Education Matters Launches Partnership with Kutunga!

Education Matters has recently  partnered with Kutunga to bring digital child safeguarding training to Zimbabweans working in the digital space or working with children. This is in line with our vision to see empowered youth in Zimbabwe leading lives of purpose and positive impact across Africa.

Our partnership aims to recruit 50+ professionals working in or alongside technology and digital ecosystems  in Zimbabwe to the Kutunga Cohort 2 training starting 01 April 2026 – 20 August 2026 to ensure that every solution we build also directly advances children’s rights, safety, and wellbeing in the ever-evolving digital age.  

Kutunga is a women-led, pan-African child safety and child-centred design organisation operating at the intersection of technology, child development, policy, and African socio-cultural contexts. Kutunga ensures that digital products and emerging technologies are safe-by-design, developmentally appropriate, and culturally grounded for African children, while supporting compliant and scalable market entry across the continent.

Kutunga operates through the Kutunga Design Academy & Innovation Lab, a hybrid model comprising:

1. a high-tech Digital Academy that trains specialised safety-by-design architects — including developers, AI engineers, and UI/UX designers — and
2. an Innovation & R&D Lab that functions as a real-world sandbox where startups,global firms, and institutions can test, adapt, validate, and certify digital products forAfrican childhood contexts prior to deployment.