Curricula, built to be handed over
Image-first slides, lesson structure and teaching notes designed to work in low-bandwidth classrooms and be run by someone who did not write them.
Youth-led · Japan · Nonprofit
English to Uplift & Utilize
We build English curricula and hand them to the teachers and organisations already working with the students who need them.
01 What we do
We equip teachers, not just students
Getting devices and connectivity to every student is the hardest part of remote teaching, and it is rarely the part we can solve. So we stopped trying to teach every student ourselves. We build the materials, and the people already in the room deliver them.
Delivered by local partners
Partner organisations and their teachers run the lessons. They know their students; we supply the structure and the materials.
Revised after every run
What the teachers report back becomes the next version. The curriculum improves because it has been used, not because we rewrote it.
Who writes them
The bar our mentors clear
Our mentors are 13–18. The qualification they hold is not a school award — EIKEN Grade 1 is an adult certification, and most adults who sit it do not pass. Every person who writes or reviews a curriculum has cleared all three of the following.
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EIKEN Grade 1
Passed across reading, writing, listening and speaking. An adult-level certification with a pass rate in the low teens.
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or TOEFL iBT 100+
The alternative route where EIKEN Grade 1 has not been taken.
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Interview and demo lesson
A one-on-one interview plus a taught demo, assessed on communication and teaching ability — not just on the certificate.
02 Where we work
Based in Japan, working in four more places
How we work differs by partner, and we would rather be precise about it than round it up.
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Japan
BaseWhere EN2U is based and where our mentors are. Every curriculum is written here.
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Guatemala
We taught directlyA year of weekly lessons with an NPO partner — our mentors in the room, one hour per group, every week.
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Gaza
We supplied the curriculumWe provided the materials. Our partner delivered the teaching. We did not run these classrooms, and we amplify Gaza Soup Kitchen’s humanitarian work separately.
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Afghanistan
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India
03 Impact
What we can account for
Figures below are what our records support. Where a number is a floor, it is written as a floor.
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year of weekly lessons
2024–25 · Guatemalan literacy project
20+
hours of instruction
Guatemala · one hour per group, weekly
300+
students reached
Directly and through partners
Guatemala
A year of weekly lessons
We taught directlyWorking with an NPO partner, our mentors taught weekly for roughly a year — one hour per group, every week. We built image-first slides that worked over unreliable connections, opened with icebreakers to get students talking, and wrote feedback after each session.
This is the only programme where EN2U mentors were the ones teaching. Everything we learned about what survives a low-bandwidth classroom came from here, and it is what the curricula are built on.
Gaza
Curriculum supplied, partner delivered
We supplied the curriculumWe provided teaching materials to a partner in Gaza. They ran the sessions. We were not in the room and we did not run these classrooms — the distinction matters, and we would rather state it than let a reader assume otherwise.
Separately from this, we use our platform to amplify Gaza Soup Kitchen, a grassroots organisation providing hot meals across Gaza. That is solidarity work, not a teaching programme, and we count it as neither.
Methodology
How we count
Hours are counted from scheduled sessions that ran. “Students reached” combines students our mentors taught directly with students taught by partners using our curricula — we do not separate the two because our partners report totals, not rosters. Where a figure is a floor rather than an exact count, it is written with a plus sign. We do not publish follower counts as impact.
04 Contact
Get in touch
We work with organisations that are already teaching. If that is you, or you want to use our curricula, reach out.