Our Mission
Making education more accessible to more people, more often. Sustainably.
Our Vision
Is a world where every person has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential.
Our 5 Values
Kindness
We are good partners. We are trustworthy, humble, fun to work with and sincerely want the utmost success for each other and our organisation.
Growth Mindset
We are always looking to grow and be better, both as individuals and as an organisation. We make fast decisions and move forward with urgency. We are persistent and continuously learn from our many failures.
Curiosity
We are T-shaped people, always wanting to know more about everything. We are always reading, always testing, growing and improving.
Accountability
We are good partners. We are trustworthy, humble, fun to work with and sincerely want the utmost success for each other and our organisation.
Truth Seeking
We strive to be objective and facts focussed. We make decisions from hard data wherever possible and are mindful of our cognitive biases. We constantly challenge the status quo in pursuit of its underlying truth.
Please join our community and let’s work together to use education to save the world.
Our Journey
August, 2017
The Knowledge Trust Launches
July, 2018
The Bursary Lottery launches. We gave away R3 million in free education!
August, 2018
Trust Interns launches
January, 2019
Trusted Intern’s Shift Tomorrow version 1: R250,000 in free education
April, 2019
We hired our first Trusty’s for The Knowledge Trust
June, 2019
Jason joins the Trusted Interns team
July, 2019
Trusted Interns Shift Tomorrow version 2 with Yoco
August, 2019
Trusted Interns turned one and hit 25,000 members
December, 2019
Trusted Interns Voted top 12 most exciting start-ups in South Africa
January, 2020
Shift Tomorrow version 3 with Uber
February, 2020
Four new interns join the team
March, 2020
Lock-down inspired us to go permanently remote
May, 2020
Trusted Interns’ mission merges with The Knowledge Trust
July, 2020
The Knowledge Trust Shift Tomorrow version 4 and we hit 76,000 members
October, 2020
Munie and Blessing join the team and we hit 100,000 members
November, 2020
Wen-Ching joins the team
January, 2021
Tanya join the team
February, 2021
Min’entle joins the team and we hit 200,000 members
March, 2021
We launch Growth Circles and we hit 265,000 members
April, 2021
Tandie and Siphe join the team
May, 2021
We hit 300,000 members and counting
July, 2021
4 new grads join the team
October 2021
7 new grads joined us
Jan 2022