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Managing Organization:
Mango Tree Educational Enterprises
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Contact Name:
Craig Esbeck
Contact Email:
craigesbeck@yahoo.com , info@mangotreeuganda.org
Contact Phone:
256-77-453-162 256-77-558-586
Contact Address:
MANGO TREE EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES
PLOT 1479, NAALYA ROAD, NTINDA
P.O. BOX 25312
KAMPALA, UGANDA
Affiliated Organizations:
Ashoka, Roses of Mbuya, The NEED Foundation, The Uganda Society for Disabled Children, Bhagavat Education and Training
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Activity Description:
Founded in January 2000, Mango Tree manufactures innovative educational tools for schools and health centers and provides training in how to use them effectively. Products include educational games and toys, pictorial charts, counseling tools for health care workers, and large format story charts used to ignite discussion on subjects such as gender, communication, and HIV/AIDS.
Many of these educational tools are made from locally available materials like grain sacks, bottle tops, recycled slippers (flip-flops), bicycle spokes, gourds, and plastic jerry cans. This makes them easy to replicate by low income educators, and they impact low-income individuals (75% of clients are below the poverty line of $2/day) by improving the quality of educational services they receive.
Mango Tree is a private limited company with thirty shareholders, the majority of whom are employees. Established with an initial capital investment of about US $2,500, Mango Tree has been a self- sustaining enterprise since its inception: client fees represent 99% of the operational budget.
Mango Tree is scaling up after six years of rapid growth. Total sales in 2004 were $275,000, after having sold products to over 4,500 primary schools trained 12,800 teachers, and impacted about 875,000 children in village primary schools. The organization hopes to have its products in 100% of Uganda's schools.
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