Ejoka? Ejok.
Are you good? I am good.
In Karamoja, Uganda, fewer than 1% of girls complete high school. Ejoka Education mentors this small cohort into future leaders: through university, into careers, and into independent lives they chose for themselves.
They are educated enough to no longer fit into their communities, and not yet credentialed enough to build independent lives. This is the gap Ejoka Education exists to close.
The gap no one is funding
"She was not a failure. The system failed her."
— Dr. Jacqueline Gallo, on finding one of her research subjects six years later
Three ways we close it
Scholars Network
A mentoring pipeline from high school graduation through university into a paying job. Personal attention. Dependable, long-term support.
PHASE 1
Export Ecosystem
Karamojong makers, artisans, beaders, honey producers, connected to real global markets, built with Matany Girls' Vocational School.
PHASE 2
Community Center
A permanent home in Karamoja for job training, teacher development, and cultural life. Built to outlast any single funding cycle.
PHASE 3
Meet the founder
I spent nearly two years in Karamoja following sixteen girls through the end of secondary school for my doctoral research at University of Cambridge. In 2024, I went back to see what had become of their lives. What I found is why Ejoka Education exists.
The founding campaign
Ejoka Education is being built right now, in 2026. The first $500,000 registers the organization in both the US and Uganda and launches the first mentoring cohort. Every dollar given before March 2027 is a founding dollar.