Our Impact
Yiya uses experiential STEM lessons to leverage the resilience of young people in Uganda and to increase their creativity in problem solving!
We believe that access to education is a human right and we are committed to providing equitable access to our STEM content, for ALL young people regardless of their living circumstances, family income, or geographic location.
Our impact data is collected through baseline and endline surveys that we remotely conduct via USSD on at least 5,000 active users in every course!
We ask additional questions to targeted groups via the USSD through the duration of the course, and conduct follow-on interviews with individuals that fall into specific groups identified through the surveys and by populations, to obtain more detailed qualitative data and identify the areas of most meaningful impact.
Annual Reports
Participating in just one Yiya AirScence STEM course, students gain:
Impact stories
Practical life skills
Using the engineering design process to creatively solve problems in their local communities.
Hands-on Technical skills
Applying science and math to create technologies. Yiya students have created technologies such as hand sanitizers, organic pesticides, bicycle powered phone chargers.
Practical business skills
Using the technologies they create during our courses to start a business.
Alaba is a total orphan who lives with her grandmother a few miles away from town.
She left school and didn't have any hope of learning again,when she heard about yiya airscience, she gave her time and also bought a notebook strictly for yiya program
Her grandmother has been soo supportive in her learning financially and spiritually as a senior citizen.
She lacked some materials and later on the field team took to her what she had requested inorder to complete creating her technology
Jackie is a Yiya AirScience student from Lira district in northern Uganda. Prior to COVID-19, Jackie was a top student who loved science, and was about to finish O Level (middle school). During the lockdown, however, she became pregnant and was told she would not be allowed to return to school once they reopened, which was devastating for her and her parents. But a caring teacher introduced her to the Yiya AirScience program and she tuned into every lesson! She received a prize for the most correct answers on quizzes for the month of October. Her prize was a materials kit to build the second prototype of her solar food dryer!
Rebecca is one of the most active Yiya Airsciecne students in Course 3. Despite being an expectant mother due this month, Rebecca persevered and created a pedal-powered machine and homemade detergent that she proudly showcased at the event. Her determination and commitment to the program were commendable, and she was recognized as the best youth innovator in the showcase, further highlighting her exceptional talents and skills.
"Yiya AirScience has helped me to acquire skills on how to build the solar food dryer and how it works. I now know how to build a solar food dryer. I used to participate in the program by answering the questions via USSD code. I always get immediate feedback, when using it, I was congratulated for a question I answered correctly. I made my solar food dryer and started using it straight away by drying my fruits and vegetables. I have told more people to join the program since I wouldn 't wish to benefit alone as I continue to supply vegetables to people."
- Brenda from Purongo, Nwoya district Northern Uganda
Our learning app collects detailed data analytics which we use to respond flexibly and quickly to user needs!
After a little more than a year in operation, the Yiya AirScience app is just on the cusp of reaching 80,000 youth in Uganda!
Yiya AirScience Course Enrollments
