When Timoteo Ombati, an outstanding graduate from Kenyatta University in Kenya, was inducted into the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa's Teacher Preparation Programme (TPP) in 2016, he was elated. “I couldn't hide my joy,” he says exuberantly. “I celebrated with the whole village!” The TPP, a multi-phase programme, was designed by the Aga Khan Academies to train outstanding graduates from public universities to teach one or more of the International Baccalaureate programmes to become transformative educators in their communities.