Education Challenges

Why Enter Our Educational Challenges?

Did you know that of Africa's nearly 128 million school-aged children, 17 million will never attend school? Perhaps even more shocking is the fact that another 37 million African children will learn so little while in they are in school that they will not be much better off than those kids who never attended. There are seven countries in which 40 percent or more of children do not meet a minimum standard of learning by grades 4 or 5. In countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria and Zambia, over half of in-school students are not learning basic skills by the end of primary school, and as a consequence, the prognosis for Africa's future economic growth and social development is poor. Unless African governments and the international community work together and act now to raise standards and improve learning outcomes, the potential of tens of millions of African youth will be wasted and Africa’s social and economic progress will stagnate.

View our available challenges below to find out how you can help tackle some of the major educational challenges affecting Africa right now.