Education Partnerships Africa

Who we are

Education Partnerships Africa works in direct partnership with rural communities in East Africa to improve the quality of secondary education. We enable talented university students in the UK to experience grassroots international development and provide them with the awareness, skills and knowledge to become leaders of the future.

Our programme is centred around an annual 10-week project in Kenya and Uganda that sees volunteers - ‘Project Workers’ - invest money in our partner schools. Working with the school management, they design and deliver tailored investment programmes, focusing on creating sustainable change. This is achieved through investment in educational resources, small infrastructure projects, and initiatives to improve school organisation and students’ health and welfare. In 2018 we invested £48,500 in 16 schools.

Our partner schools are government-funded rural secondary schools. They serve poor farming communities clustered within a couple of hours’ travel from our hubs in Kakamega, Kisii (Kenya) and Mbarara (Uganda).