Shuleyetu.com

Over 90% of the schools in Africa are still run  on paper and analogy managed, while 6/10 students who fail in their academics, fail due to lack of parental involvement in students learning process, resulting to a massive drop out of students by 52% in just the next 3 years after their enrollment .

Unfortunately, in undeserved and marginalized communities parents face barriers to engage. So while students spend more than 70% of their time in schools, parents struggle to work with their children to best support them.

And here is where shuleyetu.com has joined hands in order to address this challenge by developing an  integrated software system that allows parents to monitor and track students’ academic and behavioral growth while receiving key notifications from school administrators and teachers  just on their palm of hand, through  deploying  an adaptive learning platform that supports the students' learning journey.

Parental involvement and engagement in education is crucial now more than ever, because lifestyle has changed and parental collaboration is on demand. 70% of parents are less likely to attend parent-teacher physical conferences or school events and the fact out is Parents now prefer remote methods of communication close to them, like online student portals.  6/10 students who fail in their academics, fail due to lack of parental involvement in students learning process, resulting to a massive drop out of students by 52% in just the next 3 years after their enrollment. Also, the overall Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) is 1:56. The ratio is not good compared to the standard 1:45. Shuleyetu.com is attempting to reach parents in order to provide the right information, at the right time through the use of the technology that is common in every parent, teachers, and school administrators hand that is mobile phones. In Africa, mobile telephone prices and the cost of communication have dropped. Mobile telephone use has increased from 5% in 2003 to 73% in 2014. There are 650 million mobile phone owners on the continent (more than the US and Europe).

Shuleyetu.com provides personalized digital education/learning for both parents and teachers by creating individual login credential dashboards depending on their designations. We  Connect parents with their students’ teachers and with each other so that they can build trusting, respectful relationships through effective communication while Educating the parents on how best to help the children both at home with their learning and how best to engage with their children based on personalized content and  learning materials shared in the platform. With shuleyetu.com we're unlocking the incredible yet untapped potential of parents and families and teachers to support their children's learning from their point of view in just the palm of hand. Digital school management allows parents; students and teachers build partnerships with each other through an intelligent software system that uses machine learning and natural language processing to provide personalized education for parents and teachers on how to support their students. Mostly, we want to make it actionable, so that parents can become the main promoters of their child’s development.

Shuleyetu.com serves parents of students, with a clear involvement of all school practitioners like school administrators, teachers and other school staffs that are directly involved in the students’ academic and behavioral growth. Because the software system is mobile, tablet and desktop friendly and does not require high computer skills to run, it only requires basic computer skill on which everyone with a smartphone can run the system. Thus technological literacy won’t be a barrier to parental inclusion by building a partnership between schools and the parents, shuleyetu.com aims to equip all education practitioners with the skills and networks to lead the future of digital education, and in turn, enhance the cultural competency of the edutech sector.

Shuleyetu.com is a collaborative software system allowing all the key players in the education sector to full utilize their key potential on enabling the quality learning experience.Thus the platform bridges the gap between the parents to students and parents to teachers by the use of modern and affordable technology that is common and accessible to all key players just on their palm of hand (everywhere, anywhere).

We are in the growth stage since we have managed to bring impact to our customer by reducing the paper works by 50-70% in the subscribed schools, we successful host our customers data on clouds in not less than 7 years that mark  a lifetime of a student and we do make our data storage through a world class cloud based platform (AWS) this has made us expand to more territories by exploiting all available opportunities in the market out there by everyday introducing new features that align with the needs of our clients.

Citing from Tanzania, there more than 15m students, with not less than 2900 private schools all positioned in different geographical locations, we have grown to expand to most of the metropolitan town by positioning our key employees in order to represent our company easily when needed gently by the clients.

Shuleyetu.com has positioned itself as a key innovative company since it has made the customers lives easier by equipping them with a cumulative solution that is easier and friendly that has successfully converted the learning knowledge and ideas into benefit oriented learning solution. Our innovation is to make it work with poor internet connectivity and  have successful managed to reduce the paperwork’s to the subscribed schools by 50-70% and being subject to digital education trends like the integrations of online live classes feature which was more popular and used more with our customers during the covid 19 pandemic outbreak and in our vision of transforming the education system from the analogy to digital, we have managed to integrated all the key players in the education system in our platform making shuleyetu.com an end to end platform for all their requirements. 

We currently reach over 20,000 monthly active users and this varies when its holiday and weekend times when the traffic always goes higher, we have managed to penetrate to more than 55 schools with 1200 key paying customers. We are serving more than ½ the customer size of parents every weekend. We expect to be reaching 60% penetration in Tanzania mainland and 90% in Zanzibar in just the next two years while serving more than 200000 users,  10* more,  than the current  active users.

In the next 5 years we need to mobilize most of the east African countries in the use of simplified and end to end parental involvement tool that will be serving both groups involving in raising a student . we need to make use of mobile phones by 60% on all android devices and 30% on IOS devices and 80% in all desktops with a very low data usage to allow even people within the rustic regions to have clear access to our system.

For the parents and teachers, we expect them to have increased their capacity and knowledge to support their children's learning, leading to improvements in student performance and confidence in their learning ability.

We measure our progress in different means such as financial statements which includes the income flow, balance sheets and cash flows, since with this; we can grow our business and continue pursuing our entrepreneurial dream.

New Customers, by averaging new customers every so often, we can measure how successful our business is at drawing in new customers which defines the need and demand of our values.

Customer satisfaction, this point of fact has led us to have the customer success department since our business model is a recurring payment so we need to full utilize the presence of customers so that they may be able to pay again while helping us improve our product. 

5 people full time jobs

1. CEO and product manager
2. sales associates
3. office administrator
4. customer success and financial officer
5. IT and data specialist

We have 13 freelance agents who are paid over commissions

Thus making a team of 18 employees.

As a technology led company our team is made up of experts in various technology and academic areas that make up our solution and idea, with up to 6 years of professional experience in their various fields. Our team brings extensive experience in education, development, design, and product management. This has helped develop and evolve the platform to be more diverse, robust, effective and adaptable;

Our CEO is an awarded youth leadership with Mara conference in 2018,front-end web developer and he is extensible on technology and have skill in different ed-tech environment.

However we have a list of two mentors from tech ground and in the government education ministry which helps us to be in touch with the robust curriculum and legal changes.

We have a creative visionary team that is passionate of change.every department is equipped with a goal and budget to streamline the achievement of the company, for example in the sales department that are responsible of pushing our company to the fields and we have a customer success specialist who has got a role to retain and maintain the customers,all of this departments are cooperative in building a common goal company.

We believe in employment inclusion that why we have more freelance agents that work on commission ,and we project in 2022 we will be have created more than 50 more sales freelance jobs.

We strive to create an environment in which everyone feels valued and respected and we know that when solutions are designed with the most undeserved populations in mind, they benefit everyone.

As a digital transforming company we always look for new innovations that are recycling around the world, this is why shuleyetu.com joined this challenge to be part of Solver community, we would be excited to more intentionally create partnerships that improve our model, learn new tools, reach more territories and create a framework for ongoing scale. If you want to go near go alone and if you want to go far go together, this theory is our due foundation to our expansion in new market sites. Thus its more even worth to position ourselves in the world we speak the same language for the betterment of our future

Shuleyetu.com is consumer based software as we target private schools (primary and secondary).we need to directly or indirectly reach out to our customers in a way that will increase the traffic and customers base of our services.

We need our product to be a custom concentric platform on which is not a simple thing,product market fit is a continuous practice and in reference to technological change we need to reshape our product everyday to meet the demand of the users.

We  target a great market and we have only touched 10% of it ,we need to push more and more to get work done , we literally need investors in our company so that we may get out to the market with a resource that will touch the entire available market in time.This will help the company to maintain customers, know the problem and challenges they face and lastly build a good relationship with our customers which will attract them for renew of their plans. 

Shuleyetu.com has the parents portal that allows parents to log in to their account from anywhere and any device whether from phone,tablet,or computers and easily track their child’s in class performance and daily activities in real time get notifications in form of message and email.

SMS notification is expensive in our zone limiting so much on our innovation, on which a two way flow SMS notification is charged almost $0.001, Thus we need to develop more partnership to more companies like https://www.twilio.com/and https://fasthub.co.tz/ who are great BULK sms providers in order to reduce more cost on demand.

Shuleyetu.com is a collaborative software system allowing all the key players in the education sector to full utilize their key potential on enabling the quality learning experience while promoting decent work and economic growth though the use of technology and innovation to make a social impact in the community and beyond

shuleyetu.com as a digital transforming company we always look for new innovations that are recycling around the world, this is why shuleyetu.com joined this challenge to be part of community, we would be excited to more intentionally create partnerships that improve our model, learn new tools, reach more territories and create a framework for ongoing scale.Thus its more even worth to position ourselves in the world we speak the same language for the betterment of our future.

if we receive the prize we are going to literally expand our company to the new markets in the sub Saharan countries by developing key partnerships with different players in the education ecosystem and develop more feature solutions that will be more advantageous to our key customers in accordance with the education curriculum and agenda in quality education and decent work.

Shuleyetu.com is a collaborative software system allowing all the key players in the education sector to full utilize their key potential on enabling the quality learning experience while promoting decent work and economic growth though the use of technology and innovation to make a social impact in the community and beyond

shuleyetu.com as a digital transforming company we always look for new innovations that are recycling around the world, this is why shuleyetu.com joined this challenge to be part of community, we would be excited to more intentionally create partnerships that improve our model, learn new tools, reach more territories and create a framework for ongoing scale.Thus its more even worth to position ourselves in the world we speak the same language for the betterment of our future.

if we receive the prize we are going to literally expand our company to the new markets in the sub Saharan countries by developing key partnerships with different players in the education ecosystem and develop more feature solutions that will be more advantageous to our key customers in accordance with the education curriculum and agenda in quality education and decent work.

Shuleyetu.com is a collaborative software system allowing all the key players in the education sector to full utilize their key potential on enabling the quality learning experience while promoting decent work and economic growth though the use of technology and innovation to make a social impact in the community and beyond

shuleyetu.com as a digital transforming company we always look for new innovations that are recycling around the world, this is why shuleyetu.com joined this challenge to be part of community, we would be excited to more intentionally create partnerships that improve our model, learn new tools, reach more territories and create a framework for ongoing scale.Thus its more even worth to position ourselves in the world we speak the same language for the betterment of our future.

if we receive the prize we are going to literally expand our company to the new markets in the sub Saharan countries by developing key partnerships with different players in the education ecosystem and develop more feature solutions that will be more advantageous to our key customers in accordance with the education curriculum and agenda in quality education and decent work.