Solomon Benge

Founder & Executive Director, Fundi Bots

Biography

In 2011, he founded Fundi Bots, an education non-profit with a mission to accelerate science learning in Africa.

Fundi Bots promotes better learning outcomes, improved career prospects and real-world technological advancement in African schools and communities through training and experimentation in hands-on, project-based and skills-oriented science disciplines, starting with robotics. Since 2014,

Fundi Bots has worked with over 10,000 students.
Solomon is a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow and a 2014 Ashoka Fellow. In 2017, Solomon was selected as an African Visionary Fellow by the Segal Family Foundation.

Regional Focus

Eastern and Southern Africa