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Building Tomorrow is committed to community-powered learning, and CEVs are our conduit to sustainable community engagement. Our mobilization starts with Fellows, recent Ugandan university graduates whom we deploy to underserved rural areas, and it was our first cohort of Fellows in 2015 who identified the need to leverage members within the community as allies in raising support for education.
CEVs are recruited based on their passion for education, range from retired civil servants to farmers, and are vetted by local authorities. CEVs with an O-Level education are considered Academic CEVs, and are eligible to be trained to deliver Building Tomorrow’s Roots to Rise literacy and numeracy camps. Other CEVs are considered Life Skill CEVs and focus on reaching out-of-school children.
Fellows have recruited >14,000 CEVs, who donated 559,070 hours in 2023 alone. A randomized controlled trial showed CEVs were able to deliver learning gains equivalent to 1.1 Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling through 160 minutes of individualized instruction, leading us to elevate them further in our model. CEVs now facilitate nearly 2/3 of Roots to Rise, and reached 120,000 learners in 2023.
Building Tomorrow hopes CEVs can gain the traction and reach of Community Health Workers in the health space, and welcomes organizations delivering similar community-powered initiatives or looking to add CEVs to their context to reach out to info@buildingtomorrow.org to join forces and share best practices.
