation system will be developed – allowing management to chart and report progress and, just as important, serve as a management tool.

Metrics will be used to assess relevance, effectiveness, scalability, and financial
and sustainability. The metrics will be based on the needs of each participating school.

Overall program success will be measured by:

• Number of young people involved in the project annually
• Number of schools participating in the program per year
• Number of financial and media organizations as well as institutions of higher learning participating in the mentoring program
• Number of quality social campaigns created yearly (Set target of 2)
• Increase in the number of community members serving as volunteer trainers each year.

Success in terms of individual site users will be measured by;
• Number of visitors to site monthly and annually,
• Number of active members by thematic categories,
• Number of active members by school

Success in terms of member activity will be measured by
• Most accessed features
• Most viewed videos
• Most requested topics
• Top five features based on time spent on activity, and frequency of use.
• Top five pod casts
• Top five articles
• Top five outside accessed resources

System activity metrics will be measured by:
• Number of documents stored and added,
• Number of web links stored and added
• Number of collaboration connections
• Number of community posts

User satisfaction/needs will also be measured by asking users to provide feedback through integrated site features. Which will be used for program design, implementation and evaluation.

An evaluation will be conducted to help ensure quality as well as make sure implementation is proceeding accordingly. At the end of the year, a goal evaluation will be undertaken to determine whether the goals the program had set out to achieve have been achieved or not, as well as provide indicators on what adjustments if any need to be made to the program design and implementation to help meet goals and benchmarks.