Indiegogo Campaign Launch date: 31/10/2018
Meerkats Academy™ is a free educational website that provides high level education for free to all school students in Africa and worldwide. We provide our lessons in the form of recorded video lessons, we also provide reading materials in our large digital library. Our qualified and highly trained teachers make learning enjoyable, help students to think, and support their learning strongly. Through this unique online educational platform you will learn and enjoy learning, understand fully the school topics taught in your country and through our channel you will gain knowledge of the theoretical and practical understanding of all subjects. Join now and let your friends know about our program and be part of our expanding social media network.
Our Mission
1. Our mission is to provide all students with a comprehensive understanding of today’s world using the existing education systems and curriculum.
2. To support all students by giving them excellent education worldwide.
3. To support parents financially by encouraging them to get their children to study here to save money instead of paying for private lessons and private schools.
4. To provide one of a kind online school like no other in terms of quality and coverage.
5. To make learning enjoyable, help students to think, innovate and get creative.
Our Vision
1. Meerkats Academy is here to grow a community not a business. We want to make Africa great again.
2. Our vision is to make education available to everyone through the internet and outside the physical boundaries of schools.
3. We believe that it is time for a different type of an educational revolution worldwide. Our online platform we think is an example of how schools should be like in the future.
4. We believe that distant education should not only be available for tertiary students but also should be available for school students.
5. We want education to spread equally to every student worldwide regardless of their various backgrounds and economic status of people.
6. We are against the idea of private schools and open competitions amongst schools.
7. We are against the idea of giving exams for students and we like to replace exams by research assignments. We believe that the teachers should be learning from students and students should be learning from teachers, hence we think the research assignments should take over the exams. However, we believe exams should remain for mathematics and some topics that requires solving problems.
8. Our future vision is to make students free to learn at their convenience and our role is to protect their motivation to learn.
Meerkats Academy provides educational services for:
1. High Schools Students Worldwide
2. Primary School Students Worldwide (will be under progress mid 2018)
3. Homeschooling students Worldwide
4. Teachers (for planning lessons)
5. Adults who did not complete schools back when they were young and want to study and compensate for their lack of education.
6. Disabled students in disability schools and children hospitals Worldwide
7. Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders, and disadvantaged groups in conflict zones
8. Limited but comprehensive support for Tertiary Students to cover difficult topics in Engineering and accounting.
9. People of the community (short courses)
10. Students under other special circumstances
Our Role
We are working on this program to make full scale online school to support and provide this free service to any student who needs a competitive advantage at school. This website we aim to also become a primary/ main option for those who do not attend schools due to distance, health issues, or to support some schools that do not have enough teachers. We offer the best education and all our packages are
free of charge.
· We are focusing on growing a community not a business
· We work to fulfill your educational needs
· Meerkats Academy is about teamwork
· We believe in generosity and quality of learning.
We believe in Human Right to Education which include:
- Individual rights
- Aims of Education
- Dignity
- Equity
- Non-Discrimination
- Community Participation.
The learning environment that we provide supports the full academic, social and emotional development for every student. We make learning relevant to the modern world by keeping the content transparent, practical, dynamic and comprehensive. We teach all students how to think right and how to make the best decisions.
How Meerkats Academy is designed and what students will learn and why?
Meerkats Academy is designed to be a critical support for students and an educational tool that is free from external forces that aim to dictate on schools what and what not to teach. we choose to have balanced criteria and acceptable outcomes to everyone equally. We are completely independent and we teach based on the resources we have. However, we follow each curriculum/ syllabus accurately to deliver our lessons purified from any external influence. Our lesson plans are in accordance with what is outlined in each curriculum and based on the teacher’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Our students learn the full capacity of any given curriculum and nothing short of satisfaction. We follow good teaching methods and our strategy of teaching is certainly effective.
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”. Kofi Annan; UN Secretary-General 1996-2006.
Our Forums
We have a large social Network:
Internally: our quality made forums are available for our students, register with us to view the forums. In these forums our students can communicate directly with our teachers and other students. These forums allow students to create threads, posts, comment back to other posts and share their knowledge and understanding. There are also reading materials written by our teachers available to view and download; still under development.
Externally: Meerkats Academy pages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+.
Meerkats Digital Library
We are in the process of expanding our digital library, feel free to access it and enjoy its content.