Beginning in 2013, the foundation's Teacher Training Programme committed to train 250,000 teachers within 10 years in under-served communities across the world.[9][10] The programme began in Uganda in May 2013, and consists of a low-cost, five-day training which the recipients then cascade by training further teachers in their country.[9][11][4] In its first year the programme trained 6,000 teachers in Uganda,[12] and by mid 2015 it had reached 12,000 teachers.[13] The program is broadening to other developing countries in Africa and elsewhere.[11][12][14]