As we continue to celebrate ten years of the Educate! Experience, we want to highlight the dedicated staff who have allowed Educate! to reach this milestone and those who are working to prepare Educate! for its next decade of impact. Today, we are excited to spotlight Educate!’s Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Meghan Mahoney.

Over the past ten years, I’ve been proud to design and direct the implementation of our programs in schools in East Africa. 2019 marks an exceptional milestone for our team – a decade of operating our flagship Educate! Experience program in schools across Uganda. Taking this opportunity to reflect my own journey with Educate!, I’ve identified a few key lessons that have informed my personal approach to design.

2019 is an important milestone for the entire Educate! family, but it is especially significant for those team members who have been here from the start. To reflect on this journey, we caught up with Connie Mpirirwe, who joined the team more than ten years ago as one of Educate!’s first Mentors.