Kenyan Mobile Grabs New Investment Deal As Canadian Investor Partner With The Company.

Canada’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has made an undisclosed cash investment in M-Shule, a Kenyan mobile learning management platform that improves performance for millions of primary school students across Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa by deploying tailored education content through SMS.

EWB is an early-stage investor in innovative Africa-based social enterprises.

“What we love about M-Shule’s platform is that its holistic and unifying approach arms stakeholders in the primary school ecosystem with data-driven tools critical for improving the quality of education for all students,” said Nicky Khaki, Managing Director for EWB Ventures.

M-Shule joins other bold teams in EWB Canada’s portfolio that are defiantly tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems.

According to EWB, it is positioned to work within the educational systems in Kenya and other sub-Saharan Africa countries to provide innovative and adaptive bite-sized lessons that complement classroom learning.

M-Shule’s adaptive technology tailors content to both challenge the child and clarify specific concepts and as students learn and progress, the data is provided to parents, teachers and school administrators.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest growing and the youngest population in the world and will have one billion children that will need to be educated over the coming three decades.

Its current educational landscape is, however, ill-equipped to handle this demand, the unequal opportunity for education reducing prospects for economic growth and contributing to the increase of hunger and child mortality.

With sustained access to equal education, income per capita can increase by 23 per cent.

High pupil-teacher ratios, high teacher absentee rates and lost classroom times necessitate the input of platforms such as M-Shule.

CEO and Founder of M-Shule, Claire Mongeau said this partnership will enable the enterprise to continue innovation in learning and scale its impact across the region.

“EWB Ventures is a partner and investor, given their deep expertise, commitment to ongoing support, and shared focus on ground-breaking and sustainable change,” she added.