Made in Cameroon, for Cameroonian Education
Every child’s growth,
written down,
verified, carried.
A diploma is a single snapshot taken under exam pressure. Uweza builds something more honest — a Capability Passport that grows with a child from their first lesson to their first job, showing not just what they scored, but how they think.
The real problem
It isn’t a shortage of jobs. It’s a shortage of proof.
Cameroonian education is often heavily theoretical. Graduates reach interviews unable to demonstrate the practical problem-solving employers actually look for — because nothing in their schooling ever recorded it.
65%
underemployment
among Cameroonians aged 18–35, who make up over half the national labour force.
87%
informal employment
of all jobs in Cameroon sit outside the formal economy — with no paper trail of ability.
1 in 4
graduates jobless
more than a quarter of university graduates cannot find formal work, despite the diploma.
This is who we build for
Real classrooms. Real learners.
Children at a school in Cameroon
Pupils gathered outside their classroom in Cameroon
Students at a school in Cameroon
Children at school in Cameroon
Photos: Uweza, Category:Cameroon — shared with permission.
The Capability Passport
Not a CV. Not a grade. A living record of how a child actually thinks.
A CV is a claim. A grade is a single snapshot taken under exam pressure. Neither shows how a student reasons, struggles, or rebuilds after a wrong turn.
The Capability Passport is different: a cryptographically verified, QR-shareable record, built session by session, that any employer, scholarship board, or university can check — and trust.
It travels with the student even when formal schooling can’t: through a family emergency, a move, a season out of the classroom. All it needs is the phone number the student signed up with.
It also travels between Cameroon’s two subsystems: whether a student is on the Anglophone track (Form 1 to Upper Sixth) or the Francophone track (6ème to Terminale), the same verified record follows them.
Caregiver-guided sessions build the first pages — counting cocoa pods, naming colours, finding words.
Parent-verified progress across both subsystems. Every reasoning step, every recovered mistake, adds a verified entry.
GCE A-Level or Baccalauréat track — career-linked checks build depth right as exams and university applications approach.
Socratic, career-linked mastery checks build a record employers can actually trust.
The Passport speaks for the graduate before an employer or scholarship panel — evidence, not a claim.
— and the loop continues: that first job seeds entrepreneurship, and verification fees help subsidise access for the next Early Learner.
A mastery conversation · spoken in Bafut
Student explains why the plant in the dark corner is leaning toward the window.
Amara: Good instinct — but walk me through it again. What is the plant actually chasing?
Student revises: it’s reaching for light, not warmth.
Amara: There it is. That’s phototropism, and you found it yourself. Let’s see it happen — watch the stem.
Meet Amara
An African tutor who won’t move on until real understanding shows up.
Amara advances a student only once they can explain their reasoning back to her in conversation — not once they’ve guessed the right multiple-choice letter. She teaches through animated explainers, Socratic questioning, and caregiver-mediated sessions for the youngest learners.
She builds understanding in the language a household actually speaks — Ewondo, Bafut, Fulfulde, Duala — eventually teaching a child in the language they think in, while quietly helping preserve it.
Every part of the experience, including how Amara judges mastery, works through spoken conversation. A student who speaks their answer earns exactly the same Passport entry as one who typed it.
How it feels, not how it works
Every detail was chosen for the Cameroonian child, by people who’ve lived through the system.
Draw, diagram, map
Canvas
A student sketches a working diagram or marks up a map of Cameroon’s ten regions — real coordinates, not a rough outline — right alongside the lesson.
Woven through every lessonBuilt, not streamed
Sound
Lesson music is composed on the student’s own device from a tiny set of instructions, starting from original makossa, bikutsi, and assiko patterns — so it loads instantly on a slow connection.
Woven through every lessonPhysics, chemistry, code, history
Labs
A pendulum swings, a titration turns colour, a line of code passes its tests — real simulations checked against the textbook answer, not animations pretending to be one.
Woven through every lessonCocoa pods, not apples
Early Years
The youngest learners count kola nuts, plantains, and CFA coins — things a Cameroonian child already recognises — shown as countable dots with gentle audio feedback.
Woven through every lessonFor richer narration
Sensory detail
Every scene carries a sound, a smell, a texture — not for hardware that plays them back today, but so Amara’s narration paints a fuller, more memorable picture right now.
Woven through every lessonBuilt in, not bolted on
Bilingual, offline
English and French from the ground up, reflecting Cameroon’s bilingual reality — and a lesson, once downloaded, keeps working with no signal at all.
Woven through every lessonWho it’s for
Built for the students the current system explains away.
Every learner, Early Years to Upper Sixth
Caregiver-mediated for the youngest, audio and large text for primary, Socratic and career-linked for secondary and university.
Girls who leave school early
Family circumstances can interrupt schooling, but the Passport keeps the verified record of ability intact — especially in fields like IT and engineering.
Learners with disabilities
Voice-first, audio-native teaching and assessment gives every student the same quality of record, however they answer.
Refugee and displaced students
Cameroon hosts over 431,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, and close to a million people displaced within the country. All the Passport needs is a phone number — not continuous enrolment at one school.
Young job-seekers, 18–35
In a labour market where 87% of employment is informal, demonstrable, verifiable proof of practical capability is what actually opens doors.
Pricing
Priced by learner stage, in the currency families actually use.
Monthly, per learner, in XAF. No bank account or card needed to sign up — just a phone number.
Caregiver-guided
Early Learners
2,000XAF / month
Counting, letters, and colours through play — with a caregiver alongside every session.
Ask about this tierParent-verified
Form 1 – Form 5
3,000XAF / month
Full subject coverage with Amara, checks, and a Passport that starts filling in.
Ask about this tierLower & Upper Sixth
High School
5,000XAF / month
Labs, career-linked checks, and exam-facing depth as university gets closer.
Ask about this tierStudents & job-seekers
University
10,000XAF / month
Full Passport verification tools, aimed squarely at the job and scholarship market.
Ask about this tierInstitutional licensing
Schools & ministries
Bulk licensing at 10,000 XAF per student per month, plus Capability Passport verification for institutions that want to check what a candidate can actually do.
Who’s building it
A small Cameroonian-founded team.
Mbifanse Milton-Keyness Vuchi
Founder
A Mastercard Foundation Scholar and African Leadership Academy alumnus, and a graduate of AUI in International Relations and Quantitative Studies. Nine years designing offline-first, edge-AI systems for low-connectivity environments — precision farming, circular resource systems, resilient AI workflows.
Favour Amourzang Fri Fon
Co-founder
An Ashesi University Computer Science student and Mastercard Foundation Scholar whose work spans EdTech, healthcare, and AgriTech. Spent a semester at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology through a Mastercard Foundation exchange. Brings a design-thinking approach to translating research into product strategy.
Leinyuy Raissa
Co-founder
A master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, studying Entrepreneurship, Business, and Policy, building on a foundation in Computer Science from the African Leadership University. Her experience spans user research, product testing, and human-centered product development, with a passion for using technology to advance inclusive innovation, women’s empowerment, and sustainable development.
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