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About EduWings
Opening aviation's possibilities to young learners.
Through her work in education, Meldah Magova saw a need for earlier exposure to aviation careers. Eduwings helps learners explore those possibilities from as early as Grade 4.
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.
Meldah Magova
Our Story
Founder — EduWings
Eduwings was founded by Meldah Magova to address a gap she had seen firsthand: many young learners discover aviation careers only when they are finishing secondary school and have already begun making decisions about their future.
Through her work in education, Meldah saw how early exposure could give learners more time to explore their interests and understand the paths available to them. She envisioned introducing aviation from as early as Grade 4, when curiosity is growing and possibilities still feel wide open.
Aviation is often associated with pilots, but the industry extends far beyond the flight deck. It offers careers in aircraft engineering, air traffic control, cabin crew services, airport operations, meteorology, aviation safety, management, and many other fields. Without access to people and places in the industry, learners may never know these opportunities exist.
Eduwings brings aviation closer to learners through career guidance, mentorship, conversations with industry professionals, and visits to aviation facilities. It also connects learners with institutions and pathways that can help them turn an early interest into an informed ambition.
What began as a vision for greater exposure has grown into a platform for discovery and hands-on learning. Eduwings is guided by a simple belief: no learner should miss an opportunity in aviation simply because they never had the chance to see it.
Our objectives
Six things we are trying to do, stated plainly.
Each one is measurable. We report against them honestly, including where we fall short.
Create awareness
Introduce students to the full breadth of the aviation industry — the fourteen careers behind every departure, not just the two they can name.
Make it concrete
Replace vague ambition with specifics: which subjects, which grades, which licence, which institution, which first job.
Put a face to the career
Every session is delivered by a working aviation professional. Representation is not decoration; it is the mechanism.
Strengthen STEM
Anchor Mathematics and Physics in something students can see, hear and want — the single most effective argument for the subject.
Reach beyond the cities
Prioritise schools with the least existing exposure to the industry, not the ones easiest to reach.
Sustain the connection
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
From one borrowed projector to eighty-six schools.
2023
A vision for earlier exposure
Eduwings was founded by Meldah Magova to address a gap she had seen firsthand: many young learners discover aviation careers only when they are finishing secondary school and have already begun making decisions about their future.
2023
The first classroom
Forty-one students, one borrowed projector, and a set of laminated cockpit photographs. Three of those students are now studying aeronautical engineering.
2024
The programme takes shape
Ad-hoc talks became a structured eight-module curriculum, mapped against CBC learning outcomes and reviewed by practising teachers.
2024
Professionals join
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
Beyond Nairobi
Visits extended to schools in counties where no student had previously met an aviation professional — the schools that need this most.
2026
Twelve thousand and counting
Eighty-six schools. Fourteen documented career pathways. A growing list of former students now in aviation training.
How we work
Awareness → Exposure → Guidance → Experience → Career Direction.
Every school engagement moves a student through the same five stages, whether it takes an afternoon or a year.
- 01 · Awareness
A session in the classroom
A talk, a STEM activity or a Sky Talk with a working professional introduces the full breadth of aviation careers — not just the two most students can already name.
- 02 · Exposure
Real environments, not slides
After the modules, EduWings organises a separately quoted field trip to an aviation facility with simulators. Access and activities are agreed with the host in advance.
- 03 · Guidance
Subjects, grades, licences
Every career page states the actual entry requirement — the subjects, the grade, the licence, the institution — so ambition has something specific to attach to.
- 04 · Experience
Meeting people who do the job
Twenty unscripted minutes with a first officer, an engineer or a controller answers the questions a slide deck cannot: what it pays, whether it is hard, whether someone like them can do it.
- 05 · Career Direction
A written first step
Every session ends with a concrete next action for the student to take that term — not a feeling, a step.
We would rather be in a classroom than on a website.
If you teach, lead a school, or work in aviation and can spare a few days a year — that is the whole ask.