Through scholarships and institutional support, we partner with Congolese universities to grow—and retain—the  “human capital”  needed for DRC to develop its potential as a leader in Africa and as a politically stable global partner.

This year women make up 30% of first-year students enrolled in UPC’s computer science department (Faculté des Sciences Informatiques). A new Education Congo “named fund” will soon start providing annual tuition scholarships to women studying computer science. Additional “named funds” provide tuition scholarships to women in other fields.

Our work

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
            ­—Helen Keller

With close and even multi-generational connections to the Congo, Education Congo currently provides scholarships to students at two leading Congolese universities. We plan to partner with more Congolese universities in the future.

In addition to a robust scholarship program, we provide institutional support and facilitate the development of relationships between our Congolese partner universities and Western universities.  

“Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest
of the world.”
     ­—Nadeem Aslam

Global benefits to all of us—Building a stronger and more politically stable and independent  Congo through higher education is vitally important to all of us on the planet. 

Congo’s technology minerals are essential to the technologies we currently depend on and to our transition to greener energy.

Congo is environmentally important to all of us as well. It contains most of the 2nd largest rainforest in the world and the world’s large peatland. 

It is dramatically less expensive for us to educate Congolese students in their own country than abroad!

Compared to what we pay for college in the United States, the cost of tuition in DRC seems like a bargain! 

But with 80% of Congolese people earning less than US$600 per year, the cost of higher education is actually quite prohibitive. Yet higher education is what is most needed to produce more teachers, more business people, more doctors, more computer science professionals…

The key to retaining talent in DRC
What’s more, when students stay in Congo for their education, chances are greater that graduates will stay there—where they are needed.