A message from Jay Sears, Team Dayā founder:
Last April I received a message from adtech OG Ruth Rafalovich, who I knew from her days at Rocketfuel (I was then at Rubicon Project). She had finished six years of global travel with her photographer husband Todd and was now working with San Francisco-based SecurityPal, a leader in customer assurance. Ruth was calling to work on what we expect will be the first of many collaborations.
I quickly learned the company’s CEO is from a rural Nepalese village in the Western Terai region, and the SecurityPal’s Security Operations Command Center is based in the country’s capital of Kathmandu. I subsequently have had the pleasure of meeting CEO Pukar Hamal and Kathmandu-based VP, Delivery Laxman Basnet.
Matching Challenge from SecurityPal
Fast forward to today: we are announcing a $10,000 matching challenge from SecurityPal towards the construction of our Team Dayā school in Nepal this March. Any donation to Team Dayā (to our general fund or any Team Dayā Nepal team member) today through the end of February – will be matched up to $500 by SecurityPal (up to $10,000) with a donation to our general fund for our Nepal school building project this March.
Please consider supporting Team Dayā. We cannot build these schools without your support. Example investment opportunities:
- $40,000 Builds a school
- $1,000 Paint for a school
- $500 In-country mason during the entire construction of the school
- $250 All the nails, nuts, and bolts to build a roof for the school
- $100 Five shovels for excavating the school’s foundation
Here is the full announcement with SecurityPal. We look forward to visiting with the staff at their Kathmandu operations center when we are in Nepal:
February 07, 2024 SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SecurityPal, a market leader in customer assurance technology, has provided matching funds towards the construction of a primary school in the Western Terai region of Nepal in Spring 2024. Through an initiative led by Team Dayā, the funding will seed efforts to raise the remaining funds prior to the school’s ground breaking.
“Working with Team Dayā to deliver durable school infrastructure for communities that struggle with high rates of illiteracy and poverty represents an opportunity for generational impact,” said SecurityPal CEO Pukar C. Hamal.
Hamal is from a rural Nepalese village in the Western Terai region, and the SecurityPal’s Security Operations Command Center is based in the country’s capital of Kathmandu.
“In recent years, Nepal has become an emerging tech hub, with global companies planting their roots in the region, and at SecurityPal, we were especially proud to do the same when opening our Security Operations Command Center in Kathmandu last year,” Hamal continued. “Our partnership with Team Dayā represents another step in our commitment to support and uplift tomorrow’s brightest minds — from Silicon Valley to Western Terai.”
Both Hamal and the VP, Global BD and Operations Ruth Rafalovich plan to work actively with Team Dayā to raise additional funds to bolster the company’s $10,000 matching funds. It costs $40,000 to fund a three-room schoolhouse.
More than 4.5 million people in Nepal are living below the poverty line of $1.90 a day, and more than 9.7 million people over the age of 15 — 32 percent of the total population — are illiterate. Discrimination based on gender and caste has kept children from attending school. Currently, more girls (13 percent) are out of school than boys (7.2 percent).
“Building change with both dollars and time allows Team Dayā and SecurityPal to partner with local communities to provide real, generational impact with this school infrastructure,” said Team Dayā Founder Jay Sears. “This work with SecurityPal demonstrates it is possible to reduce poverty and illiteracy and open up educational opportunities equally to girls and boys.”
Team Dayā is a group of advertising & technology executives who raise funds to build primary schools in partnership with some of the most impoverished communities in the world. Started in 2018, the group constructed its first school in Nepal. Since then, the organization has partnered with communities in Senegal, Guatemala, Malawi and Nicaragua on school construction.
To learn more about Team Dayā and make a donation, please visit https://supportteamdaya.com/securitypal/.
About SecurityPal
SecurityPal is the only all-in-one consolidated solution on the market that combines bleeding-edge yet simple, customer-facing technology with in-house squadrons of trained, equipped, and efficient “security analysts in-the-loop” to effectively solve the security review process once and for all. SecurityPal was founded in 2020 and is backed by Craft Ventures, Martin Casado of Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investors, including Frederic Kerrest, Executive Vice Chairman, Co-Founder, and COO at Okta, Anne Raimondi, COO of Asana, Iman Abuzeid CEO of Incredible Health, and Dev Nag, serial entrepreneur and investor.
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Team Dayā 2024 Plans
In 2024, we plan to build schools in Nepal (March), Senegal (June 2024) and Guatemala (December 2024). These groundbreakings will be our second school in each of these countries.
The exact start dates are:
- Sunday, March 17, 2024 – Nepal (arrive Kathmandu)
- Sunday, June 23, 2024 – Senegal (arrive Dakar)
- Sunday, December 1, 2024 – Guatemala (arrive Guatemala City)
If you are curious to learn more about joining a build, please reach out to our Head of Recruiting Jaryd Knutsen.
Please consider supporting Team Dayā.
