What is the name of your organization?
Two Rabbits
What is the name of your solution?
Two Rabbits
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
An AI-powered curriculum development resource suite for early learning and cultural preservation in marginalized communities.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Lomie, Cameroon
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Cameroon
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
Film your elevator pitch.
What specific problem are you solving?
Preschool education is a powerful driver of lifelong well-being—90% of brain development occurs before age five, and every $1 invested yields $17 in long-term gains. Yet the children who would benefit most—those from Indigenous, displaced, and marginalized communities—are least likely to access it.
Globally, 87% of children in the poorest communities lack preschool access. Refugee children are five times more likely to be out of school, and 93% of Indigenous children are taught in a language they do not understand.
Alongside access challenges is a crisis of quality and relevance. Preschool curricula are typically developed by national ministries or international organizations, imposing rigid, centralized models that ignore local languages, knowledge, and values. This risks cultural erasure, as early childhood is when children most deeply absorb their heritage.
Indigenous, displaced, and marginalized communities face steep barriers to adapting curriculum to their values and needs, lacking funding, training, and technological literacy. Climate change and extractive industries further threaten the ecosystems that sustain traditional knowledge.
These children face an impossible tradeoff: enroll in formal preschools that undermine their culture—or forgo early learning entirely. Without urgent, inclusive solutions, they will remain excluded from both quality education and cultural continuity.
What is your solution?
Two Rabbits equips Indigenous and marginalized communities to create and deliver joyful, play-based preschool education rooted in their own languages and cultures. We combine cutting-edge content creation tools with simple delivery technology to enable remote communities to create low-cost and high impact curriculum that honors their identities. Our three-part model includes:
1. AI-enhanced content creation: We train teachers, parents and leaders to use AI to co-create culturally relevant learning content—adapting local stories, songs, and games into curriculum-aligned lessons, illustrated storybooks, educational songs, and play-based activities. This process replaces costly writing, formatting, and illustration, while ensuring content is community-driven.
2. Interactive audio delivery: Stories, games, and songs are recorded as interactive audio lessons and loaded onto solar-powered MP3 players. Village-nominated youth facilitators, even with limited literacy, can use them to lead rich early learning sessions.
3. Local capacity building: We equip local language associations and partners with a toolkit of resources—AI usage guides, script templates, community consultation tools, and training—to implement, sustain, and scale the model.
Two Rabbits has piloted, honed, and scaled a model that demonstrates that by putting communities at the helm we can bring high-quality, low-cost, culturally-affirming preschool to the most marginalized.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Two Rabbits serves Indigenous, displaced, and marginalized communities who are often forced to choose between preserving their culture and accessing formal education.
Our flagship program was designed by Baka parents, an Indigenous hunter-gatherer community of 70,000 people in Central Africa. The Baka are masters of their forest home, which is increasingly threatened by extractive industry and climate change. Eighty percent of Baka adults identify as illiterate, and children face formal schooling in a foreign language, taught by non-Baka teachers. A Baka father said Baka children must somehow “chase two rabbits at once:” pursue both ancestral forest-based education and formal schooling.
Our model brings both “rabbits” within reach. Designed by the Baka but applicable far beyond Cameoron, it equips communities to create joyful preschool programs rooted in their own language, knowledge systems, and environment—while preparing children to succeed in school and defend their rights. Baka parents, youth, and elders co-created learning materials and shaped program design, ensuring cultural relevance and trust.
By leveraging community strengths, our solution fosters language preservation, early literacy, and school readiness. It also pushes back against discrimination and proves that Indigenous knowledge is not relic but resource—vital, vibrant, and essential for a more inclusive future.
