Tuteefirst

School closures due to Covid-19 pandemic impacted around 250 million students in sub-Saharan Africa, adding to the 100 million out of school children before the pandemic. Learning completely stopped for most of them, which has already reduced their lifelong earning potential. Millions are unlikely to ever return to the classroom especially the underprivileged.

The World Bank estimates  school closures lasting five months will lower the lifetime earnings ofthese children by a total of $10 trillion.To date, 188 countries have imposed countrywide school closures, affecting more than 1.5 billion children and youth (UNSDG, 2020).

We want to close that gap by developing a cheap and affordable online education platform which use artificial intelligence for both the privileged and underprivileged.

We are working on to solve the problem of equitable classrooms through provision of quality and save education to both the priviledged and underpriviledged kids.In Zimbabwe more than 1 million primary and secondary kids dropped out of school due to Covid-19 pandemic.At the height of Covid-19,” 192 countries shuttered schools, leaving 1.6 billion students without in-person learning, (Fore, 2020).

We have a Learning management system were students subscribe weekly or monthly to access pre-recorded videos, exam guides, past papers at a very cheap price. We have a One on One package which is a  bit expensive and also a package for those who want to study programming skills such as game development, website development etc. Our system uses artificial intelligence to connect students to tutors.

We want to improve the lives of the underpriviledged kids those who are attending government or rural schools. These are kids in the age range of 6-18years.These kids are learning  in under served schools. The schools in don't have enough books. The student to teacher ratio is 50:1. 90% of the schools are doing hot sitting because teachers are not enough.In addition, most of the teachers are not qualified meaning poor education.

60% of Zimbabweans youth have smart phones and 58% of those smart phone  users  have access to internet.  Our target population are students in Government schools in urban and rural areas and these schools are well equipped with computers. There are a quite number of wi-fi hot spots in Central Business Districts in Zimbabwe so data costs to students will not be a barrier since students can just visit those hot spots to access internet. The rich kids have wi-fi connections in their homes. Wi-fi installations is even increasing in high density areas of Harare the capital of Zimbabwe.

We are testing our services in Hatcliffe and Borrowdale. The target population is those areas is around 10 000 learners both primary and secondary. 500 learners  are testing our services and 90% of them are happy with our services. We are planning to increase the number of learners to 2000 learners in 3 months time and to 9000 by the first quarter of 2021.