Our Mission Statement

Founded in 1997, Growth Through Learning (GTL) is a secular organization that supports education and development in East Africa by providing full secondary education scholarships for exceptional young women in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania who would otherwise be unable to afford an education beyond primary school. GTL encourages cross-cultural exchange of information and ideas, especially promoting women’s empowerment in East Africa.

Our Vision

A world where all women receive the education they need to realize their own potential and fulfill their aspirations for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Our Impact across three
countries.

2129

Awarded Scholarships in the Last 6 Years

2155

High School Diplomas since 1998

15

Schools Within The Program

How we do this

A GTL scholarship award include all costs; tuition, uniform, exam fees, school supplies, room and board at a safe, consistent and educationally vigorous school.

We do this because in rural areas, there are still heavy struggles as parents with lower incomes struggle with saving enough funds for uniforms or exam fees.

    For the girl child;
  • often forced to leave school to support parents or siblings, expected to marry through involuntary marriages, bear children at a young age.
  • susceptible to higher rates of HIV/Aids infection 6 times higher than that of men in some areas.

Educators and Development Professionals recommend that keeping young girls and young women longer in school is an effective way to protect them from early marriages, pregnancies, rape and physical abuse.

Over the past 20 years, citizens and governments in East Africa have made it a priority to educate young children and efforts to achieve gender parity in education have been successful.

Education for all Global Monitoring Report 2015

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We believe that East Africa can build on successes and improve access to schools that have seen primary school age children, out of school, decrease from 32% to 8% between 2002 and 2011. We work to support girls go beyond primary school and make sure that those successes reach girls in most underserved regions in rural areas.
Growth Through Learning is a 501 (c) (3) Tax-Exempt Corporation
Tax ID 04-3372808
P.O. Box 390975 Cambridge, MA 02139
Email us: info@growththroughlearning.org