Educate!

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 2018, we’re working in 175 secondary schools in rwanda and over 700 schools in uganda (25% of the country) reaching over 42,000 students intensively and 530,000 more broadly. 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 curric