The Teach For Uganda STEM Fellowship is a pilot program implemented under the Leaders in Teaching Program, a flagship initiative supported by the Mastercard Foundation and led by the Luigi Giussani Foundation through a consortium of education partners.

The Fellowship responds to a clear and urgent need: Uganda needs more capable, committed, and well-supported STEM teachers, especially women, who can help learners build the skills, confidence, and imagination required for a rapidly changing world.

Through this pilot, Teach For Uganda is recruiting and developing young leaders with strong STEM backgrounds, placing them in secondary schools, and supporting them to become effective teachers, mentors, and role models for learners, especially girls.

This is more than a teaching program. It is a leadership pathway designed to strengthen STEM education, expand opportunity, and help build a stronger teacher pipeline for Uganda’s secondary education system.