About Us
Educate! works to directly address the most fundamental challenge facing Africa: the lack of socially responsible leadership across diverse sectors of society.
Educate! created a model of education that develops young leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa who will solve poverty, disease and environmental degradation. The curriculum is focused on the skills and experience students need to find solutions to poverty, violence, disease, and environmental degradation. The teachers are mentors who build powerful relationships that give youth confidence to lead change. And the classroom is the community itself where the Educate! students start initiatives that solve the greatest challenges facing their communities. Today, Educate! is empowering 1,400 high-school aged youth at 24 partner high schools across Uganda, and developing a model of education that can be applied universally.
Ugandan Mentors who go through a rigorous selection and preparation process are placed at partner schools to lead Educate! Scholars through the Experience, which consists of two components:
- An innovative leadership curriculum designed with the help of our worldwide partner organizations.
- A student led social enterprise that effectively and sustainably addresses a community need.
The Experience empowers the next generation of socially responsible leaders who will develop creative solutions to the challenges facing their country.
Today, Educate! is empowering 1,400 young leaders at 24 high schools across Uganda through the leadership of 15 Ugandan mentors and has impacted over 15,000 people.
For more information, check out our Educate Brief.