Who We Are
Our History
Tech Reach Africa started in 2022 as ICT4Education, a project with a clear vision; to promote digital literacy across rural communities and schools in Uganda. Over the years, we have grown bringing our projects and activities under one name, Tech Reach Africa, which can easily be translated as “Technology Reaching Africa”. Tech Reach Africa has expanded its reach, bringing digital education to an ever-growing number of learners, teachers and young people in rural communities.
Our Mission
To empower rural communities through digital literacy, providing the tools and training necessary to unlock the potential within each individual while bridging the digital divide. We strive to create a future where access to technology education is not a privilege but a right for all, enabling rural learners and youth graduates to thrive in this highly digitalized era.
Our Vision
A continent where every learner, teacher or young graduate, regardless of their geographical location, can acquire the basic digital skills that can transform their lives and communities either through improving access to academic information or opportunities for their livelihood.
Our Unique Approach
Because rural learners cannot afford, or access, computers at their schools or in their communities, we take the computers to them. Through our mobile computer labs, Tech Reach Africa takes ICT learning straight to the doorsteps of the rural learners and youth graduates.
Our Founder
Beka (Baker) Isabirye was born in eastern Uganda and since young adulthood has been volunteering for community development programs in Uganda, including those at Restless Development, Irise Uganda, and Dance4life. From his time volunteering and getting to know hundreds of children, he noticed that rural children were at a disadvantage to their urban counterparts. Youth in urban schools with ICT programs were more interested in school because they were learning how to use computers, and therefore could research their academic interests as well as school and job opportunities outside their locale. Baker decided to tackle this support gap in a direct way: drive laptops to rural schools and equip teachers to show their students how to use them. In 2022, Baker founded ICT4Education, a mobile computer lab that would the existing knowledge gap in computer literacy among learners from rural schools in eastern Uganda. Baker is also a YALI East graduate and currently resides in Jinja.
Our work is made possibly by dozens of volunteers who dedicate themselves to the cause of giving more children access to the digital world. This is our family.
