Wherever learning happens — every child who attends, every session that runs, every piece of progress made deserves to be captured, verified, and counted.
Soma Trace is a learner identity and progress tracking platform. Every learner gets a permanent, portable identity. Every programme gets the verified data it needs to improve outcomes, justify funding, and plan with confidence.
Across Kenya and beyond, millions of children attend programmes every day. Teachers teach. Facilitators show up. But without verified identity, without individual records, without reliable data — none of it is measurable. Funding decisions are made on estimates. At-risk learners go unnoticed. And the children who need support the most remain invisible to the systems designed to help them.
Soma Trace gives every learner a permanent, portable learning identity. In a formal school, a community learning centre, an NGO programme, or an off-grid camp in Turkana — their record travels with them. Not an app. Not a login. A laminated card the size of a school ID. Scannable in 2 seconds. Works on any shared device. Works with no internet. Built for every learner, wherever they are.
Printed on any printer. Laminated at any cyber café. Costs less than KES 30.
The facilitator opens the Soma Trace app on their phone — no internet needed. They fill in the learner's name, age, gender, and any relevant details. The app generates a unique identity card instantly. The learner keeps the card. It is theirs permanently.
Every session, the learner holds their card to any device camera. The system recognises them in 2 seconds — no password, no login, no literacy required. Their session begins. Their progress is tracked under their identity, not the device.
Everything — attendance, progress, session time — saves to the device immediately. When the device picks up even a brief mobile signal, it syncs silently in the background. Facilitators do not manage this. It happens automatically.
Programme officers open the web dashboard from any laptop. They see attendance rates, gender breakdowns, at-risk learners, and progress trends across every learning centre. They download a report formatted to Kenya's national education system with one click.
Learner identity and progress tracking is a universal need. Every school, every NGO programme, every community learning centre has the same core challenge — knowing who their learners are and whether they're making progress. Soma Trace works across all of these contexts.
Organisations delivering learning need verified evidence of reach, attendance, and outcomes to maintain donor confidence and secure continued funding. Soma Trace produces that evidence automatically.
Any school or learning centre running on shared devices benefits from individual learner tracking that works without logins or reliable internet. Progress records travel with the learner across classes and years.
In Kakuma, Dadaab, and urban settlement programmes across Kenya, children move frequently and their records rarely follow. A portable, printed identity means their learning history is never lost.
In Turkana, Marsabit, and Kenya's arid and semi-arid regions, off-grid learning happens daily. Soma Trace was designed from the ground up for zero connectivity — not adapted after the fact.
For learners. For organisations. For governments. For the funders who need to know their investment is working.
Every child in any programme — formal or informal — has a verified record of their learning. A record that travels when they move, proves their progress, and counts in the data systems that matter.
With verified attendance and progress data, organisations produce the evidence donors require. Data replaces estimates. Programmes that are genuinely delivering results can prove it — and keep their funding.
Gender-disaggregated data is built in from day one. When girls' attendance drops, the system flags it automatically. Interventions happen before dropout, not after.
Automated detection flags any learner absent for 21 days. Facilitators receive alerts. Community follow-up happens. Most flagged learners return within two weeks.
A child who moves between communities, schools, or programmes does not start from zero. Their history follows them. Their progress counts wherever they land next.
EMIS-formatted exports bring learners from refugee and rural settings into Kenya's national education data. Programmes feed directly into planning — and learners get counted for the first time.
The people who use it every day
Before Soma Trace, we had no way to prove how many children attended our learning centre each week. Now we have real data we can show to our funders and to the Ministry.
Amina Hassan
Lead Facilitator, Refugee Camp Learning Centre
We go three days without internet and not a single attendance record is lost. The offline sync solved our biggest operational problem without adding a single step to the teacher's day.
James Omondi
Programme Officer, Northern Kenya
For the first time I could show the donor exactly how many girls completed each module. That gender breakdown in the report is what got our funding renewed.
Grace Mwangi
Education Coordinator, IRC Kenya
Every other learner tracking system assumes devices per learner, reliable internet, and individual logins. Soma Trace assumes none of these. It is the first learner identity platform designed from the ground up for shared devices, intermittent connectivity, and the children that existing technology has never reached.
Whether you run a school, manage an education programme, or need verified learning data for donor reporting — we would like to talk.
Built in Kenya. Tracking learners wherever learning happens.