{"id":23148,"date":"2020-12-03T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/?page_id=23148"},"modified":"2020-12-17T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:47:32","slug":"ubongo-2020-best-practice-prize-recipient","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/old-awards\/ubongo-2020-best-practice-prize-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubongo &#8211; 2020 Best Practice Prize recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Edutainment for African children\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Half of Africa\u2019s total population are children and many of them do not attend preschool, a\u00a0 critical cognitive development phase. Children attending primary school often do not access quality education because they lack textbooks and equipment, sit in overcrowded classrooms, and learn in a rote and rigid way. Critical education solutions are required to break intergenerational poverty cycles for the 2 billion children expected to be born on the continent over the next 35 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ubongo, based in Tanzania, started in 2013 and works to improve educational outcomes in Africa with an innovative and cost-effective edutainment solution. Kids can learn using the technology that is already in the household, accessing for free locally adapted Ubongo educational cartoons via radio, TV, apps, print, ebooks, SMS, and smartphones. A range of skills is targeted across age groups including developing school readiness, problem-solving and life skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a COVID-19 world, edutainment models like Ubongo take on a greater significance. Children who miss out on school time still have an opportunity to access stimulating and high-quality educational content and learn to love learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jacobs Foundation Board of Trustees recognizes Ubongo\u2019s exceptional efforts to provide localized educational cartoons to children in Africa, and especially considered Ubongo\u2019s response to COVID-19 related challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/en\/interview-nisha-ligon-co-founder-and-ceo-ubongo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interview with Nisha Ligon, Co-founder and CEO Ubongo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/en\/10-questions-with-nisha-ligon-co-founder-and-ceo-ubongo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Questions with Nisha Ligon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacobs Foundation Board recognizes Ubongo for their exceptional efforts to provide quality edutainment with localized educational cartoons to children in Africa, and especially for their response to COVID-19 related challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":23130,"parent":4479,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-awards-prize.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23148","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ubongo - 2020 Best Practice Prize recipient - Jacobs Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Half of Africa\u2019s total population are children and many of them do not attend preschool, a\u00a0 critical cognitive development phase. 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