Facebook’s CEO Donates About 92 Million Kshs To Kenya And Uganda
Launched in 2004 by a college dropout and his colleagues, Facebook has become one of the biggest sites in the world.
And at the age of 23, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg became a dollar billionaire and was even listed by Time magazine among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world.
Following in the footsteps of other techies such as Bill Gates who have made it to the big leagues, Mark is giving back, 10 Million Dollars to be precise to Bridge International Academies.
This is what he shared on his site yesterday:
As part of Priscilla and my ongoing work to support education, we’re excited to invest $10 million in Bridge International Academies to support their innovative education program in Africa.
Since 2009, Bridge has created a network of more than 400 primary and pre-primary schools in Kenya and Uganda that serve more than 100,000 students. At Bridge schools, students can receive a high quality education for extremely low cost, with many students coming from families earning less than $2 a day.
The way Bridge delivers this is by using technology. At Bridge schools, teachers and students use tablet computers connected to the internet to receive lesson plans and classroom content from Bridge’s master teachers. These teachers also track student test scores, and then use this data to quickly refine learning materials and send these back to classrooms. This rapid feedback loop means that education content is always getting better and students don’t need to constantly purchase new books, which is too expensive for most families to afford.
Bridge has built a really impressive model for managing and expanding their schools. They’re already trained around 10,000 teachers from local communities, and on average a new academy is opening every three days. In the next 5 years they expect to have more than one million students. This investment will help Bridge to scale their model to more students in more countries, and I’m excited to join Bill Gates and others in supporting this.
Education is a powerful force for lifting up people and societies. I’m hopeful this investment will create incredible change in many communities. You can learn more at http://www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com/
