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CareerPath Profile

Who is CareerPath ?

Careerpath is a registered Ugandan non-profit committed to stimulating career development for the Ugandan society. By initiating and sustaining a career system in Uganda through Career Awareness, Career Education, Work Experience Education, and Employability Education, Careerpath envisions a society where people have passionate and fulfilling work. Our aim is to integrate career teaching and learning in Uganda’s education system. Careerpath is highly reputable in the nonprofit sector in Uganda for its unique work of career guidance in schools and boasts of partnerships with public and private sector institutions. Among public sector Institutions includes a formal partnership with the Ministry of Education and Sports to work with education institutions and acknowledgement by National Curriculum Development Center to deliver career preparation programs to improve the quality of education in Uganda.

Our Vision

A world where people have passionate and fulfilling work.

Our Mission

To initiate and sustain a career development system in Uganda.

Our Goals

  • To create extensive public awareness of the benefits of early and continuous career education to increase the level of appreciation, access and demand for career development services.
  • To enable young people to define and follow their career ambitions early on in life to make their transition to work more attainable.
  • To prepare young people for the future world of work by connecting them to employers to learn employability skills and to market their skills to employers.
  • To integrate career teaching and learning in Uganda’s education system to address the career gaps of young people.

Our Story

Careerpath promotes career teaching and learning in Ugandan formal and informal education systems through career education and awareness, employability and workforce readiness training. The way in which young people think about their career options is strongly influenced by their social background and settings. However, early and varied exposure to different careers and the world of work can help broaden their horizons. Careerpath believes getting this timely and early access to and utilization of career guidance information required to take informed career decisions increases young people’s future life chances to transition from school to work and to be responsible future employers and employees.

The people behind Careerpath !
Andrew Magunda , Founder

Andrew’s early life experiences, both as a student for 16 years and as an education practitioner for over a decade, opened his eyes to the reality that meaningful deliberate career education was almost absent in Ugandan schools. He believes that with guidance, individuals can best reflect and shape their desired career future. As it is now, our education system by far lacks this guidance, with very few school career teachers while the available ones lack the right technical support to do their job. Andrew wants to institutionalize career guidance in Uganda, to enable individuals get early career preparation, and lead an ensuing career future.

Fortunate Mbarushimana , Co-Founder

Fortunate describes his education as a coincidental expedition that never indicated to her what her future career would be. She wanted to be a lawyer but never knew what it takes to be a lawyer. She admired doctors but was never initiated into sciences. After testing this shady education journey, her resolve was to walk that path again, this time with students she would mentor to get to the top of their career ladder. Fortunate attributes Uganda’s career problems to lack of a career system that introduces students to career guidance. She feels the current education system hardly tells students how what they are learning connects to their career future. She believes career guidance should start right from primary school and the education system should increase students’ career preparation.

What we do

Career programs to schools in vulnerable communities!

Young people in resource constrained communities deserve an early start to career development and employability to manage the potential ramifications that come with this gap. We provide our career programs to students and the teachers that bring career education to children in vulnerable and hard to reach communities to increase equitable access to career guidance information to those in most need.

Career Mentorship!

Our career programs intently move career education beyond just ticking a box for a learner’s next subject, class, course or degree, rather use a system-wide approach, integrating age specific, gender focused, culturally appropriate, and globally acceptable standards.

Using a learner-centered and friendly curriculum

If a child cannot learn in the way we teach, we must teach them in a way the child can learn. Making the classroom more relevant to learners is our strategy to shape the future of children and the school products the labor market receives.

Working with employers to build skillful employees

Employers understand the labor market better than anyone. Careerpath believes working with them to deliver informed advice to learners and their teachers helps to bring the world of work closer to the classroom. We work with different companies and institutions to equip learners with the right tools, skills and information they need to learn about jobs.

Our Career Education goes digital!

We teach young people the importance of technology in pursuing their career dreams. As part of this learning, learners in our career lessons practically make paper-based apps that solve community challenges. Thanks to the digital partnership with AppsforGood and Aflatoun International .

Career Education and Economic Empowerment!

Helping young people find their right Careerpath that will make them sustainably successful and contribute to economic empowerment of their immediate families and communities is an effort we are using to end poverty. We also mix our career lessons with lessons on entrepreneurship to make learners appreciate growing and living with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Supporting Government efforts!

We work with relevant Civil society organisations to guide government on the priorities in career education and guidance in the school system.

Rethinking Education to be more career oriented!

We work to support policy shift towards strategies that support more investment into career education, information and guidance.

Career Education and Gender!

Through a balanced career education curriculum, we support learners to challenge gender stereotypes in choosing a career. We inspire students to pursue careers in industries that have traditionally been dominated by males or females respectively.

Linking students to lifelong career mentors

We believe that one act of mentorship has the power to transform a whole generation. Our career education programs connect students and graduates to successful professionals in different career fields they aspire to penetrate. These career mentors offer the young people advise, counselling, and direction as they pursue their career dreams.

Our Team

Andrew Magunda

Founder / Executive Director

Fortunate Mbarushimana

Programs Director

Julius Musinguzi

Team Leader - Digital Education

Noah Magonge

Team Leader - Monitoring and Evaluation

Abigail Ajwang

Project Assistant – Explore Careers

Irene Mutumba

Innovations Advisor

Mary Odiit

Strategic Information Advisor

Abu Musuuza

Youth Advisor

Martin Ssenkungu

Finance Sector Advisor

Sam Gimanga

Legal Sector Advisor

James Pimundu

Non Profit Sector Advisor

Simon Bailey

Development Sector Advisor

Our Impact so Far

5495
Young people reached
5000
People reached through Career Talk public awareness campaigns
74
Teachers reached in schools
30
Education Institutions reached with career education

Our Programs

CareerPath International has a number of educative and exciting programs which include :.

CareerTalk Program (CTP)

Aims to create extensive public awareness of the benefits of early and continuous career education and guidance at all levels of society in order to increase Read More ...

Career Education Program (CEP)

aims to increase the ability of young people to define their career ambitions and select relevant career choices. Read More ...

Work Experience Education Program (WEEP)

focuses on connecting students to employers to learn about the world of work, and for others, especially graduates, to market their skills to employers Read More ...

Employability Education Program (EEP)

Embedding employability and work readiness skills training into education equips young people for the future world of work. Read More ...

CAREER TIPS

Listen to what some of our Career mentors have to say:

Testimonials: What they Say about Careerpath and its work