Mission and Strategy 

Mission: To educate and empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa. 

Vision: Educate! envisions an Africa in which all students are prepared to better their communities and develop solutions to the challenges facing their continent. 

Strategy: 

The strategy behind the Educate! Experience comes from Educate!’s previous six years of work in Uganda.  Educate! began by providing scholarships to students in Uganda.  From the original Scholarship Students, Educate! developed a powerful model of combining education with mentoring and leadership.  The results are clear.  The work of the Educate! students in Kyangwali – from building an orphanage, to sending over thirty students to school and starting an organization that unites the community and positively impacts over 1,000 people – is the best testament to our approach. 

Educate! learned from our Scholarship Students that relationships are the key to empowerment.  Once empowered to create a vision of positive change, students naturally become leaders.

Our program, called the Educate! Experience, aims to catalyze the sequence of relationships, empowerment, leadership on a country-wide scale.  The Experience is a two-year mentoring program that empowers students to become socially responsible leaders in their schools, communities, and future careers through an innovative curriculum that includes the creation of a student-led social enterprise.   

In 2009, 375 students across Uganda are participating in the Educate! Experience.