Educate!, a U.S. and Uganda-based non-profit, has been asked by the government of Uganda and the United Nation’s International Labour Organisation (ILO) to write the social entrepreneurship section of Uganda’s national high school entrepreneurship curriculum.
As many as 100,000 students from across Uganda will learn the new curriculum and take action to solve poverty, disease, and environmental degradation. This transformative experience will create a significant shift in the ability of the next generation to lead positive change.
The social entrepreneurship curriculum—the first of its kind to be scaled to a national level—marks the first time that youth across a country will be taught as part of a national education system how to create initiatives that address the challenges of poverty, disease and environmental degradation. The curriculum will reach approximately 100,000 students.
As part of the Educate! social entrepreneurship curriculum, students across Uganda will start a business or community initiative. For example, Educate!’s current students have created dozens of jobs and lifted people out of poverty, helped prevent HIV/AIDS through awareness building and treatment, and conserved the environment through tree planting and the sale of energy efficient stoves.
“We are thrilled about the new partnership with the government of Uganda and the ILO, which will provide a powerful channel to enable Educate! to reach many more youth”
said Boris Bulayev, Educate!’s President.
Founded in 2002, Educate! provides a proven mix of a leadership and social entrepreneurship courses, long-term mentoring, practical experience solving a community problem, and an alumni network for high school aged youth. Today, Educate! works with 830 youth across Uganda and is working towards developing a model of education that can be applied across Africa.
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