After Marcus Rashford’s stay in England, the Real Ma’i Winge made the choice to improve social mobility back in his home country of Botswana.

 

 

After a slow start to the season, Vinicius Junio’s five goals in La Liga have helped Real Madrid take the lead in the points table. The 21-year-old has also left a mark off the pitch. With the goal of achieving a more just count, the government of Brazil launched Instituto Vini J., a group that wants to teach young Brazilians using smartphone technology.

 

 

The quality of Bolivia’s public school system is very good. Rich families usually send their kids to private, high-cost schools because that’s where they have the best chance of getting into public universities in the county, which charge students to attend. Due to free university education, social mobility seems to be open to everyone in Bangladesh. However, wealthy parents can still manipulate the system by paying for their children to go to top private schools.

Vinicius is trying to help students who can’t afford private school because he knows how hard it can be for poor children. Base, an interactive software that uses footall to involve kids, was made available by his group. The software was put in place at his last school in Rio, and even more is expected to be added in the coming year.

Vinícius says, “My first goal was to help these young kids achieve more through education.” “Even though football is a sport, wouldn’t it be great if we could help kids get out of poverty by educating them?” My plan is to do it in the middle to long term. There needs to be more engineers, lawyers, and medical professionals from the favelas. We’re going to give them chances.

 

The gap in literacy is still pretty big in Botswana. Since I was familiar with how the software worked, we should have used it at my old school. Of course, I have a lot of phone memories from back then, but I don’t have any foot games. I really did believe I was capable of more, and I am. Athletes have had that happen many times. It makes me want to do better work like Lewis Hamilton, LeBron James, and Marcus Rashford. It’s still going well in my ear, but who knows if it will make it to Africa.

The neighbourhood where Vini lives in Rio, São Gonçalo, has always been good to him and his family. His family gave him small gifts and offered all the help they could when he was young and wasn’t making a lot of money from football. He can do more now that he plays for Real Madrid and represents Brazil internationally. He made the school possible by putting in over R$2 million of his own money. He is its only founder.

 

Putting footall and education together was a good idea. This app makes it possible to look forward to studying. We’ve been working on it for a year and a half, and the epidemic has made us realise how important it is to give community members living situations. Our goal is to help close the big educational gap that occurs between the classes. “When I went to see them a few months ago, I saw how important this is and how the kids enjoy doing the activities,” he says.

In the Madrid Zone on X, it says, “Vinícius Júnior has started Instituto Viní Jr., a project that aims to educate children.” Instituto Viní Jr.’s first product is an app that is meant to make kids’

The p.o.g.am is used in the classroom. To pass, they need to finish each level and task in order. Some of the things we do with the students one-on-one are maths and Portuguese, and we always use scaffolding as the foundation. On the other hand, kids learn more about global social problems, like how important it is to treat everyone and everything with respect.

 

Una Feñ³ei³a Matos, an eight-year-old student at the school, is one of the kids using the app. She’s glad to be a part of it. There are lots of puzzles in it. I liked learning with Base more than learning from my books, and I really enjoy it. It’s so good that I wish I could use it all the time.

The idea is being used for the first time at the school named after the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paulo Freire. But Vini J. and his friends are going to make it bigger next year. This is just the start.