The investment will increase Akili Network's positive educational impact on African families and enable greater access and more local educational content.
The Rwanda Innovation Fund was officially launched in 2021 with the mission to back disruptive, innovative companies that deploy solutions to solve major sustainability challenges in Africa.
Akili Network produces and broadcasts educational entertainment that supports key developmental areas — from critical thinking skills and literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), while supporting creativity, imagination, social-emotional skills, as well as child resilience and protection. 95% of families report that their quality of life was very much improved from watching Akili Kids! TV.
Akili Kids! is the number one most watched TV channel in Kenya in households with kids under the age of 18, with weekly viewership of over 6.7 million children and 4.8 million grownups. It has disrupted the Kenyan TV landscape by focusing on 24/7 children's educational programming.
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Caroline Diehl is a serial social entrepreneur in the impact media space. She is Executive Chair and Founder of the UK’s only charitable and co-operatively owned national broadcast television channel Together TV, the leading broadcaster for social change runs a national TV channel in the UK and digital platform which helps people find inspiration to do good in their lives and communities.