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What is Ubuntu.Lab?
Ubuntu.Lab, initiated by Martin & Aggie Kalungu-Banda and Julie Arts of the Presencing Institute, is an online-to-offline applied learning program whose aim is to contribute to the development of Africa by activating a movement of innovators, change-makers and emerging leaders across the continent. Time has come for the philosophy of ‘Ubuntu’ to be the guiding and organising principle for shaping Africa’s future. Ubuntu.Lab’s unique format (online-to-offline) aspires to be an example of 21st Century education and movement building.
We seek your help to raise $200,000 to enable us train 150 facilitators in 2020.
What has Ubuntu.Lab achieved so far?
Since its launch on 25 September 2018, Ubuntu.Lab has run two cohorts, attracting a total of 480 participants (change-makers, innovators & emerging leaders) from 19 African countries. Prototypes that have emerged from the two cohorts include:
- Helping women turn their efforts in agriculture into viable businesses
- How to reverse the growing numbers of teenage suicide cases and mental health challenges
- Financial literacy on a large scale
- How to promote entrepreneurship among young people
What is the ambition of Ubuntu.Lab?
- To run two cohorts per year of 10,000 learners across Africa.
- To produce - from each cohort - a minimum of 1,000 viable prototypes that have genuine potential for scale to address Africa’s development challenges
- To train annually 200 facilitators with the skills of how to lead innovation/transformation processes.
- To use Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 to create solutions that lead to at least 500 new jobs annually.
- To run theme based Cohorts in Energy, SDGs, Agriculture, Climate Change & 21st Century Economics.
Your donation will enable us to:
- train facilitators to host learning across the continent
- support prototypes that show potential for wider impact
- enable young Africans to join the Ubuntu.Lab
