Doreen Kessy
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| Occupation | Chief Business Officer at Ubongo Learning Ltd |
| Website | www |
Doreen Kessy is the Chief Business Officer and Chief Operations Officer at Ubongo Learning Ltd, a social enterprise that provides educational content using cartoons.[1][2] Kessy joined Ubongo in 2014 to work towards a solution for the lack of fun educational content in Africa produced in local African languages.[3] They believed that with the help of Ubongo, the work that teachers do with children can be supported and made even more simple when the material is taught using cartoons.[4] It is estimated that almost 11 million family households in 31 countries in Africa watch and learn from Ubongo cartoons every week.[5]
Education and Career
Kessy received a master's degree in Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in International Business and Economics from Liberty University in Virginia.[6] Prior to Ubongo, Kessy worked with a variety of organizations including International Justice Mission, Wells Fargo and Smile Africa, and she designed poverty relief programs implemented in Zimbabwe and Zambia.[6]
Activism
An Educational Activist, Kessy seeks to improve and make difficult subjects in education more simple and easy to understood for African children. Ubongo teaches math and science through funny animated stories and songs. Kessy also provides the English voice of one of the characters in the Ubongo animated material, a monkey named Ngedere.[2]
Awards
On 10 October 2018, Kessy was among eight innovators who were awarded with African Union Education Innovation Prizes. The Innovating in Education Africa Expo 2018 took place in Dakar, Senegal.[7]
See also
References
- ^ http://www.sheroes.co.tz/sheroes.html Revised 7 March 2019
- ^ a b "Acumen East Africa Fellows Program" (PDF). Retrieved May 31, 2019.
- ^ "Frontpage Tanzania". finlandabroad.fi.
- ^ Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu. "Educating Kids Across Africa Through A Local Cartoon Show". Forbes.
- ^ "6 young leaders who are improving the state of the world". World Economic Forum.
- ^ a b "DOREEN GODLIVING KESSY - COO - CFO @ Ubongo". Crunchbase.
- ^ "Ten Innovators Pitch for AU Education Innovation Prizes | African Union". au.int.