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- Hometown:
- Toronto
- Age:
- 38
- Organisation:
- Sky's the Limit Youth Organization
- About Me:
- Lara Tavares, STL Founder and CEO is a 2008 FLARE Volunteer Award winner, (read Lara's acceptance speech), an AronImage Award 2008 winner, a Harlequin "More than Words " 2008 winner and the winner of a Pricewaterhouse Coopers Individual Leadership Grant for 2008.
Having grown up in a family surrounded by computers and access to digital information, Lara realized early on that a computer was a valuable resource that offered limitless opportunities. Passionate about technology and its importance in education, Lara felt it was her calling to offer a solution to the Digital Divide in Canada. The Digital Divide is defined as the gap between people who have computers and those who do not and is based on the idea that what you learn is what you earn; those without access to computers are deprived of equal opportunities. In 2004, Lara founded Sky's The Limit Youth Organization (STL) in Toronto. The purpose of this non-profit organization is to give refurbished computers to under-resourced students whose parents or guardians would not otherwise be able to afford them.
- Website:
- http://www.stlonline.org
- Favorite Social Entrepreneur:
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was created to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world.
The Stephen Lewis Foundation helps to ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa at the grassroots level.
The William J. Clinton Foundation promotes the values of fairness and opportunity for all.
The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child.
The David Suzuki Foundation seeks the best research to provide innovative solutions that will help build a clean, competitive economy that does not threaten the natural services that support all life.
Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network was established to encourage people around the world to make a difference in the lives of others.
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