Education for Hope
Education for Hope is a movement inspired and born at the intersection of two enduring legacies: Nelson Mandela's conviction that "education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" and Pope Francis's call—rooted in the Jubilee year’s vision of hope—for an education that is community-centred, humanising and grounded in solidarity.
Together, these legacies offer both the moral grounding and strategic urgency to reimagine education not as a transaction in isolated institutions, but as a living network of villages, schools and communities that raise children and shape futures.
This initiative is advancing “No Limits to Hope,” a global call to action by The Club of Rome and The Fifth Element program to shift learning paradigms and tackle humanity’s most urgent challenges.
Rooted in Ubuntu, I am because we are, Education for Hope reframes education as a communal act of healing and co-creation. It is not a programme or policy but a living social movement emerging from the majority of the world and speaking to humanity, that education must once again make us more human, not more competitive.
Together, the movement’s collaboration with The Club of Rome and The Fifth Element’s focuses on:
- Influencing policy: shaping the renewal of the ‘Global compact on education’ with voices from most of the world
- Building networks: linking African, Latin American, and Asian innovations in education
- Demonstrating practice: elevating community-rooted schools and ubuntu-based learning
- Bridging global–local learning: creating space for shared understanding across geographies
Find out more about the project: https://educationforhope.org.za/
