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About EduWings
Our mission
To place aviation within reach of every Kenyan schoolchild — not as a distant fantasy, but as a mapped, achievable career with a first step they can take this term.
Our vision
A generation of Kenyan students who grow up knowing that the aircraft overhead was designed, built, maintained, guided and flown by people who started exactly where they are sitting.
The founder
Founder — EduWings
Meldah Magova founded EduWings after a decade in aviation, convinced that the single biggest barrier between a Kenyan student and an aviation career is not ability — it is never having been told the career exists.
I had spent ten years in this industry and I could not answer a fifteen-year-old asking how to enter it. Not because the answer is complicated — because nobody had ever written it down for someone like her.
Our objectives
Introduce students to the full breadth of the aviation industry — the fourteen careers behind every departure, not just the two they can name.
Replace vague ambition with specifics: which subjects, which grades, which licence, which institution, which first job.
Every session is delivered by a working aviation professional. Representation is not decoration; it is the mechanism.
Anchor Mathematics and Physics in something students can see, hear and want — the single most effective argument for the subject.
Prioritise schools with the least existing exposure to the industry, not the ones easiest to reach.
Leave every school with materials, a contact and a route back to us — a visit is a beginning, not an event.
How we got here
2023
During a school careers day, a Form Two student asked our founder how someone becomes an aircraft engineer. Nobody in the room could answer. EduWings started as the answer to that question, written down.
2023
Forty-one students, one borrowed projector, and a set of laminated cockpit photographs. Three of those students are now studying aeronautical engineering.
2024
Ad-hoc talks became a structured eight-module curriculum, mapped against CBC learning outcomes and reviewed by practising teachers.
2024
Working pilots, licensed engineers and air traffic controllers volunteered to deliver sessions. The programme stopped being a talk about aviation and became a conversation with it.
2025
Visits extended to schools in counties where no student had previously met an aviation professional — the schools that need this most.
2026
Eighty-six schools. Fourteen documented career pathways. A growing list of former students now in aviation training.
Why EduWings matters
Career aspiration is bounded by exposure. A student who has never met an aircraft engineer does not choose against that career — the option was never presented. We are not persuading students; we are widening the list they choose from.
African air traffic is projected to grow faster than the global average for the next two decades, while licensed engineers and controllers are in worldwide shortage. The jobs are arriving. The pipeline is not being built at the same speed.
'Why do we learn this?' is the hardest question in a Physics classroom. An aircraft answers it in a way no textbook can. Teachers consistently tell us the effect on engagement outlasts the visit by a term.
Inspiration that is not followed by specifics decays within a week. Every EduWings session ends with the concrete next step — the subject, the grade, the institution, the licence. That is the part that survives.
12.4k+
Students reached
Across primary and secondary schools since our first classroom visit.
86
Schools visited
From Nairobi county classrooms to schools that had never met a pilot.
14
Career pathways mapped
Every one documented from school subject to first salary.
31
Volunteer professionals
Working pilots, engineers and controllers who give us their days off.
If you teach, lead a school, or work in aviation and can spare a few days a year — that is the whole ask.