With more than 60 million video views and 600,000 active students on a monthly basis in 5 countries, Nafham has cracked the entrepreneurial scene by becoming the Middle East’s region largest educational platform. We sat down with Muhammad Habib, co-founder and COO of Nafham to learn more about the platform. What was the main objective behind initiating such a project? Back in 2011, the founders were looking at statistics in Egypt showing increasing birth rates without similar increase in numbers of schools built, which created a gap between the ideal and the actual classroom sizes. One of the main reasons behind the poor quality of education is the inability of the education system to serve the growing population. In fact, the birth rate announced by the Statistics Department in 2009 is 2.6 million. In 6 years (2015) those 2.6 million children entered the schooling system, which can only accommodate 1.8 million. The 800,000 children are being packed in overcrowded classrooms, attending shorter academic days designed to accommodate different students at multiple shifts, or worse, not enrolled or dropping out early. This gap is increasing on an annual basis given the discrepancy…
