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The Kakuma Project unites teacher across 75 countries offering free quality education to African refugees.

Innovation Lab Schools

Our project involves our own 2 innovative Maggie schools and 4 educational programs : skype interactions with students globally, teacher training, coding classes and learning on demand via video lessons.

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Kakuma Refugee Camp

Kakuma refugee camp houses 196,000 refugees who fled from war and hunger in in neighboring countries like Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia,… The camp has 24 schools and 645 teachers of whom 67% were not trained at all.

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Your donation matters!

To keep our program and school running, we need funds. Donations will go straight to the refugees. With your support, we will be able to educate more children, fight polarisation and employ refugees,…

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How it all started

5 years ago Koen Timmers, a teacher from Belgium, started to teach refugees via Skype. He shipped his own laptop and an internet connection to the Kakuma Refugee Camp.

Watch Koen Timmers’s TEDx and learn how the model of Project Kakuma led to several global projects with more than 2.7m participating students and teachers across the world.

Our Goals by 2025

+ 5.000

people coding

+ 5.00

certified teachers

+ 200.000

global project participants

grade 4 + 8

video lessons covered



Endorsed by

Education is a fundamental human right. It is an essential tool to build a just, equal and peaceful society in which nobody is left behind.

Princess Esmeralda of Belgium

 I am a strong believer in the creativity of young people and have witnessed what tremendous power is possible when youthful creativity and passion is harnessed to better the world around us.

Charlize TheronActress

I applaud the work of the Kakuma Project to offer free education online. This so important in the quest to achieve education for all.

Helen ClarkFormer Prime Minister of New Zealand
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Recognitions

  • Featured in the 2020 World Economic Forum

    Being listed as one of the 16 school globally defining the future of education Project was featured in the 2020 World Economic Forum – Schools of the Future report.

  • The Kakuma project was a finalist of the 2018 UNESCO prize for innovation in education.
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