For more than 30 years we have supported learners, schools and communities to realise their right to quality education. External evidence shows we consistently improve learning outcomes, reduce school drop-out rates, expand access for more young people, and enhance learners’ wellbeing.
During 2023-2024
131,713
learners supported
259
schools and learning centres reached
16,422
community members engaged
6,666
teachers and school leaders trained
To learn more about how we’ve transformed lives through learning, explore our project reports here.
Our accolades
- Selected as one of HundrED’s most impactful and scalable educational innovations 2025 for our work embedding Social Emotional Learning in Ethiopian schools
- Our COVID response in Malawi was featured in INEE Journal on Education in Emergencies in 2023
- Featured in the University of Bath’s policy brief on language and education in 2022
- Girls’ Education Challenge brief on community-based structures features our work in Ethiopia and Malawi, 2021
- Shortlisted and received an honourable mention from the HundrED in 2021
- Awarded a prize in 2021 from the South Ethiopia Regional Education Bureau in special recognition of our work in Ethiopia
- Our Malawi school improvement work was featured as a case study in IIEP’s “Information and Transparency” publication in 2019
- Featured as a case study in UNESCO’s 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report
- School Review in Uganda was featured as a case study in WEF’s “Unleashing Greatness” paper in 2016
- Supported the Malawi government to develop the country’s first ever National Education Standards in 2015
88%
increase
in girls’ literacy in Ethiopian STAGES project
77%
improvement
in girls’ numeracy in non-formal setting in Malawi’s TEAM project
62,000
pastoralist children reached
in northern Uganda
460,070
learners benefited
from the South Ethiopia Regional government scaling of Link’s teacher training
They say if you give a man a fish, you feed him for one day. If you teach a man to fish you give him food for life, just like the project changed our lives forever. It brings change for a lifetime. They have given what cannot be lost, no one can take it away from us.
Female teacher, Ethiopia