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Welcome to Power Teachers Africa

Putting the power into teachers’ hands to teach effectively and improve children’s learning.

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About Us

Power Teachers Africa is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization that provides cost-effective teacher motivation focused support to government schools across Africa to address teacher absenteeism, teacher retention, and improve learning outcomes. We also offer education services to support this work. We believe that teachers are THE key to addressing the learning crisis across Sub-Saharan Africa, in which 9 out 10 children aged ten are unable to read a simple text. (World Bank,2023). We believe that the elephant in the classroom, teacher absenteeism, is a key reason for the learning crisis.

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Mission

Motivated and empowered teachers providing high quality education for all children across Africa.

Motto

Everything we do is driven by our motto – “Teachers matter. Teacher Motivation Matters. Teachers are THE key

Vision

Develop a cadre of Power Teachers who use their power to transform lives through improving their students’ learning.

What we do
Power Teachers for Learning
We work with Ministries of Education and partners to support teachers’ transformation into Power Teachers. We use proven best teaching practices and motivation focused teachers support strategies. The teachers we work with become power teachers.

Power Teachers for Learning Model

We have begun work with the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) Uganda. We are currently developing a low-cost administration light mobile phone based incentive and professional development App, which we will use to incentivise teachers intrinsically and financially:

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  • to teach all their classes every day,
  • to improve learning outcomes, and
  • to complete professional development activities.

The technology tools will develop teachers’ capacities to use evidence based teaching practices that improve learning outcomes, as well as motivate them to teach all their classes effectively. The App will include a suite of MoES approved digital teaching courses. Once the App has been developed, refined and finalised, we will use the Power Teachers model to work with the headteachers and all the teachers in selected government schools, as well as district inspectors and in-service teacher educators.


To inform the refining of our model and the development of the App, in February 2025, we begun piloting our Power Teachers for Learning model in a primary school in Eastern Uganda, working with 31 teachers (21 female), 1,777 children (1,020 girls), headteacher, parents, community members, district and MoES officials. Learn more here. In early March 2025, UWEZO Uganda conducted a baseline learning survey.





Power Teachers for life skills


Power Teachers Africa is partnering with Simba Wolfhounds, a voluntary Ugandan organization, and the first official Gaelic [Irish] Athletics Association (GAA) registered club in Africa. The initiative equips teachers with skills to deliver structured physical education and develop children’s 21st-century life skills — including cooperation, well-being, and resilience — through Gaelic Football and handball.

The programme will work with schools and train trains teachers to coach these sports, supporting them with monthly financial incentives to sustain and grow the impact.



Education Services
To support our work, we offer Education Services, with all profits being used to fund our work with teachers in government schools.
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Teacher focused services

We provide teacher focused services for a variety of clients across all aspects of teacher support, such as professional development, teacher management systems, pre-service, gender, climate change education, inclusion, teachers in crisis settings, and retention, with our team having extensive expertise and experience in all areas concerning teachers and teaching and learning.

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Education Consultancy services

We offer education consultancy services in all areas of education. We have dozens of consultants on our database, who are the best proven Education development consultants across Africa with hundreds of years’ experience in all thematic areas of Education and international development, as well as monitoring and evaluation, project management, research, training, and facilitation.

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Meet Our Team

Board of Directors

Dr. Florence Malinga

Dr. Florence Malinga

Board Chairperson

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Vice Chairperson

Teopista Birungi

Vice Chairperson

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Benah Siminyu

Benah Siminyu

Board Member

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Deborah Walsh

Deborah Walsh

Board Member

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Frederick Mwesigye

Frederick Mwesigye

Board Member

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John Francis Ekudi

John Francis Ekudi

Board Member

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Professor Jude Lubega

Professor Jude Lubega

Board Member

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Soomah Mukyala Fouziya

Soomah Mukyala Fouziya

Board Member

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Scholastica Tiguryera

Scholastica Tiguryera

Board Member

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Our Team

Dr Emmanuel Khabusi Kamuli

Dr Emmanuel Khabusi Kamuli

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Power Teachers Africa

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Dr. Margo O’Sullivan

Dr. Margo O’Sullivan

Director Programmes and co-founder of Power Teachers Africa

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Edward Wamala

Edward Wamala

Director of Operations and co-founder of Power Teachers Africa

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Marie Asiimwe

Communication and Advocacy Officer

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wamala

Wamala Edgar

Technology and Innovation Officer

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