A Better Africa Foundation is an education umbrella organisation for Africa schools and communities. Our central metaphor is that of the African Village. A place where everyone has their place. Everyone is welcome. And everyone works for the good of the Village.

The goal of A Better Africa Foundation is to significantly contribute to the realization of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) - "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" - across the African continent.

By mobilising and working with our programmes, partners, elders, advisors and friends we are dedicated to fostering holistic educational advancements that empower individuals, communities, and nations, thereby creating a brighter and more prosperous future for all Africa’s people.

Started in 2007 as a chess development programme, by Roger Dickinson, David Marshall and others, the programme took on the immense challenge of literacy in 2009, through the Spell It remedial programme. Russell Dickinson and others had pioneered this programme in the early 2000s in working in a school for special needs learners. The development of the literacy programme into the spell2read2write remedial literacy programme and the African Spelling Bee has grown the Foundation into a national and now international programme

The programme was greatly enhanced by partnering with Indigo New Media and their collaboration platform A Better Africa. The platform allows for structured and focused intervention at the school level across the whole continent and for tracking and monitoring of those interventions in a SMART way. The platform when fully utilized holds the promise of dramatically shifting the education landscape in Africa.

This is what has led to the African Education Village.

Who are we?

It takes Village to raise a Child!

We are that Village!

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