CHANGING LIVES, TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES
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Why we do what we do: To create sustainable solutions to the toughest challenges our world faces, we must re-imagine the purpose of education. A transformed education system will develop a new generation of leaders and entrepreneurs to solve poverty, disease, violence, and environmental degradation.
Educate! develops young leaders and entrepreneurs in Uganda by providing long-term mentorship and two-years of world-class leadership and entrepreneurship training to help high school students start enterprises that solve poverty, disease, violence and environmental degradation. Educate!’s alumni program provides ongoing mentorship, training, and access to capital to amplify the impact our students have after graduation. Our model is exponential empowerment – a long term investment in youth so they can positively impact many others throughout their lives. We work with 3,600 diverse young leaders and entrepreneurs across Uganda – the next Nelson Mandela, Wangari Maathai and Mahatma Gandhi of Africa.
Transforming the education system: Educate! partnered with the government of Uganda and the UN International Labor Organization (ILO) to incorporate its leadership and entrepreneurship curriculum into the national education system. The curriculum now reaches 25,000 students annually.
Read our blog for stories of the impact this is creating.
Educate! is empowered by many generous individuals and by:
“[Educate!] inspires students to do something for themselves by creating a job but also for others by helping their communities. It’s a real sense of empowerment,” Said James Katumba, Educate! Mentor.