Our partner

Our operational partner is PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools). PEAS is a charity/social enterprise hybrid which runs a rapidly growing network of public private partnership secondary schools in Africa. PEAS works in collaboration with the governments of Uganda and Zambia to widen access to quality, affordable secondary education in a sustainable manner. Within five years, PEAS aims to have created over 100,000 sustainably funded secondary education places for disadvantaged young people through its innovative 'SmartAid' approach.Whilst PEAS will focus on setting up the schools and making them sustainable in the Ugandan context, ARK brings a strong understanding of measurement and how to drive better learning results for pupils from its UK academies.     

John Rendel, the CEO of PEAS, says: "ARK's partnership with PEAS is having a great impact on our ability to give more children access to a quality education in Uganda. Through financial and technical support from the education experts at ARK, PEAS is able to scale our work and ensure a growing emphasis on the quality of education provided in our schools. The partnership is already leading to a step change in our capabilities."