Free exercise books.
Real handwriting in our model.
We swap students' completed exercise books for new ones at no charge. The books, anonymised and labelled by our team, train the Neriah AI Engine on real African student handwriting — so the grader reads what teachers actually receive.
16
books collected
7
schools reached
33
students served
4
pages labelled
Updated monthly from the ground
How the exchange works
Student brings in a completed book
When their exercise book is full, the student brings it to a programme collection point at their school during school hours, with our team or a teacher present.
Student receives a brand new one
A new Neriah-branded exercise book, free of charge. No conditions. No registration. The student keeps learning without interruption.
The book trains our model
Real Zimbabwean student handwriting, anonymised and labelled by our team, is fed into the Neriah AI Engine. Every book makes the OCR more accurate on the work that the next student submits.
Why our model reads it better
Most OCR models are trained on neat Latin-script datasets scraped from the open web. They struggle with the actual handwriting that arrives at marking time: pencil, rushed, child-formed, sometimes faded.
A representative dataset of African student handwriting isn't something you can buy or download. To train a model that reads it well, you have to be in African schools collecting the data yourself. We are. Every completed book makes the Neriah AI Engine more accurate for the next student that submits.
Partner with the programme
We're looking for school principals, publishers, NGOs, and donors who want to back the Exchange Programme. Whether you want to host a collection point, co-brand exercise books, or fund the programme in a specific district, get in touch.
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