With a goal of reaching 15 million kids, the Tanzanian prodco is prepping content to export around the world, while also addressing the region’s education crisis.
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In Swahili: “Hakuna gender equality hata Ulaya but kuna gender equity. Kuna baadhi ya kazi zinaendana na jinsia na haziwezi kufanywa kwa usawa au ubora uleule kwa jinsia zote.” Facebook Comment
English Translation: “There is no such thing as gender equality, even in Europe, but there is gender equity. There are some jobs that are better suited for a particular gender and cannot be performed with the same level of effectiveness by all genders.” Facebook Comment
An interview with the Ubongo Team who is using a new form of entertainment with learning and education for kids in Africa.
For many of us, mobile phones are not simply tools for communication, they offer life-enhancing services like access to information via the internet, mobile banking, health and entertainment apps, and more. In 2015, more than half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service (The Mobile Economy: Sub-Saharan Africa 2018),Read more
In 2016, a video of a schoolboy in Tanzania being beaten by his male teachers started circulating on social media. Read more
I use my math brain every day, whether I’m analyzing TV viewership numbers across different countries, putting together multi-currency budgets, or working on episodes of Ubongo Kids, which teach just about any math topic you can come up with.Read more
“Ubongo is chosen by the World Bank as one of twenty interesting and intriguing innovative edtech projects from around the world.”
Click here to read the article: http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/20-innovative-edtech-projects-around-world?cid=SHR_BlogSiteShare_XX_EXT
We are happy to announce that we are the recipients of a grant from the Omidyar Network!Read more
Tanzania is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.Read more
Ubongo is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise we create fun, localised and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. We reach millions of families across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio and mobile phones.
