Our Story

The Ducere Foundation was launched in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, in April 2012 by Mathew Jacobson, Founder of Ducere and Di Fleming AM, Executive Director. 
 
Our Patron was the late Quett Ketumile Joni Masire GCMG, the second President of Botswana (1980–1998), who was proud to support the Foundation's commitment to peace and education. Sir Ketumile became a close friend and supporter of the Foundation.

The Foundation's vision and mission is to develop motivated and passionate 10–14 year old learners and leaders through the implementation of story writing and story telling across Africa. This is achieved by:

• preserving oral tradition, encouraging imagination and documenting life experience
• building a train the trainer, master-class model for scaleable, transformational change
• promoting the power of peace and self-awareness of social responsibility
• empowering children to become leaders today, for tomorrow.

Ducere is a philanthro-capital organisation with the majority of the Foundation’s funding donated by Ducere Global Business School. Each student enrolment in our degree programs is an investment in the Foundation's education programs across Africa.

The Foundation has the conscience of a not for profit and the mindset of a global enterprise.

With thanks

As Ducere Foundation continues to build relationships across Africa in order to capture and publish the stories that children write, we are grateful to so many individuals and organisations. We thank you for trusting us to work within your schools and sit beside your students as we support their innate talent and encourage them to imagine, reflect and preserve their oral tradition.
 
We have read almost 40,000 stories and we thank every child who has shared a story. Not all stories are published but the effort and thought of each child is acknowledged. Thank you to all the students who have been published. Your stories are part of a pan-African vision where each nation is recognised and each story treasured.