EDU Africa was founded in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 2003, a few years after its founding members started exploring the idea of providing travel experiences in Africa that would benefit the community and environment.
The organization soon expanded and opened offices in Cape Town, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; and Arusha, Tanzania as the core leaders chose to live closer to the communities they were forming partnerships with.
EDU Africa initially served groups that visited the continent for non-profit and service-related reasons. Our offerings developed organically from there.
Today, our organization has become a specialist provider of life-changing educational programs and service learning experiences in Africa – for both groups and individuals. Many organizations and people who traveled with us from the beginning continue to do so today.
Barry Rawlings, Managing Director & Southern Africa (Central) Director, explains why our offering is so unique:
"We understand education. We aren’t a tour operator putting an educational spin on what we do, we are genuine educationalists and appreciate outcomes, curriculum, and pedagogy."
He adds that EDU Africa is committed to keeping pace with developments in education on a global scale.
“We understand that education around the world is undergoing a revolution and will look quite different just a few short years from now. We are pushing our programs to increasingly be in step with the global competencies that will be required for the world of tomorrow."
"I believe more strongly every day that Africa, in its richness, is the perfect canvas against which to learn about culture, worldview, and some of the planet’s great challenges.”
We are extremely excited about what the future holds for our continent, our communities and each and every person that places their feet on African soil.
Thank you for being part of our story.
May we continue to change lives in and through Africa together.
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