Africa's AI Learning Companion.
Ticha is GWA's flagship AI voice tutor — built specifically for African children. It teaches language, maths, phonics, and computational thinking through natural conversation. No reading required. Free for every child, everywhere, always.
Key Details
- Voice-first — no reading or typing needed, works in Swahili & English
- Five learning modules: Language, Maths, Phonics, Coding, Computational Thinking
- Runs on any smartphone — no app install required
- Currently live: English & Swahili · Maths, Phonics & Coding coming 2026
$100 puts a tablet in one child's hands.
Millions of African children cannot access digital education because they don't have a device. The Simba Device Program purchases, configures, and distributes tablets pre-loaded with Ticha to children and community learning centers with no digital access.
Key Details
- Tablets pre-loaded with Ticha and curated educational content
- Offline mode — children learn without needing internet connectivity
- Targets rural and peri-urban communities with no digital access at home
- Every device tracks a child's learning journey end to end
$300 gives one child a full year of school.
For many African families, the cost of school fees, uniforms, and books is the sole barrier preventing a child from accessing education. The Little Simba Scholarship removes that barrier entirely — giving a full year of schooling to children who would otherwise be left behind.
Key Details
- Covers tuition, school fees, uniforms, shoes, and books — the full package
- Targets children aged 3–13 in public primary and pre-primary schools
- Priority given to girls, orphans, and lowest-income families
- Renewable annually — families supported and tracked alongside each child
No device? We still reach your child.
For children without any device or connectivity at home, African Little Simba brings learning to the community itself. GWA facilitates regular blended learning sessions in community centers, schools, and open-air spaces — combining digital tools with in-person facilitation.
Key Details
- Regular in-person sessions run by trained community educators
- Blended digital + analog curriculum for children aged 3–12 with no home access
- Partners with schools, churches, and community halls across Tanzania
- Long-term vision: purpose-built African Simba Centers
Stories that look, sound, and feel African.
Children learn best through stories. Simba Stories creates original African children's content that educates while it entertains — from animated stories rooted in African culture to an annual children's festival, to our long-term vision of African Simba Centers.
Key Details
- Original animated and audio stories rooted in African culture and languages
- Content aligned with GWA's curriculum: language, values, social-emotional learning
- Annual Simba Children's Festival celebrating African children's creativity
- Long-term vision: physical African Simba Centers as community learning hubs
On the ground in Tanzania. Expanding across Africa.
GWA currently operates directly within rural and urban communities across Tanzania, reaching children who are physically, economically, and socially challenged to access early childhood education.
By 2028, our strategic plan calls for expansion into three additional African countries — focused on the anglophone East and West Africa corridor, where the language barrier problem is most acute.
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