Anansi provides a platform for skill exchange: teaching and learning.
Anansi provides users with a platform to teach their current skills and to learn new skills, therefore, both strengthening and expanding their abilities. Anansi’s underlying philosophy is that everyone has little dreams they want to pursue such as knitting, beekeeping, and photography but they do not even know where to begin. Through one-on-one meetings, a teacher shows them not only a starting point but also a process. Meeting with an instructor also creates accountability and helps individuals escape the cycle of “what if” and “only if.” Through multiple incentives such as learning new skills, gaining recorded volunteer hours, building one’s resume, and teaching personal passions, Anansi encourages usage. Anansi will track all hours spent both learning and teaching.