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Educating an African Girl Child through coding everywhere

Team Leader
Mushusha Richard
Solution Overview & Team Lead Details
Our Organization
Whole Mentorship Organization
What is the name of your solution?
Educating an African Girl Child through coding everywhere
Provide a one-line summary of your solution.
We provide the best learning programs for an African child using easy to understand concepts including games, cartoon and pictures.
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What specific problem are you solving?

In Uganda alone, there are currently, 32 universities in Uganda all accounting for a student population of about 110,000, turning out over 30,000 graduates annually. 8.5 million Are in Primary school according to National planning Authority Uganda. The consequences of the pandemics and epidemics of diseases caused a lot of problems with all these children, many leading to school dropouts and thus affecting the quality and quantity of 30,000 graduates annually. Since there has been increased mobile telephony and internet usage, education of these children can be improved with the use of technology.

What is your solution?

We provide the best learning programs for an African child using easy to understand concepts including games, cartoon, pictures, specifying in basic concepts like building a basic website development, basic web programming, Social media advertising, Socket programming and mobile application development

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Our solution serves school going children, school dropouts, girls, women and all not formal and formal workers.

Increased  learning will enable children to more practical at their future careers since many of the jobs these days require computer skills. There will be equal competition between males and females in the work places as more girls will be getting access to computer skills.

 

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

Mushusha Richard, CEO and Co-Founder.

Richard has over 8 years’ experience in developing , deploying and maintaining technology companies  and 2 years of active teaching in both primary, secondary and higher level studies in Uganda.

Kamugisha Christopher; Business developer.

A statician by profession, Chris has over 10 years’ experience in Statistics and Accounting.

Atukunda Jalia: (Program’s developer). Jalia has experience in child management as she has worked with many NGO,S on rehabilitating street children and returning them back to their homes.

Ladura Prossy: Accountant:She does the day to day accounting activities of Whole Mentorship Organisation.

 

ADVISORS

DR’ Katungye Byooma (phd)

Katungye is a school Director of Kaicumu Secondary school in Kazo district, Uganda where he enrolls over 1000 students annually.

Prof.Tobias Kakuke:

He is a Lecturer of UTUSMC Tertiary University and has been at the fore front of teaching for the last 3 decades.

 

 

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
  • Enable personalized learning and individualized instruction for learners who are most at risk for disengagement and school drop-out
Where our solution team is headquartered or located:
Kampala, Uganda
Our solution's stage of development:
  • Pilot
How many people does your solution currently serve?
6000
Why are you applying to Solve?



We are looking for strategic partnerships including schools, education enterprises, learners and computer trainers. This will enable us onboard more schools and academic institutions into our platform for easy access to leaners. We will use this opportunity to onboard more computer trainers and both professional and self-taught programmers from the pool of MIT solve community. This will increase on our trainer’s capacity in form of both quantity and quality. This will increase on our capacity to onboard many learners in our coding programs and sessions including Kid’s coding and women and girls programing sessions and programs. We will use this opportunity to improve our  strategic partnerships with different schools and institutions to get access to many students and dropouts and include them in our programming challenges. This will help us scale to all Sub-Saharan Countries in the next three years and will thus will increase programming knowledge access to youths.

In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?
  • Financial (e.g. improving accounting practices, pitching to investors)
Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
Mushusha Richard
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