After BECE
A boy finished his Juz Amma, and is progressing quite well. Then SHS starts. He travels to a boarding school far from home, the lessons stop, and three years later he comes back without ever picking up where he left off.
On campus
A university student wants to really fix her tajweed before she graduates. GMSA is active on her campus and there are imams who give time freely for Qur'an, may Allah reward them. But her lectures overlap with their sessions, the commute back to hall eats the rest of her evening, and she cannot make it consistently enough to actually progress. She keeps meaning to start, and the semesters pass.
A mother and her daughter
A mother wants her daughter taught by a sister, not a brother. In her neighbourhood there are maybe two female Qur'an teachers she knows of. Both have full classes, and neither lives close. So the daughter waits, or she gets taught informally by an older cousin who is not really sure herself.
The Qur'an of our parents
A man has prayed five times a day for forty years. The same short surahs every salah, sometimes only Surah Ikhlas, because that is what he was taught as a boy and never got the chance to add to. Even that with rough tajweed. He thinks about it often. But he has a job, a family, and bills, and going back to sit in a structured class with children is not something he can do.
Every one of these stories are the realites of many muslims in this country. That is the small problem Tilawa is trying to solve. Students wanting to learn; teachers waiting to teach. No travel, no overwhelming fees, and 100% privacy.