About Toyekola Elongo

 Toyekola Elongo is an educational initiative dedicated to strengthening literacy and numeracy in low-resource schools, particularly in rural and peri-urban communities. We work to support teachers, improve learning environments, engage communities, and ensure sustainable impact through monitoring and evaluation. Our goal is to help students build strong foundational skills and create lasting educational change.

 

Let’s learn together.

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OUR JOURNEY  

Toyekola Elongo was born from a personal and professional journey across Africa, Asia, and the United States, grounded in a deep commitment to education as a lever for social transformation. While studying Educational Policy, Leadership, and School Management at East China Normal University in Shanghai, I developed educational strategies aimed at addressing illiteracy in Kingabwa, Kinshasa. That experience revealed that many learning gaps originate at the primary school level.

 

Later, while further developing my expertise in curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy in the United States, I was exposed to structured instructional practices, research-based educational approaches, and professional development models that could help strengthen teaching and learning in under-resourced schools.

 

This work first began through collaborations with rural and peri-urban schools in Kinshasa and is now evolving into a more structured initiative focused on strengthening instructional practices, supporting teachers, and improving student learning outcomes.

 

Toyekola Elongo reflects this vision:

I am learning here.

I am sharing there.

Teachers learn from one another.

Students learn more effectively.

School leaders strengthen their practices.

Communities engage in the educational process.

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We learn together.

 

Toyekola Elongo means in Lingala: “Let’s Learn Together.”

 

Patricia Mouboua Founder & President