What membership gives a school
A school joins once, and is then visible to everyone looking for schools to support, to partner with, or to learn from. Membership is open to primary, secondary and technical schools across Africa, and to schools of the African diaspora — the Caribbean included.
A place in the directory
A profile every member can find: where the school is, how many pupils, what it teaches, what it needs and what it can offer. Searchable by country, level and need.
Patrons and godfathers
Individuals, companies, churches and alumni anywhere in the world can take on a member school: fees, equipment, a library, a lab, or a year of connectivity.
Mentors for pupils
Professionals and academics register as mentors and are matched to schools by subject — engineering, medicine, coding, agriculture, business, the trades.
Networks between schools
Follow another school, join a network by country or subject, share what worked, and run things together — exchanges, competitions, joint funding applications.
A door to the Foundation
Member schools are the schools TINFO Foundation works through: scholarships, computer labs, digital projects, competitions and awards reach the alliance first.
Free to enrol
Enrolling costs nothing, and an enrolled school is eligible for every grant, scholarship and hackathon the Foundation runs. Connecting to the other schools — the network itself — starts at $100 a year.
ENROL NOWSome web pages we collaborate in building
Most schools on the list have no website at all, and a school without one is invisible to a funder looking for it. The Foundation builds and hosts a page for eligible schools that ask. These are live.
For eligible schools, at no charge, and the school owns what we build. To see more, become a member — and partner with the schools.
BECOME A MEMBER PARTNER WITH THE SCHOOLSEvery enrolled school, findable
Search by region, country, pathway or name. The public list gives a school’s name and country; heads, contacts, needs and the rest of what we hold are released to signed-in members, so the alliance’s work is not handed to the whole internet.
Heads, contacts, pupil numbers and a school’s stated needs are shown to signed-in members. Join the alliance to see them.
Take on a school, from wherever you are
A patron backs a member school with what it needs. A godfather commits for longer — a class through to graduation, a lab kept running, a scholarship renewed each year. A mentor gives time instead of money: a subject, an hour a month, a career a pupil had not imagined.
You register once, say what you can offer and where, and the alliance matches you to schools that asked for exactly that.
REGISTER AS A PATRONOne-off or occasional support, for a named school or wherever it is needed most.
A standing commitment to one school, reported on each term, renewable each year.
Time and expertise by subject, online or in person, matched to a school that asked.
Universities, companies, NGOs and diaspora associations working across many schools at once.
Schools that follow each other go further
Inside the alliance a school has a feed, not a form. It posts what it is doing, follows schools it wants to learn from, joins networks by country or subject, and is notified when a school it follows opens something it could join.
Follow a school
See what another member is doing and be told when they post. No approval needed.
Join a network
By country, by region, by subject, or by a shared project. A school may be in many.
Post and be found
Results, a new lab, a competition win, a need. Patrons read these when choosing a school.
Work together
Exchanges, shared teachers, joint applications, inter-school competitions.
Four steps, and no fee
Register the school
The head teacher or an authorised member of staff fills in the form below.
We verify it
A short call or email with the school, so the directory holds real institutions only.
The profile goes live
The school appears in the directory and can be found by patrons, mentors and other schools.
Start working
Follow schools, join networks, receive matches, and reach Foundation programmes first.
Enrolling is free. The network is what you pay for.
Any school may enrol at no cost, and every enrolled school can take part in the grants, scholarships, hackathons and awards that run through the Foundation. Membership buys one thing: being connected to the other schools — their profiles, their networks, and the patrons who read them. A year at a time, in US dollars.
To join the network
OptionalA school that cannot meet the fee should write to us rather than stay outside the alliance — [email protected]. No school is turned away for want of a hundred dollars.
Enrol a school, join the alliance, or support a school
AfricaSDA is how the Foundation reaches schools
TINFO Foundation was established in honour and memory of Titus Ntungwen Fomuso, 1939–2017, to advance educational opportunity, digital inclusion and innovation across Africa. Its scholarships, computer labs, digital projects, conferences, competitions and awards run through the alliance — so a school that joins here is in line for all of them.