Pangea Educational Development Group

To create culturally relevant content and programs that help children learn to read and inspire them to read more often.

To reach a 100% literate world by 2050.

Goal One: Establish a financially sustainable social enterprise producing local children's literature in Uganda.

Goal Two: Train teachers in 150 schools in effective early grade reading pedagogy.

Goal Three: Help 600 refugee students learn foundational early grade reading skills through our tablet-based intervention, Project Backpack.

Our organization has developed a professional development plan for each section of our organization, including all staff members, board members, and volunteers. Staff receive monthly training on child protection, learning science, administrative proceedures, and now have access to a fund for related further education. Additionally, we hired a consulting firm to work with our Executive Board of Directors on identifying areas where their strengths can help our organization grow.

Adaptability has become ever-important in recent years as change, as well as disruption, have occurred at faster rates than at any time in human history. In the past year, we have not only continued to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, which shut the doors of schools across the country of Uganda for 22 months, where our work occurs. School doors were again shut as we faced an Ebola crisis that threatened the health and safety of our staff and partner communities. A change we had made in the past was developing and implementing an emergency response plan for instances like these. Not only did we implement this, but we hired a C-Suite executive as a change management specialist who has helped us not only respond to the on going crisis, but transitioned our program delivery and operations to a progressive hybrid working structure. Although the transition is ongoing, our staff have managed to seamlessly and safely transition and continue our work despite this crisis.