Our raison d'etre

• Education is critical for human capital development.

  By 2050

• Engineers have better employment opportunities and resource economies need skilled engineers.

• Only 2 physicians per 10,000 people. There is a shortage of 1.5 million skilled health workers in Africa.

• 1/4 of the world's working age population will be African - larger than China.

• Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest share of engineering graduates in the world.

• Africa has the lowest physician-to-population ratio in the world.