Tumusando/Edupay-Africa-Stellar

Stellar powered education payments for Africa # EduPay Africa 🌍🎓 EduPay Africa is a **Stellar-powered education payment platform** enabling **fast, low-cost, and transparent** school fee and scholarship payments across Africa. It empowers **schools, students, and parents** to manage payments efficiently. --- ## 🚨 Problem In many parts of East Africa: -Many parents do not have access to reliable banking systems -School payments are often done manually or through expensive transfers -Cross-border payments are slow and costly -Schools struggle to track and verify payments --- ## 💡 Solution EduPay Africa leverages the Stellar blockchain to: -EduPay Africa solves this problem by using the Stellar blockchain to enable fast, low-cost, and transparent school fee payments. Parents can send payments digitally, schools can verify them instantly, and every transaction is recorded on the blockchain for transparency. - Enable instant school fee payments using USDC - Provide transparent, on-chain payment records - Allow donors and NGOs to fund students directly - Support cross-border education payments --- ## ⭐ Why Stellar? - ⚡ Fast settlement (seconds) - 💸 Extremely low transaction fees - 🪙 Native support for stablecoins (USDC) - 🌍 Designed for cross-border payments - 🔍 Transparent and secure ledger --- ## 🧱 Architecture - Frontend: React (implemented) - Backend: Node.js + Express - Blockchain: Stellar Network - Smart Contracts: Soroban (Rust) - Payments: USDC on Stellar - Wallets: Stellar Keypairs --- ### 🎓 Education Coverage Scope (End-to-End) EduPay Africa is designed to support the full education journey: - Early Childhood Education (Nursery / Kindergarten) - Primary Education - Lower Secondary Education - Upper Secondary Education - Technical & Vocational Education (TVET) - Colleges & Professional Institutes - Undergraduate Degree Programs - Postgraduate Programs (Masters & PhD) - Professional Certifications - Cross-border education programs within Africa ----- ## 🔑 Core Features ### Imple …