Measuring What Matters

600,000+ students fail exams every year —
not from lack of intelligence, but from language.

Our Impact

We believe in accountability — to the children we serve, the communities we work in, and the partners who believe in our mission. Here is the full picture.

80%

of Sub-Saharan African children are taught in a language they barely understand

Age 8

The critical window — children who build oral English before age 8 have dramatically better outcomes

African-built AI tutors existed for early childhood before Ticha launched in 2025

The Problem

The Language Wall

A crisis hiding in plain sight across anglophone Africa

The Home

Children grow up in households where Swahili, Yoruba, Twi, Kinyarwanda, Hausa — rich, expressive languages — are spoken. The children are intelligent. The families care deeply about education.

Age 11 — Secondary School

Every subject — mathematics, science, history, geography — is taught exclusively in English. A language no one prepared them for. A language they may have heard occasionally, but never learned to understand at academic speed.

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Hundreds of thousands of bright, capable children fail their secondary school exams — not because they lack intelligence, but because they could not understand the language their teachers were speaking.

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The Solution — Before Age 8

Children who build strong oral English foundations before age 8 — the critical window — make the transition to English-medium instruction with dramatically better outcomes. That is exactly where GWA intervenes.

The Numbers

Impact Targets 2026–2030

A commitment, not a guess — grounded in our operational capacity and strategic plan

Children reached

Starting 2026:500

20272,500

202810,000

202940,000

2030 Goal100,000

Countries active

Starting 2026:1

20272

20283–4

20295–6

2030 Goal8–10

African languages on Ticha

Starting 2026:2

20274

20286

20298

2030 Goal10+

Devices distributed

Starting 2026:250

20271,000

20284,000

202912,000

2030 Goal30,000

Scholarships awarded

Starting 2026:50

2027200

2028800

20292,500

2030 Goal8,000

Physical Simba Centers

Starting 2026:0

20270

20281

20292

2030 Goal5

5-Year Plan

Roadmap 2026–2030

2026

Foundation

2027

Proof

2028

Scale

2029

Deepen

2030

Legacy

✓Ticha v1 fully operational (Language + Maths)
✓First 500 children reached
✓Simba Device Program pilot: 250 devices
✓First 50 Little Simba Scholarships
✓US 501(c)(3) granted
✓GWA team: Tanzania + US

✓First independent learning outcome study published
✓Ticha expands to 4 languages
✓2,500 children reached
✓First country expansion (Kenya or Nigeria)
✓Simba Stories pilot content launched

✓10,000 children across 3–4 countries
✓Ticha v2 with advanced personalization AI
✓First physical African Simba Center opens
✓GWA becomes self-sustaining at 40% of budget
✓Partnership with 2+ African governments

✓40,000 children; 8 languages on Ticha
✓2 physical Simba Centers operational
✓Longitudinal impact study — school outcomes data
✓GWA model published as replicable framework
✓African leadership team fully in place

✓100,000 children reached
✓10+ African languages on Ticha
✓5 Simba Centers across Africa
✓GWA fully self-sustaining nonprofit model
✓First generation of Ticha children enter secondary school

GWA children watching the sunset over Africa

“Every number represents a child whose life is on a different trajectory.”

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