OUR PROGRAMS
Five programs, already running, already reaching thousands of students across Rwanda.
OUR PROGRAMS
A debate club meets on Tuesday afternoons. A leadership camp runs for ten days straight. Both are iDebate.
National Debate League
Five regional leagues (Kigali, East, North, West, South) feed into a National Debate Tournament where the top 16 schools compete, with selected rounds broadcast nationally on KC2’s TV Debate Series. Open to any secondary school; reaches up to 220 schools and 8,000+ students in a year.
Dreamers Academy
A 10-day residential camp built around debate, storytelling, creativity, mentorship and leadership. Marked its 10th year in 2025, and now draws international participants from Uganda, South Sudan and partner universities in the US. For students ready for something more intensive than a weekly club.
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Teachers Debate Institute
Trains teachers to bring debate into their own classrooms, including a dedicated track for Teacher Training Colleges. Grew from 78 active teachers in 2022 to 142 in 2023, with 320 future teachers trained across 16 colleges. The program that multiplies iDebate’s reach well beyond its own coaches.
Money Makeover Challenge
A financial literacy program run with the BK Foundation, using real urban and rural finance case studies to teach students how money actually works. Reached 1,500 students across two cohorts in 2024.
International Programs
Debate on a bigger stage: the East African Debate Championship, the Global Debate Series, and “Voices From a Post-Genocide Generation” a US university speaking tour that has reached 60+ universities including Harvard, Yale, George Washington and Pepperdine and more than 50,000 people. For students and alumni ready to represent Rwanda beyond its borders.
National Debate League
Five regional leagues (Kigali, East, North, West, South) feed into a National Debate Tournament where the top 16 schools compete, with selected rounds broadcast nationally on KC2’s TV Debate Series. Open to any secondary school; reaches up to 220 schools and 8,000+ students in a year.
Dreamers Academy
A 10-day residential camp built around debate, storytelling, creativity, mentorship and leadership. Marked its 10th year in 2025, and now draws international participants from Uganda, South Sudan and partner universities in the US. For students ready for something more intensive than a weekly club.
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Teachers Debate Institute
Trains teachers to bring debate into their own classrooms, including a dedicated track for Teacher Training Colleges. Grew from 78 active teachers in 2022 to 142 in 2023, with 320 future teachers trained across 16 colleges. The program that multiplies iDebate’s reach well beyond its own coaches.
Money Makeover Challenge
A financial literacy program run with the BK Foundation, using real urban and rural finance case studies to teach students how money actually works. Reached 1,500 students across two cohorts in 2024.
International Programs
Debate on a bigger stage: the East African Debate Championship, the Global Debate Series, and “Voices From a Post-Genocide Generation” a US university speaking tour that has reached 60+ universities including Harvard, Yale, George Washington and Pepperdine and more than 50,000 people. For students and alumni ready to represent Rwanda beyond its borders.
Ambitions
By 2030
Opportunity & Pathways
A planned department to connect alumni with actual opportunity: scholarships, internships, mentorship. The target by 2030: $5 million in facilitated scholarship funding and partnerships with 25+ universities.
Building Youth Soft Skills Platform
A planned initiative to build training beyond debate itself: workplace communication, English fluency, and employability skills for students heading into their first jobs, not their next tournament.
Integrating A Formal Alumni Network
A plan to formalize what’s already happening informally: alumni who return as volunteers, coaches and mentors into an official network: a database of 10,000+ alumni, with 2,000 actively engaged each year.
Becoming iDebate Global
A planned US nonprofit that would let supporters abroad give, partner and engage with iDebate more directly, deepening the international exchanges already underway through programs like the US univers
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What we’re building toward
Opportunity & Pathways
A planned department to connect alumni with actual opportunity: scholarships, internships, mentorship. The target by 2030: $5 million in facilitated scholarship funding and partnerships with 25+ universities.
Youth Soft Skills Platform
A planned initiative to build training beyond debate itself: workplace communication, English fluency, and employability skills for students heading into their first jobs, not their next tournament.
A Formal Alumni Network
A plan to formalize what’s already happening informally: alumni who return as volunteers, coaches and mentors into an official network: a database of 10,000+ alumni, with 2,000 actively engaged each year.
iDebate Global
A planned US nonprofit that would let supporters abroad give, partner and engage with iDebate more directly, deepening the international exchanges already underway through programs like the US univers
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Every program feeds the next. A student’s first class debate can lead to a regional league, a leadership camp, a university application and, one day, coaching the students who come after them. Your support keeps that path open for every young voice still waiting for a stage.
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Whether you’re a parent or school or organization interested in supporting our vision, there’s a place for you in the iDebate network
Bring iDebate to your school
Start or grow a debate club and join the National Debate League.
Become a partner
Invest in Rwanda’s next generation of leaders, through funding, training or opportunities for our students.
Volunteer
If you are aged 18 to 30, train as a coach, judge or organiser and pass on what you know.