Educate! tackles youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs, and drive development in their communities.
40% of the world’s children will be African by the turn of the century.
Educate! Wins 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Award
Our latest RCT results show that 4 years after Educate!, our graduates are better off than their peers in key areas linked to improved life outcomes.
Among other benefits, our most recent RCT reveals that Educate! leads to additional education investments among women, delayed fertility, more youth selecting STEM and business majors, reductions in risky behavior, improved social norms, and declines in intimate partner violence.
While our most recent RCT reveals a statistically significant improvement for both males and females in soft skills, gender equity-related areas, and education outcomes, the program’s impact on women is even larger.
2019 marks the 10th anniversary of our flagship program.
We directly implement our model in secondary schools and partner with governments to support national education systems.
The Educate! skills-based model is comprised of:
Skills Course
Student Business Clubs
Mentorship and Teacher Training
Educate! students inspire us.
Daniel Okurut, a former Educate! Scholar in Western Uganda, leveraged both his medical education and his business skills gained through Educate! to open a rural health clinic in his community. Today, he splits his time between his role as a Youth Leader and his clinic, where he employs two people and conducts 350 checkups a month.
Educate! is scaling.
Vision for 2024
To impact 1 million students across Africa each year
Teacher Support Leaders - Uganda
Instructional Designer - Kenya
Head of National Programs - Uganda
Education Designers, Staff & Consultancy - Uganda
Director of Education Systems Solutions - East Africa
Director of Government Engagement - East Africa