Kulea Hive
CONNECT-ED CHALLENGE; SIERRA LEONE
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
ConnectEd Education Program
Learn more about the ConnectEd Challenge and how a high-access, low-cost phone-based innovation can deliver remedial education to underserved primary-aged learners.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Kulea Hive designs and delivers evidence-based education solutions that strengthen education systems, empower communities, and improve learning outcomes for children, starting with the distribution of proven foundational-learning interventions to underserved learners.
Kulea Hive will pilot ConnectEd with 250 lower-primary learners across two municipal primary schools serving the Kroo Bay and Mabella urban slum communities of Freetown, Sierra Leone. ConnectEd combines weekly numeracy exercises delivered by SMS with targeted tutoring calls on ordinary mobile phones, with each learner assessed, taught at their current level, checked for mastery, and retargeted for the next session. The Tri-Connect model connects the school, community and home: schools anchor learner identification and curriculum alignment, locally recruited tutors and Community Learning Champions deliver and support the intervention, and caregivers reinforce learning at home. What sets them apart is their locally led, co-created approach, working with municipal government, schools, caregivers and communities to adapt a proven intervention to local realities while protecting the core elements that make it effective.
Kulea Hive was co-founded by Alpha Habib Bangura, Co-Founder & CEO, and Marion Cobna-Davies, Co-Founder & ConnectEd Program Manager. Alpha leads the organisation’s vision, strategy, partnerships and fundraising, while Marion leads ConnectEd delivery, including recruitment and training, field coordination, safeguarding and quality assurance. Together, they bring experience across education delivery, government engagement, foundational learning and community-centred programme implementation, with the pilot designed to build further local delivery capacity through a graduate internship and career-development model.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Reach 250 students during the pilot.
Distribute the ConnectEd intervention to 250 students.
Raise an additional $5,000.
FOUNDING TEAM
Alpha Habib Bangura - Co-Founder & CEO
Marion Cobna-Davies - Co-Founder & ConnectEd Program Manager