WE ESTABLISH
SOLUTION-ORIENTED
SPACES TO SHAPE
YOUNG MINDS.
We implement our solution through three different methods:
Education centers and educational sporting events
EARLY CHILDHOOD
PROGRAMS
Our current education systems fail our children most in least-developed countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Only 25% of preschoolers are attending early education centers in this region, indicating that our children will be starting out years behind age-mates in other countries. After starting out behind, less than half of the students complete primary school. Only a quarter of those who attend secondary school even complete those studies. For the few who do attend school, the student-to-teacher ratio is too high for students to receive the important attention they need. Around 1 in every 3 teachers do not have the adequate pedagogical training to teach pre-primary and primary school children.
Here, children are learning information not to meet arbitrary standards, but to build mindsets that are focused on local challenges and on bringing better solutions.
Using modern teaching methods, teachers provide learning opportunities for students, inciting occasions to explore topics through their senses and apply knowledge in practical experiences. Furthermore, teachers are highly valued and consistently trained in order to provide them with the best skills to equip young learners.
Families can trust in a school that will prepare their children for the future. At affordable or no costs, families can be assured that their children will be employment ready due to the quality of holistic education received through our Early Childhood programs.
EDUCATION THROUGH
SPORTS
Communities face a wide gamut of challenges, whether social, political, environmental, or health-related. Often, community leaders identify an area of need within their neighborhoods, but they do not have the platform to share their message broadly nor the resources to distribute their solution to the community.
Fount Tournament is an educational sporting event organized within and by local communities with the aim of sensitizing and creating conversations around different challenges faced.
We implement the tournament through a two-fold approach: community dialogues and a sports competition. Before the scheduled competitions, leaders, and community members meet in small settings to dialogue about the challenge, identify solutions, and raise awareness to the topic. Following the conversations, we host a tournament consisting of men’s and women’s teams or individuals. Through scheduled competitions, Fount Tournament draws large audiences to which we share the community message.
The community dialogues occur within one month of the tournament. Depending on the players and resources available, the competition can last one weekend (1-2 days) or up to one month (8 days).
Tech, improving livelihoods
In Sub-Saharan Africa, youth aged 15-35 represent about one third of the total population. However, this large demographic is not meeting its economic potential. About 55% of youth aged 15-24 do not participate in the labor force. Consequently, this region is underutilizing its youth-workforce population, which negatively impacts economic growth. Interestingly, while many young people remain unemployed, there is also a coinciding demand of 230 million digital jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Approximately 80 million of those jobs will require basic digital skills. Despite this great opportunity, the low digital infrastructure, the corresponding high costs of internet, fixed broadband, and technological devices make digitalization inaccessible for many. In fact, only 24.1% of the total population in Sub-Saharan Africa used the internet in 2017, which is the area with the lowest internet penetration in the world. It is imperative that we close the employment and technological gaps these problems pose; Fount Hub exists to do just that.
As a sub-branch of FEDU, Fount Hub prepares youth for social entrepreneurship and employment through technological training, professional development, and personal discovery. Learners progress through our three-phase empowerment model using self-guided and facilitator-led learning over the span of a year and a half.
Throughout the course of learning, we assess impact by participant surveys and projects. Beyond the program, we expect to see the majority of our learners increase their incomes by at least 30%.