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We Encourage Disadvantaged Children to Learn Using Broadband

Our mission is simple: to give disadvantaged children access to computers and encourage them to learn using the internet.

As internet access becomes increasingly universal, everyone should have the tools and confidence to harness the knowledge available online to expand their own education beyond formal schooling.

How it works

1. Become a mentor

If you want to get involved then please email us at edclubmovement@gmail.com or by filling out the form on our Contact Us page.

2. Raise the funds

Mentors raise approximately £100 towards the costs of their share of a computer and internet access in our computer lab in Nairobi.

3. Ask the questions

Two times per week via Teams, teenage mentors set their assigned group of children (“mentees”) questions that would previously have been beyond their reach, challenging the mentees to explore the internet to find the answers. See our SOLE Technique page for more information. 

Why join?

  • For the mentees

    Mentees get the chance not only to expand their education beyond what is available at primary school, but also to learn the computer literacy, English language skills and confidence that secondary schools, universities and potential future employers are looking for.

  • For the mentors

    Mentors develop their communication, relationship-building and leadership skills, while getting an insight into life where there are fewer immediately open doors. EDCLUB also fulfils IB and DofE volunteering requirements - see our DofE/IB page for more.

Testimonials

  • Victoria - 2013 mentee

    “I am so thankful to EDCLUB Movement for the love and support towards Huruma village. I am one lucky beneficiary of the EDCLUB project. I was among the first kids to join EDCLUB. My mother couldn’t afford to pay my school fees but through the help of my mentors I managed to study to access my high school education and university. I am proud of myself so much for graduating from university with a degree. I am the first student from EDCLUB project to graduate and am so happy to encourage the other kids to study without giving up so that they can achieve their goals like I did. Dearest EDCLUB Movement thank you for giving me the opportunity to chase my dreams. Thank you all and God bless you for the work you are doing.”

  • Bernice - 2023 mentor

    “I was skyping with a girl named Grace* who is 13 years old. She is so special!! We were asking questions to each other. She first asked me what do I love about myself, I was a bit shocked about this because she was the first EDCLUB mentee to ask this type of question. While I was thinking about how to answer this question, she told me that I could say 'I love myself because I am beautiful' because she thinks I am ( I was really touched). Then I asked her what she loves about herself and she said 'l am always truthful to myself all the time.' We also talked about future career, friends, study and hobbies, I found out that she is very optimistic and sincere. I told her that I think she is a strong, independent, kind and smart person! Even I don't have the confidence to say 'I love myself because I think I am beautiful' to someone first I met. She's just so great!”

  • Amanda - Sherborne Girls School teacher

    “It is wonderful to hear when the Sherborne Girls students realise that they can make life changing differences to others through their volunteering. By chance, last week I witnessed one student giving an online Chemistry/Biology session to a young female EDCLUB mentor. The lesson consisted of experiments on photosynthesis (skin cells), reactivity with metals and the separating of sand and salt.!  It was quite extraordinary listening to the two of them working their way through these online experiments - one student from a very comfortable educational establishment helping the other student from the slums of Nairobi whose passion to better herself has been through attending the weekly EDCLUB mentoring sessions. It was one of the most humbling experiences that I have witnessed here at Sherborne Girls.”

  • Jon May - D of E Secretary General

    “EDCLUB is a strikingly innovative service programme.”