Origin Learning Fund
Bridging the Learning Gap for Under Represented Youth
Fast Facts
Colombia
Claudia Belmont and Maria Fernanda Sierra
2025
Education
How Origin Learning Fund (OLF) Is Making a Difference
Origin Learning Fund (OLF) believes that education is a fundamental human right.
OLF provides training and educational resources, both in person and through its unique offline digital platform, O-Lab, that can reach students and teachers anywhere in the world with STEAM and vocational education. O-Lab delivers AI-powered, gamified training to develop skills needed for success in today’s 21st century global economy.
O-Lab prepares youth in underrepresented populations across the Southern Hemisphere for future employment. Its objective is to help individuals develop self-reliance and create sustainable solutions to community challenges.
What OLF Does
- Works with corporations, educational institutions, and organizations to provide access to quality education for youth.
- Provides training modules that focus on such key topics as IT, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.
- Offers customized education to balance local community needs (i.e., low-tech, low-income environments).
- Provides a safe space for individuals to learn, develop projects, and collaborate on sustainable solutions to challenges in their local communities.
- Prioritizes indigenous, migrant, and Afro-descendant populations, with special focus on women.
- Focuses on increasing educational inclusivity and reducing the digital literacy divide.
Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood
2025: $30,000 to support the implementation of Digital Vocational Labs, a program which prioritizes women and aims to enable at least 60% of participants to secure employment or launch businesses. Participants will have access to AI tutor development, job placement support and community mentorship.