Verified organisational impact
Real implementation milestones delivered through LEAP and our partnership with Freetown City Council — reported as cumulative institutional progress, not future targets.
Impact
The change we are built to make
We are already improving education systems across Freetown. This is what we have achieved, where our programmes are now, and what comes next — reported transparently, without overstatement.
Impact at a glance
- Achieved
- 1,580+ JSS students in LEAP
- Digitised
- 715,000+ attendance sessions
- Footprint
- 5 schools, 2 communities
- LEAP
- Phase 0 soft pilot, underway
- ConnectEd
- Pilot begins Sept 2026
- Rooted in
- Freetown, Sierra Leone
Impact
Two stories, told honestly: what we have achieved, and where we are now
Organisational impact and programme rollout are different things, and we never let them compete. Here is the verified progress our programmes and partnerships have already delivered — alongside a transparent view of what each programme is doing today, and what comes next.
Current programme rollout
LEAP is in its Phase 0 soft pilot; ConnectEd is in planning ahead of its 2026/27 pilot. We show implementation status — never a zero that misreads as “no impact”.
Verified impact
Already improving education systems across Freetown
These figures represent verified implementation milestones delivered through our programmes and partnerships. They are cumulative institutional progress — not future targets.
1,580+
JSS students integrated into LEAP
715,000+
Attendance sessions digitized
5
Schools engaged in the pilot
2
Slum communities reached
Figures are verified Kulea Hive programme figures, delivered through LEAP's Phase 0 soft pilot with Freetown City Council and our engagement across the pilot schools and communities. The wider municipal network — cited as 87 schools serving over 14,000 learners — is being confirmed against the live Freetown City Council register.
Where we are now
Current programme rollout
Two flagship programmes, at two different stages. We report status honestly: what each is doing today, what comes next, and the impact it relates to.
System transformation
Phase 0 underwayLEAP
- School onboarding
- Municipal engagement
- Platform deployment
- Administrative digitisation
- Baseline preparation
- Current phase
- Phase 0 (2025/26) · Build & soft pilot
- Expected timeline
- Phase 1 in the 2026/27 academic year
- Current focus
- An operational soft pilot with Freetown City Council across three municipal junior secondary schools — Murray Town (West), Fattah Rahman (Central) and Henry Fergusson (East) — running the p-Hive baseline with validated data and no data-entry burden on teachers.
- Next milestone
- Phase 1 (2026/27): a structured, evaluated pilot introducing offline-first mobile attendance capture.
- Related impact
- 1,580+ JSS students integrated · 715,000+ attendance sessions digitised · 3 municipal JSS across all three zones.
Foundational learning
In preparationConnectEd
- Community mobilisation
- Partner engagement
- Baseline design
- Tutor readiness
- Current phase
- Planning & preparation
- Expected timeline
- Pilot begins Term 1, 2026/27 (September 2026)
- Current focus
- Community mobilisation and partner engagement in Kroo Bay and Mabella — enrolment, baseline and diagnostic design, and tutor readiness ahead of the first eight-week cycle.
- Next milestone
- The first pilot cycle: an eight-week, phone-based foundational-numeracy programme.
- Related impact
- Planned pilot cohort of 300 learners across Kroo Bay and Mabella — the pilot has not yet begun, so no learners are enrolled today.
What comes next
The journey from idea to scale
Every Kulea Hive programme moves through the same deliberate, evidence-led stages. Here is where each one sits today.
Conception
The idea, the evidence gap, and the programme design.
Planning
Partners, schools, baseline and readiness put in place before delivery.
- ConnectEd · now
Pilot
The first delivery cycle, run and observed at small scale.
- LEAP · now
Evaluation
Structured, credible evidence of whether the model works.
Scale
Wider rollout across schools, zones and, in time, regions.
What We Measure
Six things we watch, so effort turns into change
Our programmes share one results logic: strong delivery leads to earlier support, which leads to better learning and stronger institutions. We measure at each step, not only at the end.
Do children learn more
Whether children read, count and reason better, and how far each learner moves along the learning ladder, disaggregated by class, gender and community.
Is the model delivered as designed
Whether the non-negotiable core holds: the checkpoint-and-retarget loop in ConnectEd, and the validate-and-lock lifecycle in LEAP.
Do people take part
Caregiver and community engagement, call completion, and whether the people closest to the learner are active partners in learning.
Does data become action
Whether validated information turns into timely, coordinated support within the term, rather than a report after it.
Who is reached
Whether the least-served learners are reached first, tracked by gender, income and geography, so fairness is measured, not assumed.
Do systems get stronger
Whether public institutions govern with better information and grow more capable and accountable over time.
Evidence before scale
We do not publish results before they exist. Figures will appear here as our pilots generate them, each one attributed to its source. Until then, this section explains how success will be judged, not what has been proven.
Communities We Serve
Freetown first, and the learners the system reaches last
Our work begins where the need is sharpest: in Freetown's underserved communities and municipal schools. We stay close, deliberately, before we grow.
Kroo Bay and Mabella
Two of Freetown's most densely populated informal settlements, where ConnectEd serves lower-primary learners and the caregivers who support them at home.
FCC municipal schools
Freetown City Council's municipal school network across the East, West and Central zones, where LEAP strengthens how the city governs education. Phase 0 runs in three junior secondary schools, one per zone.
Learners
The reason the work exists, and the measure of whether it succeeds.
Caregivers and communities
Partners in learning, not bystanders, especially where time and literacy are scarce.
Teachers and school leaders
Supported and freed from administrative burden, so they can do the work only they can do.
Government and officials
The owners of lasting change, governing with better information.
Explore
The rest of Impact is taking shape
Four sections will grow alongside our programmes. Each already exists, with a clear purpose and an honest status.
Get involved
See where you fit
Impact is not a spectator sport. There is a role here for partners, funders, researchers and champions of foundational learning.