Give access to knowledge and equal opportunities
Sponsor Internet access for a high school student in need. Receive monthly updates on how your donation was spent, who you helped and how you changed their lives.
Your gift is tax-deductible
I can't think of a higher leverage way to help someone in life than giving them internet access.
Lenny Rachitsky
Author, Investor
The most cost-efficient way to boost socioeconomic growth? Connectivity, GiveInternet.org would tell you.
...Many reasons behind the disparity but according to GiveInternet they all boil down to affordability.
The Problem
6/10 students are offline
A total of 1.1 billion students are offline worldwide. 67% are girls
Our Students
Goodness
18 y.o.
Nigeria
Goodness wants to develop apps that will serve and transform the fashion industry!
She thinks that access to the internet provides an opportunity to grow, "as we can't thrive in isolation in a world that is already connected". To her, being a part of the digital world means being a part of a revolution!
Aishat
16 y.o.
Nigeria
Aishat’s dream is to become a computer scientist/software engineer for AI. Currently, she’s studying Python and graphic design and she plans to continue her studies by enrolling at the university. She believes that having Internet access will help her develop both her career and personal life!
Nika
18 y.o.
Georgia
Nika loves reading literature. He thinks that it will come in handy in life. He does not know yet where he will enroll and what he will study. However, he thinks that the Internet will help him to decide.
Our Projects
Bringing underserved women and girls online in Nigeria
Nigeria
She Code Africa empowers young girls and women across Africa with technical and soft skills needed to build a career in STEM. We provide them with laptops and Internet access, so they can continue with their work and studies when the training courses are over.
Bringing teacher trainees online in Uganda
Uganda
The African SOUP is engaging Uganda's future teachers and leaders in active learnining training and technical support, but devices and reliable connectivity is needed to facilitate learning and growth.
Bringing students in homeless shelters online in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
This project supports the beneficiaries of LEEDO with Internet access and computers - underprivileged, homeless or orphaned youth rescued from the streets of Bangladesh.
Bringing students in rural Georgia online
Georgia
We're bringing Internet access and laptops to high school students from the most underserved families in Georgia, mostly living in IDP settlements, borderline settlements and rural areas.
How We Work
Sponsor
It takes $9 to sponsor connectivity for 1 family for a month.
Allocate
You choose where to direct your money - be it student costs or admin expenses
Here's how we provide connectivity
Donation Breakdown
Your donation is being directed to students from all over the globe, and here's how much it takes to get it to them.
Students Stories
Saida (19 y.o.)
Georgia
No one knows the importance of the Internet better than Saida, an ethnically Azeri student teaching Georgian to her community.
Severian (19 y.o.)
Georgia
Severian, a first-year student, is a civil engineer working on a Mars rover, and he owes his academic success to the Internet.
Mariam (17 y.o.)
Georgia
Thanks to Mariam, a young environmental activist, three cities in Georgia will now have solar panels!
Lasha (16 y.o.)
Georgia
Lasha, 16, is turning his dream of becoming a sailor into a reality.
Marika (19 y.o.)
Georgia
Marika has enroled in university to study psychology and the Internet is helping her cope with her new challenges!
Marika (17 y.o.)
Georgia
Meet Marika, 17, from Guria, Georgia, a future investigator and an entrepreneur with a passion for acting.
Barbare (20 y.o.)
Georgia
Barbare secured a grant and built her own guesthouse to attract tourists to her beautiful, mountainous village.
Maia (18 y.o.)
Georgia
Maia, 17, is one of our most hard-working, ambitious students, a future lawyer, and a bookworm!
See for yourself how their lives are changing!
Damage Calculator
See what is the cost of leaving everyone without internet in your country, and how many people are currently without internet access.
Who Supports Us?
George Osipov
PhD fellow in Theoretical Computer Science, Linköping University
I donated to GiveInternet because the Internet, to me, is the best source of education. As their consultant on the Khan Academy Georgia project, I know the team well, I am aware of their enthusiasm and sense of responsibility and I am confident that they can find the best use of each penny donated.
Maia Surmava
CIO at Discovery Health
Ninutsa Nanitashvili
Technology and Startup Evangelist
The easiest way to have an impact on someone's life, give them opportunities. This is our responsibility, especially for those of us in the tech industry.
Lasha Kerdikashvili
Senior Consultant, EY
The fact that the Give Internet team works with such transparency and dedication fills me with optimism. I feel like this is a group of passionate people who accumulated valuable experience in educational projects, saw a clear need for this project, developed a strategy and executed it all very professionally.
Lenny Rachitsky
Author, Investor
"I can't think of a higher leverage way to help someone in life than giving them internet access."
Cancel anytime
Monthly reminders
No spam
Just a monthly update
Results
The results of the joint fundraising efforts of our organization and our partners
2,356
Monthly donors
$629,337
Raised
2,116
Students online
Who Are We?
We come from a developing country
and we have seen first-hand what happens when we introduce connectivity into someone's life.
How we pay our salaries
When you sign up as a monthly donor, you can add a portion of your donation to our administrative expenses. (like salaries, growth, and marketing costs.)
Find out more about our costs
We work since 2017
Our team got together in 2017 to create a local platform and crowdfund connectivity and laptops for students in need. Public feedback exceeded our expectations so we decided to expand.
Visit our local platform charte.ge
Your Impact
We continuously measure the changes in the lives of our students through in-depth interviews and quantitative studies.
44%
improves their mental well-being
51%
uses online courses more frequently
85%
improves their computer skills
Here's what we do to help our students grow
Where Does The Money Go?
Monthly updates
We send out monthly updates with transparency reports to let you know who we helped and how we helped them.
Transparency report
We show exactly how the money is spent. Our sheets are updated monthly and delivered to your inbox.
Activity Reports
Every year, we publish an activity report along with our impact reports to assess our progress.
Bank statements
Every month, we post our official bank statement where you can find each donation and outgoing transaction.
Frequently Asked Questions
A personal laptop, an Internet connection throughout their years in school, free access to educational resources, mentorship from the team, and training opportunities.
You control how your money is spent. You choose what to sponsor (Internet access, laptops, or both), you can choose the country you want to sponsor, and you can allocate a portion of your donation to our administrative expenses (staff salaries, marketing and growth costs, etc.). Whatever's left is spent on Internet fees and laptop costs for students in our partner country. Each month you will receive updates with student achievements, bank statements and transparency reports.
We collaborate with partners on the ground - NGOs who work with high school students in need. Once a student is equipped with a laptop, local internet service providers equip the family with Internet access upon the family's request and with the help of our local partner if needed. Your monthly donations cover the Internet fees throughout the student's years in school.
Of course! At any time, you can log into your account and modify or cancel your donation or payment methods. Normally we process monthly transactions on the 5th of every month. We will send you an email if there's an issue with your donation so be on the lookout.
