A Letter From Educate!’s CEO

In 2022, Educate! launched an ambitious plan to grow our annual reach 4x by 2025, dramatically increasing employment and economic opportunity for youth across East Africa. This plan will enable us to meaningfully impact 400,000 new youth.

The stakes are high, but if we’ve learned anything over the last few years, it’s that our team rises to the occasion when faced with a challenge.

transformational experience to youth both in and out of school.

Impact

and growth demand innovation.

We remain committed to thinking critically about how to strengthen our impact because we know that Educate!’s work goes far beyond building youth skills and agency. Empowering youth generates powerful ripple effects across communities, creating positive change on employment, economic development, gender equity, health, and climate change.

Achieving change means equipping all young people with a springboard for their future, including girls like Peace, a secondary student in Uganda; and young women like Rose, a mother of three in Kenya — both featured in the coming pages. That’s why Educate! has adopted a dual approach: working through the school system as well as supporting youth outside of it.

Guiding Educate! is our product-led approach, detailed in this report, which has shaped our thinking about how to best deliver and scale a

We are also strengthening existing partnerships and establishing new ones. We are deeply grateful for the catalytic $12M investment from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott towards our $44M 4-year strategic plan. This reaffirms our path forward and builds on the progress made possible through our longstanding supporters, who have enabled us to reach 250,000 youth to date.

It is truly a privilege to continue this work. It would not be possible without Educate!’s incredible community of champions — and most importantly, the many young people paving the way to a better future for all of us.

With gratitude,

Boris Bulayev CEO & Co-founder