About Us

What is JAAS?

WE ARE

Opportunity Creators

JAAS Foundation helps schools and underprivileged students, adults, and communities in Ethiopia, Uganda, Venezuela, Colombia, Kenya, and other countries across the world. The JAAS Foundation maintains three foundational and equal components to create opportunities across the globe: Learning the universal language, promoting Digital literacy, and providing Connectivity & internet access.

These components when engaged with a desire to grow manifest the very essence of what this foundation is all about. Educational Equity for all. The small, volunteer-driven organization has no governmental or political affiliation and wishes to help anyone regardless of race, religion, creed, or gender. Since the JAAS Foundation has little overhead, every donation goes deeper into the program to ensure educational prosperity is achieved.

Our Story

In 2016, Aleksey Sinyagin was an engineering manager for Microsoft. As part of Microsoft’s My Skills For Africa initiative, he had the chance to visit Ethiopia and use his skills to help various nonprofits. In Ethiopia, Aleksey saw a first-hand account of the potential the children in these underserved areas possessed, however they simply didn’t have the opportunity to be successful. Later he and his wife Jane went on a volunteering trip to Uganda and saw similar problems.

There was a Desire to Help

Aleksey and Jane wanted to do something special for these children but didn’t know where to start. They bought and donated computers however, it was clear that the children could not make the most of them. This is mainly because they didn’t have internet connectivity, English skills, and digital literacy needed to navigate this new world. That realization gave Aleksey and Jane motivation to help and that’s how JAAS Foundation was born. Their vision was for disadvantaged children to have access to computer software that would remediate the problems of poverty causing a lack of skilled teachers, and other hindrances to equitable learning in these regions. This cause is very personal to them, as they both came from a small city in Russia, and they believe that education was the vehicle that drove their success.

We are focused

A Non-Profit with Direction

The JAAS Foundation is on a journey to bring English and digital literacy to the lives of underprivileged children, as it continues to make an impact in the world it also pursues to evolve and refine it’s where, how, and who they serve to maximize the impact. Initially, it focused on connectivity and offered internet connections to schools in struggling countries. Over time, however, the non-profit expanded to offer e-learning content via an online learning portal that was developed via proprietary artificial intelligence software. The portal is intended to help children learn English and digital literacy anywhere in the world. The founders understand that true opportunity can be achieved if all three elements are in place and that no one integrant is more important than the other.

Our core values

Our values play a vital role in the way we conduct and interact with the schools and people we serve, our donors, and our partners.