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Introduction

Project DADEI (the Dollar A Day Education Initiative, pronounced “Daddy”) is a CSR-led, impact-measured education model that makes world-class co-learning support affordable for talented African learners who face financial barriers.

Under the model, a learner’s family contributes US$1 per day (US$90 per term), while a sponsor covers the remaining termly cost for the programme delivered by Ubuntu Tuskegee. The result is a shared-investment partnership that is affordable for families, dignified for parents, sustainable for the institution, and measurable for sponsors.

Project DADEI is an Ubuntu Tuskegee initiative and a Corporate Social Responsibility programme of Wakambi Startups and the Wakambi Co-Learning Space. It is built to attract the confidence of CSR departments, foundations, and development partners seeking both social good and measurable results.

The Problem: Why DADEI Exists

Every child deserves access to quality education, regardless of family income. Yet many bright learners in Africa are unable to access the kind of learning support that prepares them for academic success, digital readiness, and future opportunity.

Many families in Africa rely on low cost, but often crowded and understaffed public schools. Parents would like high-quality educational support for their children, however, the combined cost of school fees, uniforms, stationery, transport, and academic support at private schools often places strong educational opportunities beyond their reach. As a result, many bright learners are left behind – not because they lack intelligence, ambition, or discipline, but because they lack access.

Project DADEI exists to close that gap. It responds with a practical question: what if every committed learner could access world-class educational tuition for only US$1 a day?

Co-support Learners through DADEI

DADEI stands for the Dollar A Day Education Initiative and is pronounced “Daddy.” The name reflects both the affordability of the model and the parental partnership at the heart of the programme.

At its core, DADEI is a social-enterprise education model: affordable at the learner level, sustainable at the institutional level, and measurable enough to inspire the confidence of CSR departments, foundations, and development partners. It is a structured partnership model built to unlock learner potential and create long-term educational impact – not charity disguised as education.

How the Model Works (2026 -2027)

Ubuntu Tuskegee provides a high-quality, future-focused co-learning programme for middle-school, O-Level, and A-Level learners. The standard programme is valued at US$750 per term. Under the DADEI model, the learner’s family contributes US$1 per day, and a sponsor covers the remaining US$660 per term.

Contribution	Per Day	Per Month	Per Term	Per Year (3 terms)
Learner’s family	US$1	US$30	US$90	US$270
Sponsor	–	–	US$660	US$1,980
Total programme value	–	–	US$750	US$2,250

Note: the model assumes a term of approximately 90 days, so the US$1-per-day contribution equals US$30 per month and US$90 per term.

This shared model does three important things:

• It makes the programme affordable for families.
• It preserves dignity and parental commitment.
• It gives sponsors a clear, measurable way to support a learner’s future.

The learner, the family, and the sponsor each play a role in making quality education possible. A talented learner can access the full Ubuntu Tuskegee programme while their parent or guardian pays an affordable amount and remains actively involved in the learner’s education.

Why Families Still Pay US$1 a Day

Project DADEI is not designed as free education. It is a shared-investment model. The family contribution of US$1 per day is important because it:

• Builds commitment from the learner and parent or guardian.
• Preserves dignity by ensuring families contribute to the opportunity.
• Encourages regular attendance, effort, and accountability.
• Helps Ubuntu Tuskegee build a sustainable co-learning community.
• Demonstrates that the family values the educational opportunity.
• Reduces dependence on charity alone.

The goal is not to remove parents from the education process. The goal is to make them active partners in their child’s future.

What Learners Receive

DADEI learners receive the same high-value support that defines Ubuntu Tuskegee’s learning experience. This is not a reduced or second-class programme. Depending on the learner’s level and programme, support includes:

• Cambridge IGCSE, O-Level, and A-Level academic support.
• Homework support and guided study sessions.
• Examination preparation and revision programmes.
• Study-skills and research-skills coaching.
• Digital learning resources and AI-assisted learning support.
• STEAM centered education: science, technology, engineering/entrepreneurship/emerging-technology learning, arts, mathematics
• Coding, digital literacy, and responsible technology use.
• Club activities
• Practical projects, innovation challenges, and problem-solving activities.
• Public speaking, communication, and leadership development.
• Financial literacy and entrepreneurship education.
• Mentorship, career exposure, and university guidance.
• Character development rooted in responsibility, excellence, and Ubuntu values.

Our learners are prepared not only to pass examinations, but also to think independently, solve problems, create opportunities, lead responsibly, and thrive in a changing global economy.

Who DADEI Supports

Project DADEI is intended for learners who demonstrate potential but face financial barriers to accessing quality educational support. Priority may be given to learners who show:

• Academic ability or clear academic potential.
• Strong work ethic and willingness to learn.
• Consistent attendance and participation.
• Good conduct and respect for the learning community.
• Interest in science, technology, entrepreneurship, arts, leadership, or innovation.
• Financial need.
• Parent or guardian willingness to support the US$1-per-day contribution.

DADEI seeks to identify learners whose futures can be significantly changed by access to the right learning environment, mentorship, tools, and opportunities.

The Sponsorship Model and Opportunities for Sponsors

Through DADEI, an individual, company, organisation, alumni group, foundation, or development partner can adopt a bright learner for one school term, one academic year, or longer. Each sponsored learner receives a subsidy where the sponsor covers the difference between the normal programme fee and the family’s Dollar-a-Day contribution.

For example: a sponsor adopts one learner for a term by contributing US$660. The learner’s parent or guardian contributes US$90 over the same term. Together, they meet the full programme value of US$750. This approach ensures that sponsorship does not replace parental responsibility; it strengthens it.

– Ways to Support

• Adopt one learner for a term.
• Adopt one learner for a full academic year (for three terms).
• Sponsor several learners as a group, family, alumni network, or organisation.
• Sponsor a full class or subject programme.
• Provide computers, tablets, internet access, books, laboratory materials, or learning software.
• Fund innovation projects, science activities, career exposure, or entrepreneurship programmes.
• Partner through a formal CSR initiative.
• Offer mentorship, workplace visits, internships, or professional expertise.

Sponsors receive appropriate learner-progress updates, impact reports, and programme feedback, while respecting learner privacy and safeguarding requirements.

Impact Measurement and Reporting

Project DADEI is impact-measured by design. Every sponsorship is tracked against a defined set of indicators so that sponsors, foundations, and CSR departments can see the difference their investment makes. Our measurement follows a simple logic: inputs (funding, teaching, technology) lead to activities (tuition, mentorship, projects), which produce outcomes (improved performance, skills, confidence), which together create impact (better life and career pathways).

– Core Indicators

• Academic performance: change in examination and term results against a baseline.
• Attendance and retention: attendance rate and learner retention across terms.
• Skills and confidence: progress in digital, communication, and leadership skills.
• Cost per learner: total programme cost divided by learners supported.
• Progression: transition into further study, employment, or entrepreneurship.

– Reporting Framework and Cadence

• Indicators are aligned to recognised CSR and ESG reporting standards (such as GRI and ISO 26000).
• Sponsors receive termly progress updates and an annual impact report.
• Reports present both quantitative results and learner case studies, and are honest about challenges as well as successes.

Strategic Positioning: CSR-Led and ESG-Measured

Project DADEI is built on the belief that affordable education, strong accountability, and measurable impact can work together. It is:

• CSR-led in its public-facing mission, community upliftment, and sponsorship appeal.
• ESG-measured in its reporting, accountability, and impact tracking under the Social (S) and Governance (G) pillars.
• Social-enterprise based in its sustainability, operational discipline, and scalability.

That positioning makes DADEI suitable for corporate partners, philanthropic supporters, and institutions seeking both social good and measurable results.

Our Vision and Promise

Project DADEI envisions an Africa where financial circumstances do not determine whether a child can access meaningful educational opportunity. We are building a future in which:

• Talented learners are identified early and supported consistently.
• Parents remain active partners in education.
• Sponsors can invest confidently in visible, measurable educational impact.
• High-quality co-learning becomes accessible to ordinary families.
• Young people are prepared for university, employment, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
• Educational excellence and affordability can exist together.

Over time, DADEI aims to become a model that can be expanded across Zimbabwe and eventually adapted for other African communities. Ubuntu Tuskegee is committed to education that is affordable, inclusive, academically rigorous, technology-enabled, character-centred, future-focused, community-driven, globally competitive, locally relevant, and financially sustainable.

Project DADEI is our commitment to ensuring that potential is never wasted simply because a family cannot afford opportunity.

Governance, Safeguarding and Accountability

DADEI is delivered with the transparency and care that sponsors and families expect. Our commitments include:

• Child protection and safeguarding: all staff, mentors, and volunteers follow a safeguarding policy, and all learner contact is supervised and appropriate.
• Data privacy: learner information is handled confidentially and shared with sponsors only in anonymised or consented form.
• Fund utilisation: sponsor contributions are applied directly to programme delivery, with a clear budget breakdown available on request.
• Governance: the programme is overseen by Ubuntu Tuskegee and Wakambi leadership, with defined roles for learner selection, reporting, and review.
• Learner selection: a transparent, criteria-based process ensures support reaches learners with both potential and genuine financial need.

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One learner. One parent. One sponsor. One opportunity. One dollar at a time.

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