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Whether you give, teach, research, host, or simply show up — iGrawe has a role shaped for your gifts.
Tell us who you are. We'll find your role.
Fund one full Story Lab session for one young person — facilitated, culturally grounded and safe.
Bring your facilitation skills into schools and communities as a trained iGrawe Story Lab leader.
Place culturally grounded books in the hands of a full story lab cohort, written by children for children.
Connect us to schools, communities and networks. Help us stay contextually honest.
Contribute African proverbs, oral history and wisdom that shape our curriculum.
Volunteer your psychology or counselling expertise to support trauma-aware programme design.
Offer design, tech, media or communications skills to strengthen our capacity.
Bring the circle to your community. Host a storytelling evening — we give you everything you need.
Connect iGrawe with your school or educational network. Start a conversation.
Every movement begins with a single act. One story shared. One person who showed up. One connection made. You don't have to have it all figured out — we'll help you find your step.
✦ HOST AN EVENING
An iGrawe Evening is a simple but powerful thing — a gathering of people, a storytelling prompt, and a space where community memory gets to breathe. You don't need to be a facilitator. You just need to care enough to create the space.
We give you a complete hosting guide, a curated set of prompts, and support before and after. You choose the people and the place. We hold your hand through the rest.
Choose your space and people
Your home, a community hall, a rooftop — anywhere people can sit together. Invite who matters to you.
Download the iGrawe Hosting Guide
We send you everything — agenda, prompts, facilitation notes and a short orientation guide.
Pick a prompt
Choose from our curated library of African storytelling prompts or use the one we recommend for your context.
Hold the evening
Let people speak. Let stories surface. You're there to hold space, not perform.
Tell us what happened
Share a reflection with us — no reports, no data. Just what moved you. We love to hear.
✦ ELDERS' COUNCIL
At iGrawe, we believe the most important educational resource for African children is not a textbook — it is the living memory held by elders, storytellers, cultural practitioners and grandparents across the continent.
Our Elders' Council is a formal advisory body of cultural keepers who shape our curriculum, validate our storytelling frameworks and ensure our work remains rooted in authentic African knowledge traditions — not borrowed or adapted from elsewhere.
Membership is by invitation and application. We are currently seeking voices from across East, West, Central and Southern Africa.
Apply to join →Community elders & grandparents
Holders of oral tradition, intergenerational wisdom and community memory.
Storytellers & griots
Practitioners of African narrative traditions — spoken word, poetry, performance and oral history.
Cultural & spiritual practitioners
Keepers of ritual, cosmology, healing tradition and cultural ceremony.
African language keepers
Speakers and scholars of African languages preserving mother-tongue narrative and proverb traditions.
We look for people whose skills and values align with our work — not credentials alone, but genuine commitment to African-led impact.
Trauma-aware facilitation training and school delivery — the heart of our Story Labs.
Clinical and developmental psychology expertise to support emotionally safe programme design.
Audio, video, photography and written storytelling to document and amplify community voices.
Web development, design, data and digital tools that strengthen our reach and infrastructure.
Participatory research, academic writing and impact documentation rooted in African contexts.
On-the-ground relationship building, school and community liaison, and network navigation.
✦ EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST
Whether you give, facilitate, host, connect, or simply show up — you become part of a movement that believes African children deserve to see themselves in the stories that shape them.