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We strive to nurture Learners with creative ability to their full potential to be creators, problem solvers and leaders, for a better world.
Northern Uganda, especially the Acholi sub-region, recovering from over two decades of conflict, faces a huge education crisis. The current traditional education system falls short of nurturing the human resources with the skill sets, values, and exposure required to meet the needs of this dynamic recovering society. Currently, the region experiences an 80% unemployment rate and a 67% poverty rate, according to UNPA (2022). As Wokober, we believe that for society to emerge from this deep pit, we need a generation of Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders who are well-exposed, empowered, and anchored in core values, to not only thrive in this dynamic world but, more importantly, to directly participate in uplifting and accelerating the growth of their communities. That's why we are pioneering the Wokober Learning Approach, an alternative creative learning approach that leverages the uncultivated uniqueness of toy-making, aimed at nurturing creativity, innovation, self-development, and leadership.
Team behind Wokober
Ben Wokorach
Kagga Paul
Opiyo Morris
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This journey of discovery and mentorship of a generation of innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders to uplift the society of Northern Uganda and beyond, needs as many hands as possible in efforts to multiply the current impact of our programs on the lives of the children and communities.
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Our Projects
What we have
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Toy Making & Innovation Festival 2023
15-16 Dec, 2023 Kaunda Grounds, Gulu City.A competitive event, aimed at promoting creativity, innovation and technology exploration within the communities.
Mentorship Programme 2023
Jan - Dec 2023 Wokober Facility, Gulu City.A project based learning program that starts with study tours to expose the learners to di erent spheres of creativity, global trends in innovation, processes, tools, technology and many others.
Toy Making & Innovation Festival 2022
16 Dec, 2022 Elephante Commons, Gulu City.This a competitive event, aimed at promoting creativity, innovation and technology exploration within the communities.
Featured Project
Toy Making & Innovation Festival 2023
The Wokober Toy & Innovation Festival 2023, was the second of its kind. It was a competitive event, aimed at promoting creativity, innovation and technology exploration within the communities. During the event 30-50 children who exhibit brilliance, potential and passion are identi ed and awarded in three categories (3-7, 8-12 and 13-17 years).
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Mentorship Programme 2023
This is a project based 1 year learning program that starts with study tours to expose the learners to di erent spheres of creativity, global trends in innovation, processes, tools, technology and many others. The study tours is followed by series of personal projects selected by the learners that nurtures imagination, critical thinking, practical exploration, real world application and self-development.
Featured Cause
Pavilion Design Competition 2023
This is a project design competition where pavilion designs are submitted in by different architect individuals or team of indiviuals. The pavillion is an important integral part of the festival experience and winning design is implemented. The team that won the design competition worked with Wokober team and other fabricators to fabricate/build and set up the pavilion.
What they are talking about Us
We are proud to have impacted many individual's live , and we are grateful for their stories. Read on to hear about their experience with Wokober.
all testimonials
AMB. DR. OLARA A. OTUNNU
Ben the Founder, told me about this Program and the vision. I encouraged him and his colleagues to keep working on it. I was really delighted to see that it has been launched. In a way it is also recalling the heritage which was always there, but most of it is dying because when we were growing up, this was common place. Everywhere, in the villages, in the town’s kids make toys, cars, train etc. I am full of admiration for this efforts, I recommend it very strongly and shall do anything I can to humbly support.
Benard Acellam
Being one of the jurors at the 2022 Toy Festival gave me a special opportunity to see great talent being exhibited. The children who participated were full of interest, curiosity and energy which deserves to be nurtured and supported. I saw future product designers, architects, interior designers and artists and creators who will re-define the Ugandan and African story.
Oringa Jimmy
I had never been a volunteer or participant in any event like the Toy Festival beore. So, I was a rookie bursting with energy and excitement about the uniqueness of the toy festival concept and I wanted to identify with the ingenuity that the festival exudes. What I loved about the toy festival from the start was the faith that every single member of the team had in the festival. Everyone had the conviction that the idea was a brilliant one and committed themselves relentlessly to ensure the event was a successful one. I have learned that you may not have all the money in the world to pull off an event but leveraging the power of friends who can support your idea and make it come true is a game changer.
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