It’s staggering to even think about. It’s staggering to even think about. According to UNESCO, 1.5 billion learners in 195 countries across early childhood, K-12 and postsecondary have been impacted by COVID-19.
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Hello friends, partners, and supporters,
I write to you with excitement and a childlike sense of possibility, as we move into a new decade and set our sights on even bigger goals for Ubongo.
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.
According to GSMA’s 2019 Mobile Economy Report, there are over 456 million unique mobile subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa, and this number will grow to 623 million by 2025.
In five minute-pitches, four Next Billion EdTech prize semi-finalists have to convince the judges that they are worthy of a place amongst the six Next Billion EdTech Prize 2019 finalists, pitching on the main conference stage during the plenary session, on Sunday 24th March.
Ubongo is one of the 30 finalists selected to compete for the 2019 Next Billion EdTech Price at the Global Education & Skills Forum in Dubai on 22 – 24 March 2019.
In 2016, a video of a schoolboy in Tanzania being beaten by his male teachers started circulating on social media. Read more
Nisha Ligon’s article on the importance of Play in Early Childhood Development” is featured in WISE: review.
Ubongo has been featured on HDIF’s new “Digital Principles in Practice” site:
http://www.hdif-tz.org/digital/
By empowering parents to support their children’s pre-literacy foundation, UNREASONABLE.is aims to give East African kids a stronger start in school and life, and a hope of breaking Africa’s intergenerational cycle of poverty. They are a strong leadership partner of Ubongo.
Click here to read the article: https://unreasonable.is/can-illiterate-parents-be-their-kids-first-teachers/
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.
