Funders & grants

Fund the light reaching further.

Lumi turns a few dollars a month into an always-on tutor for a child who would otherwise have none. For foundations, grant-makers and CSR partners, that's an unusually high-leverage way to move the needle on learning at scale.

Why it matters

A solvable gap, at a fraction of the cost.

The need is vast — but so is the leverage. A single grant can put patient, personal guidance in front of learners who have never had it, on the devices schools already own, online or off.

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children of school age in sub-Saharan Africa are out of school.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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a month — the target cost of an always-on tutor for one learner.

Indicative unit-cost target at scale

What your support unlocks

Sponsor learners at scale — and see it.

Fund the mission and watch your impact in real numbers, not just stories.

Sponsor schools, regions or cohorts

Direct your support where it’s needed most — a single class, a district, or an entire region.

A transparent, live impact dashboard

Follow reach and engagement as it happens — every sponsored learner, accounted for.

Co-designed pilots

We design each pilot with you around clear, measurable outcomes you care about.

Reach the hardest-to-serve

Offline-capable and low-cost by design, so support reaches classrooms others can’t.

Teacher-led, safe by design

Educators stay in control and children stay protected — the foundation of everything we build.

Local delivery

Built and run in Nairobi by AI Agents Plus, with African educators on the ground.

What your grant does

Turn a grant into tutors, classroom by classroom.

Concrete, costed ways to give — so you know exactly what your support puts in children’s hands.

$1,500

A classroom for a year

Gives an entire class — around 40 learners — their own patient tutor for a full school year, with teacher onboarding included.

$10,000

A school for a year

Brings Lumi to a whole school of roughly 300 learners, plus the teacher dashboard and support to make it stick.

$50,000+

A region or cohort

Sponsors thousands of learners across many schools, with a transparent dashboard tracking the impact of every dollar.

Figures are indicative, based on our ~$3-per-learner-per-month target; we confirm exact costs with every partner.

How we measure impact

Funded for outcomes, not just activity.

Our logic is simple: put a patient tutor in every learner’s hands (input), let them practise and ask freely with teacher oversight (activity), and watch understanding and confidence grow (outcome) — toward a generation that learns to think for itself (impact).

Reach & engagement

Learners reached, questions asked and time spent actively learning. We aim for active use 3+ times a week, 20+ engaged minutes a session.

Learning progress

Growth in understanding against a baseline, measured together with schools. Our target: a 15% gain in foundational skills within a school term.

Teacher confidence

How supported teachers feel, and where their time now goes. We target 80%+ of teachers reporting Lumi helps them reach struggling learners.

Every partner gets clear, regular reporting against the measures we agree together — real outcomes, not vanity metrics.

Aligned with the Global Goals

Your grant moves the needle on the SDGs.

Lumi maps directly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals many funders report against.

SDG 4

Quality education

Inclusive, equitable learning and lifelong opportunity — the heart of what Lumi exists to deliver.

SDG 10

Reduced inequalities

Patient, personal tutoring for the learners with least access to it — narrowing the opportunity gap.

SDG 8

Decent work & growth

Stronger foundational skills today are the basis for opportunity and livelihoods tomorrow.

How partnership works

From first call to measured impact.

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Scope & co-design

We agree the learners you want to reach and the outcomes that matter, then design a pilot around them.

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Pilot & measure

Lumi goes live in real classrooms. You see engagement and progress on a transparent dashboard.

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Scale & report

What works, we grow — to more schools, regions and cohorts — with clear reporting throughout.

What we’re seeking

Grants and partners ready to back the work.

We’re seeking grants from $25,000 to $250,000+ and multi-year partnerships to fund classroom and school pilots and scale what works across regions. Around 80% of every grant goes directly to delivery — running Lumi, teacher onboarding and support — with the rest funding measurement and operations. Partners receive reporting every term and a full impact report each year.

We welcome conversations with foundations, multilaterals, CSR teams and individual philanthropists. If the mission resonates, let’s talk.

Become a partner

Your support, a child’s tutor.

Tell us who you’d like to reach and we’ll come back with a concrete, measurable way to get there.