🎆The Vision

Number One

Charities save the lives of millions every year and alleviate the suffering of many more. But as the size of the organisations grows, their control weakens and the risk of waste and inefficiency grows.

Though temporary relief is important, it fails to achieve transformative and long-lasting impact.

This is why we focus on upskilling, targeting high-return work within software engineering. This has the potential of outsized impact as it means we bring the required tech skills to start to form a high value-add export industry, bringing in money to the country which is then used to stimulate domestic consumption.

This is why exports are considered one of the most important elements for long-term economic growth and large-scale improvements in quality of life.

We're going for Number One.

Vision for 2025

By 2025, we hope to be able to confidently state that our programme has raised the estimated lifetime earnings by $40M.

To reach this goal, 5000 students will enrol in our 1-week Introductory Course and more than 1000 students will take part in our Coding Bootcamp.

Verify, Don't Trust

But don't take our word for it. Check for yourself, follow the progress of the students and trace the funds.

All ADA proceeds of the DirectEd Lions crowdfunding campaign will go to a multi-signature wallet controlled by known public figures with a proven long-standing commitment to the Cardano lockchain ecosystem. A super-majority must approve any withdrawal from this multi-signature wallet. Their role is to hold the executive team at DirectEd accountable in regard to the use of the funds vis-a-vis the donors.

This was first done during the Kenya bootcamp fundraiser and you can inspect the multi-sig using the ADAhandles: $kagumohigh and $maryhill. You can learn about the multi-sig members from the past pilot in the multi-sig governance documentation.

The DirectEd treasury is transparently available to audit through the ADAhandle $directeddev on any Cardano blockchain explorer.

In the long run, our claims of impact will be rigorously evaluated by independent academic researchers.