My husband is from Sudan, and after the war, his cousin came to me with a question that stayed with me: How do kids keep learning when war has closed schools, displaced families, cut power, and made internet unreliable?
So I built Silah Online - an offline-first learning network that pairs Sudanese teachers with Sudanese students, built for real constraints on the ground:
Downloadable lessons. A public lesson library. Live sessions when connection allows. One home beyond scattered WhatsApp groups.
Silah means connection in Arabic, but it also carries the deeper idea of ṣilat ar-raḥm: keeping the bonds of family and kinship alive.
Because even through war and displacement, the bond between teachers and students should stay unbroken.
Created by Modal Education, run by Sudanese teachers - Built with @Replit@amasad@Replit@MannyBernabe@raymmar@brmiddle#SilahOnline#Sudan#EducationInEmergencies#OfflineFirst#EdTech#BuiltWithReplit#replitedu#BuiltWithReplit#Replit#TeachersWhoBuild
Huge milestone @getPrinternet. Users can now save reading to their Printernet queue via the Chrome Extension, curate their next issue, and hit "Get Issue". My python does its magic in the background and then I receive a ready to print file in my email.
This will be HUGE in helping scale Printernet.