AprendeTo started with a simple observation: billions of people around the world now hold a phone in their hand, but no education solution that actually fits their lives. Not academic theory. Not courses that assume you already have the time, money, and literacy to begin. We believe access to mobile internet can and should mean access to real, life- changing skills — no matter where someone lives or how many years they spent in school.
AprendeTo is a powerful project designed to fix this: starting with one country, with the goal of proving that behavior change at scale is possible exactly where it’s needed most.
We see a world where education no longer depends on a school, a teacher, or a textbook — but is built into the everyday content people already consume. Long-term: a behavioral learning infrastructure for the next billion users, starting in the Dominican Republic and expanding across Latin America and Africa.
EDUCATION
CAN CHANGE
WHAT NOTHING
ELSE CAN!
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Mission
We are committed to make practical education accessible to people whom the traditional education system has not equipped with sufficient knowledge, skills,
or opportunities.
We are building a mobile learning environment in which individuals can learn in a simple, concise, and practical way — through short videos, repetition, everyday examples, and immediately applicable knowledge.
AprendeTo helps people improve their quality of life, personal safety, work skills, health habits, social responsibility, and their ability to make better
everyday decisions.
Vision
AprendeTo's vision is to become a new educational infrastructure for people whom existing education systems and conventional EdTech solutions do not reach.
We envision a world in which the mobile phone is not merely a device for entertainment, but a practical school in one’s pocket — accessible anywhere, at any time, and understandable even to individuals with low levels of education, literacy, or digital skills.
Our long-term vision is to create a scalable learning model that begins in the Dominican Republic and can subsequently be adapted for Latin America, Africa, and other communities worldwide where practical education is critically needed.
We do not teach theory. We change behavior.
Goal
Our goal is simple but ambitious: prove that millions of people who have never had access to quality education can be taught practical, life-changing skills — using only what’s already in their hands. If it works here, in the Dominican Republic, it means it can work for hundreds of millions of people across Latin America and Africa facing the exact same situation.
AprendeTo will transform short mobile video attention into real knowledge, skills, and lasting behavioral change. The platform helps users learn essential knowledge and skills for daily life — health, hygiene, safety, work skills, financial basics, environmental responsibility, social behavior, and digital skills — in a simple, visual, and easily understandable format.
The objective is not only to convey information. The objective is to ensure that individuals understand, repeat, apply, and change their real-life behavior — improving quality of life for themselves and those around them, quickly and tangibly.
NetForm. Learning model where education is embedded into daily content.
Our team
I have gathered exactly the right people for this task, because it is extremely important — we have to fix the world. Ordinary people cannot do that, which is why everyone on my team is extraordinary. We bring experience from the Dominican Republic as well as experience working with students of different ages in schools where bullying and mobbing are part of everyday life. We have the knowledge and experience to reach those who don’t see value in education — how to engage them, draw them in, and inspire them.
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Velga Ina Chaikovska
(Latvian: Čaikovska)
Founder/Psychologist/World Future Designer
Tell her something can't be done, and she'll do it twice — and make it look easy.
Māra Torres
Process Coordinator
in the Dominican Republic
Latvian by birth, Dominican by heart, and forever loyal to both. A woman, a mother, a wife, a friend; a problem solver and negotiator with X-ray vision and perfect pitch, fluent not just in Spanish but in Dominican Spanish — which, as anyone who's tried will tell you, is a language of its own. Married for 23 years to a true Dominican, José, and mother of two (ages 12 and 22). A professional trainer who corrects aggressive dog behavior in Texas, and an everyday rally driver — the exact set of skills a content creator needs to survive Dominican traffic in one piece.
Māris Birze
Operations & User Success Expert
Māris — Velga’s colleague from her very first international company back in 1995 — a company that showed them both how the world’s most successful businesses reach big goals, individually and as a team.
Proving himself ever since as an outstanding B2C and B2B relationship leader, he has built not only a huge house in the forest on the lake, but also brilliant systems and strong sales teams at serious brand-name companies — handling around 900 client production projects a year.
Because what are companies made of? People. And getting along with people is what Māris does best — no matter how big or small they are. After all, his three children have grown from small people into big and good ones.
Emanuel Garcia Cabrera
Team leader
A charismatic, magnetic leader — the kind even strangers stop to listen to. Every meeting with him is part celebration, part adventure, because he knows a simple truth: real success comes from sharing your optimism and lifting others with you toward something bigger than any one person could achieve alone. He understands, deep down, the true value of education — and he backs every person bold enough to challenge themselves and pursue something far greater.
DR LEGAL PROS
Legal partner in the Dominican Republic - a full service, multilingual law firm serving foreign investors, expats and Dominican residents. The most professional and most tenacious law firm on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic — the kind that stands or falls with its clients, never beside them. Their record speaks before they do. And it says something about a firm's nerve when its founder swims with sharks for pleasure — because the sharks respect her before she even enters the water.
Anita Muižniece
Education Sector Expert
Anita and Velga have known each other for more than a decade — since 2012. Anita — a mother of three, a teacher, an athlete, a motorcyclist, a mountain climber, a former member of the Latvian Parliament (Saeima) and a former minister.
Yes, we have our very own Minister of Education — one who can lift not only 100 kg in the gym, but the education system of an entire country (Minister of Education and Science of Latvia, 06.2021–12.2022).
Well trained, she will now lift AprendeTo as well — for her strength is great, her vision far-reaching, and her speed high. This rare combination, where a sharp mind meets strength and speed, will set in motion a stagnant education system holding back a million people — a system that lets neither the rivers of the mind flow nor talents rise.
