Thrive Grantee: Uganda Vegan Society

2025 Thrive Africa
Vegan School Lunch Accelerator

Join us in the 2nd annual Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Accelerator! The Thrive Africa Accelerator equips social justice leaders with skills to become more effective vegan advocates for public health, animals, and the environment.

Participants will be equipped with tools to launch a vegan school lunch campaign while building an Africa-wide professional vegan advocate network. The accelerator ends with a certificate of completion, chance to apply for a grant, and an invitation to join the pan-Africa-wide, Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch campaign alongside numerous advocates.

We invite you to join us on this exciting journey!  This accelerator is tailored to small and midsize groups and individuals. Women and marginalized groups are encouraged to join.

Learn more about Thrive’s impact across Africa here and see all of Thrive Africa’s other opportunities here.

Questions: africa@thrivephilanthropy.org

Thrive Grantee: AWANET, Tanzania

GOAL

Increase accessibility to healthy, plant-based school lunches and reduce reliance on industrial animal agriculture across African countries, while imparting leadership skills and increasing opportunities to plant-based advocates within Africa.

WHY PARTICIPATE?

  • Double Your Advocacy Impact: Building on the past successes of Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch campaign, we invite you to join us to double the reach and impact in 2025.

  • Cultural Adaptation: Tailor the campaign to fit local cuisines and traditions however you like.

  • Networking: Connect with a network of like-minded advocates across Africa and abroad.

  • Implementation: Each participating organization will run the Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign in their own country, fostering local involvement and pride. (Participating in the Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign is not a requirement, and we invite you to join the accelerator regardless!)

THRIVE AFRICA
VEGAN SCHOOL LUNCH CAMPAIGN

During the accelerator, participants will learn the tools to join the pan-Africa-wide Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign, an umbrella joint campaign housed by Thrive Philanthropy with participating organizations in over 20 cities across Africa. The campaign will run from 1-3 June this year.

Click to learn more about the Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign!

(Participating in the Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign is not a requirement of the accelerator, and we invite you to join regardless!)

Join 2025 Thrive Africa Accelerator

PARTICIPANTS WILL:

LEARN

  • Campaign Development: How to craft a strategy that resonates with local cultures and educational systems.

  • Engagement Techniques: How to effectively educate students, parents, and school staff.

  • Sustainability Education: How to integrate lessons on the environmental sutainability and health benefits of plant-based diets.

  • Working together regionally: How to participate in an Africa-wide campaign alongside advocates across 20+ African countries.

RECEIVE

  • Expert-Led Webinars: Receive learnings from regional and international experts. These will be held on 13 February, 20 February, 6 March and 13 March 2025.

  • Invitation to Join Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign (1-3 June 2025): (Optional) Participants will be invited to join the pan-Africa-wide Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign alongside numerous other advocates from 20+ countries.

  • Campaign Plan: The accelerator ends with a campaign plan drafted by participants.

  • Certificate of Completion: For members who meet criteria.

  • Grant Opportunity: Participants have an opportunity to apply for a grant (receiving a grant is not guaranteed).

  • Professional Vegan Network: Participants will become a part of an Africa-wide and international network of professional vegan advocates.

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Contact Us:

For further inquiries or to get involved, email at africa@thrivephilanthropy.org


Join 2025 Thrive Africa Accelerator

The Thrive Africa Accelerator and Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign is co-founded by Thrive CEO, Jessika Ava, and led by Thrive Africa Senior Co-Manager, Nabaasa Innocent.  Nabaasa is based in Uganda and is an international vegan speaker and workshop leader and founder of one of Africa’s first and largest vegan advocacy organizations, Uganda Vegan Society. She has several years of experience in leading successful vegan advocacy projects including the Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign and Thrive Africa Vegan Restaurant Week and Uganda VegFest. 

TESTIMONIALS

  • "The Africa Accelerator has not only transformed me to a better vegan advocate but has drastically woken the level of compassion I have for animals and nature as a whole. This transformation has inspired me to use every opportunity I have to transform Africans to the noble vegan lifestyle."

    — Ngwa D., Happy World, Cameroon

  • “It was an amazing accelerator of its own kind. Well-organized and very informative with an amazing design that allows everyone to learn and suit the African environment. The acquired knowledge through the accelerator period will help the EAAW team to work very aggressively towards restaurants campaigns and other vegan programs that will help in transforming many people in Tanzania while serving millions of lives of animals that lost their lives for human food every day.”

    — Ayubu, EAAW, Tanzania

  • "It has been a great journey, learning, interacting, sharing knowledge, and mostly paving a new way for our community to reduce animal product consumption."

    — Elnuru S., EAAW, Tanzania

  • "What a great 4 months it has been being part of the accelerator. Learning... from different experts has really been eye-opening."

    — Charles, Vegan Outreach Kenya, Kenya

Thrive Africa is a department of Thrive Philanthropy.

Questions may be sent to africa@thrivephilanthropy.com

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