Educate!

Mission: To develop young leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa.

About: Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. 

Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!'s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems. 

In 2016 we're working in 100 schools in Rwanda and 12% of secondary schools in Uganda (350 schools) reaching over 120,000 students. Our model was proven to have massive impact in a randomized controlled trial. Graduates earned DOUBLE the income of a control group and had a 64% increase in business creation. Our graduates change their lives and their communities, such as Lillian Aero who employs over 100 AIDS-affected women.

In 2012 Educate! partnered with Uganda's government to integrate curriculum and a student business club structure into Uganda's entrepreneurship course nationally, and in 2015 we began serving as a technical advisor to Rwanda on their national curriculum reform.

Educate!'s team includes 100 staff and over 140 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations such as MasterCard, Big Bang Philanthropy, Mulago, Echoing Green, Ashoka and Global Innovation Fund. Educate! won the 2015 WISE Awards, and was featured by Forbes 30 under 30, Clinton Global Initiative and The Brookings Institution. 

Educate!'s vision is to reach one million students annually across 10 countries in Africa by 2024.

Partner Since: 2016

Founders (year established): Boris Bulayev, Eric Glustrom, Angelica Towne (2005)

Website: experienceeducate.org