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Innovation Hub

The Story Behind kambuzuma Innovation Hub

In March of 2021, we received the amazing news that our grant with the Australian Embassy in Zimbabwe was approved. We were officially going to build three new Innovation Hubs and, once again, double our impact.

Kambuzuma is a beautiful, low-income, high-density neighborhood not far from downtown Harare. We had the great fortune of partnering with an extremely well-kept school and our Innovation Hub is the perfect compliment! We are so excited to be working in Kambuzuma and can’t wait to see all of the amazing accomplishments made by the young adults in this community!

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The impact of this Innovation Hub on the Kambuzuma community will be wonderful. Over the next few years, not only will hundreds of unemployed young adults receive free technology training with the goal of full-time employment in the industry, but 1,000s of youths will receive free coding lessons as well.

In addition to sending our instructors into every school in the community, we look forward to providing our youth curriculum to all of the schools, and using our Innovation Hub as a meeting place for teachers in the community to come and learn about coding and how to introduce / embed our material into their existing coding requirements.

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Soon enough, every child in Kambuzuma will be learning how to code. We can't wait for that day!

2026 bootcamp intake closed

Applications for our current Kambuzuma Bootcamp intake are now closed. Please check back soon for updates on our next intake.

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While our after school programs are entirely free for our partner government schools, we offer paid courses to private & charter schools to help subsidize the costs of our free program. Please get in touch if you’d like to bring coding to your school.

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If you've visited an Uncommon Innovation Hub before, you know our spaces are not ordinary. Every hub is designed to inspire. To make a young person walk through the door and immediately feel like they belong somewhere worth showing up for.

The Sally Foundation Innovation Hub, our second hub in Bulawayo, is no different. We partner with local artists to bring each hub to life. The murals, the colours, the feel of the space, all of it is intentional. Because we believe the environment you learn in shapes the person you become.

This hub will serve young adults from the community who are ready to spend 12 months learning design, software development, and digital marketing. It will also open its doors to the kids, with free after-school coding classes taught by the very bootcamp students going through the program.

Bulawayo already has one Uncommon hub changing lives. This one will multiply our reach.

We are counting down to completion. Stay tuned!

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