enjuba. Foundational Literacy and Numeracy.

4 in 5 Ugandan children can not read or do basic math by age 10. This represents 5,524,653 children. One big reason is that by the time they start grade one, they do not know letters or numbers. As a result 30% drop out of school in grade one before they can even learn to write their own name.

enjuba works with rural public and community schools to provide high-quality play-based pre-primary education through:

1. a structured curriculum - un-packing the national curriculum into a step by step guide to help teachers who do not have the capacity to unpack the government curriculum, to be able to teach and offer value to children, in a systematic way. We have found that a structured curriculum provides clarity on what to do in every lesson.
2. teacher coaching - offering real time feedback and demonstrations for teachers. We know that the crisis of education is a crisis of teachers and we have figured out a model that teachers them in away that enables them to learn best and put in practice.
3. Culturally sensitive age appropriate books to enable children fall in love with books, and learn to read.

What makes us unique is our approach that is rooted in creating evidence before scale. We operate a lab pre-school where we create and refine curricula, storybooks and train teacher coaches. This lab school enroll children from the community, we teach while gathering data on what works, testing new ideas, before launching out across the country.

We also offer experiential play based learning, enabling children with different learning abilities to explore learning and develop in the most appropriate way possible.

We are currently operating in 26 pre-schools in Mayuge District in addition 360 mini-libraries across the country. Our goal is to serve 2 million pre-primary children in 10,000 schools by 2030.