Our story

EDCLUB Movement was started in 2013 by four 15-year-old school friends, one of whom had lived in Nairobi and had pre-existing links with a disadvantaged community there: Huruma. The inspiration for EDCLUB Movement came initially from an award-winning TED Talk by Prof. Sugata Mitra - see our SOLE Technique page to learn more.

What started with one mentor and their group of four mentees, grew to four mentors each with their own group of four mentees. In 2014, this grew to 30 mentors, across six different UK schools, and a computer lab full of children in Huruma.

Since then, EDCLUB has spread to a total of 14 different UK schools, plus the Amsterdam International School and Oshwal Academy (Nairobi), and our computer lab in Huruma has doubled in size. Many hundreds of children in Huruma have had the chance to be a mentee and the rate of children in Huruma passing the exams to get into secondary school, or get scholarships to secondary school, let alone university, have dramatically increased. Some EDCLUB alumni have gone on to win places at the top universities in Nairobi.

See our EDCLUB video here.