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Ubongo Africa Online Education Platform Transforms Early Learning Across Continent

Tanzanian EdTech start-up Ubongo, Africa’s a producer of edutainment, used the $25,000 prize money they received after winning the Next Billion EdTech prize to launch the Building Brains Conference in Dar es Salaam to improve early learning in Africa.

The conference, which took place last month, saw changemakers, parents, teachers, policymakers, innovators, development organizations and children come together as a movement to bridge the gap in early learning for Africa’s next generation. It marked the launch of Ubongo’s free digital learning Toolkits platform to support teachers across Africa working with children of different abilities and special needs. Toolkits include sign language interpretation, special content designed with and for children with autism and other learning disabilities, printable materials, and teacher support videos and audio guides.

Ubongo Chief Business Officer Doreen Kessy, said: ”I’d like to thank the Varkey Foundation for giving Ubongo such a powerful platform to highlight the importance of early childhood development and enabling us to bring together such diverse stakeholders to kickstart a new movement for early learning.

“The expertise and enthusiasm of all those involved in Building Brains was truly uplifting. Now we have a network of reformers and a clear roadmap of how we can work together to make a real impact on a new generation of Africans”.

Jay Varkey, Trustee of the Varkey Foundation and founder of the Next Billion EdTech Prize, said: Ubongo have gone from strength to strength since winning the Next Billion EdTech prize. That they should choose to spend their prize money on such an inspiring gathering as Building Brains speaks volumes about their passion for improving early years education. I hope their example will inspire many more great social entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps.”

 

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