Learners Girls Foundation

1.Educational lapses in rural communities ;We observe that most children in rural areas and deprive families could not have access to quality education due to the lockdown of schools and inability to access e-learning platforms online as a result of cost constraint and lack of educational logistics.

2.The Learners Girls Foundation wants to help provide support for children by providing volunteer teaching, mentorship programs and fundraise to purchase educational materials such as books, laptops, create a compendium and e-library for this girls and also introduce them to more advance methods of learning 

3.It will motivate and encourage children to focus on their education through the testimonies and mentorship that will be given by the volunteers. Children having access to modern ways of learning through the e-learning initiative and support with educational materials. Children  will access e-books, PDFs, through our e-library program with a collections of many different categories of books

• In response to accessibility and quality of education amidst the global pandemic, the domestic publishing industry has published numerous online educational materials to satisfy the demand of distance learning, self-spaced learning and of-classroom studies.  Educational articles, pdf’s and books have become the order of the domestic publishing sector with the government of Ghana introducing the online syllabus of 2019-2020 academic year alongside with the restructuring of primary and junior high schools to Basic school (Basic 1-9, Junior High school inclusive). Students transition to use completely e-learning methods amidst Covid-19 have faced so many setbacks such as inadequate accessibility to network devices, poor network connection in rural areas, cost of internet accessibility and others. The media such as TV stations and radio channels employed teaching and learning through their channels to improve on distance learning.

Business oriented publishing companies have embraced the use of online learning to facilitate their programs. This has also contributed to an improved online learning program, even though costly.

The child education and empowerment through mentorship and e-library initiative will be for  children between the ages of 6-18 years. The targeted group of children will be educated and mentored by trained volunteers. The project will also involve purchasing of laptops and other educational materials which will be furnished in a structure  to help children in the rural communities  access tutorials and e-books. The structure will also contain book shelves to store reading books for the children. The structure will be an e-library where children can access electronic educational materials with mentorship and tutoring support of volunteers. Hardcopy books will also be install in the structure for references. The project also involve recruitment of volunteers, creating of a compendium of children writings, seminars, innovative competitions and training of children on STEM especially the technology aspect.

Many young girls in the rural communities cannot further their education or some end up dropping out of school as result of poverty, parental opposition and ignorance of some parents to the importance of inclusive quality education for girls and its impact on the society. Some of the parents do not also enroll girls early enough as a result of household activities; the parents engage the girls to take care of their siblings instead of going to school. These had much effect on girl child education hence leading to teenage pregnancies, school drop outs and social vices. We have plan to implement the volunteer mentorship and tutoring support to help minimize this challenges as well as parents education agenda to enlighten parents on the importance of girl child education. The monitoring approaches we will be using is through our volunteer mentorship reports and girls training and innovation Programs

women and girls continue to be excluded from participating fully in science education and careers.  Girls’ participation in (STEM) subjects in secondary schools and higher education is still lower than that of boys.  In the Upper East Region of Ghana where the project focus on, a gender gap in education persist and fueled by gender stereotypes and expectations regarding girl’s duties at home. There is also a socio-cultural aspect of male domineering power in the society with discrimination to the duties of a female and traditional career options coupled with parental and peer influence.

Learners Girls Foundation is currently undertaking a pilot Learner Guide project in the Upper East region of Ghana. Where students are mentored by volunteers and also given free extra tuition with books collection which our students read.We are currently working with three schools in the community with a total of 300 beneficiaries.

With the recent increase in knowledge of science and technology globally, the access to the internet devices have such as Google clouds, Telegram, WhatsApp, Zoom classes, e-books, online video tutorials and lecture slides, educational pdf’s and power point presentations have thus for promoted accessibility to remote learning and the quality worth recommending. Students to strategically employ the internet and precisely e-books and e-learning to achieve educational and career development success.

CURRENTLY 

It serves 300 students in three schools 

IN ONE YEAR

500 beneficiaries

IN FIVE YEARS

1500 Students

Other monitoring and evaluation activities will be carried by participating through the different committee volunteers formed in the various activities. Progress will be closely monitored through regular field visits to all targeted families and girls involve as the project beneficiaries and reports from our volunteers. Objectives of the project activities will be monitored as to their impact on girls, on the children, on the community including parents, volunteers and on educators including teachers and other care-givers in the context of the STEM Girls Initiative, empowerment, innovation competitions and compliance at community level. Periodic progress reports will be submitted highlighting the progress of project implementation, lessons learned and the course corrections needed to address problems. Annual and mid-term reviews will be organized within a set schedule.

FULL TIME STAFF= 6

PART-TIME/VOLUNTEERS = 30

CONTRACTORS= 4

Learners Girls foundation has six divisions of power;

PUBLISHING ,MEDIA AND IT TEAM; this team comprises of ;an IT specialist, a blogger, graphic designer and a photographer.(these are professionals in the various fields with certificates)

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM; this team comprises of our project coordinator, a teacher and the founder  

THE SECRETARIAT 

THE FINANCE TEAM; this comprises of an accountant and a business administrator who is part-time

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY TEAM; this comprises of an accountant and project coordinator.

Our team is a group of like-minded individuals with the passion of given back to society. we believe in impacting in the lives of others. 

From diverse professional fields ; majority of the team are from four professional sectors; the educational sector(teachers), the IT sector(bloggers, graphic designers) , the health sector and the business sector.

Our solution is to remedy the digital educational lapses in rural communities. With an acceptance of our solution, we will be able to get a learning (library structure )space well equipped   with digital devices.

A well structured e-learning system and other IT systems for coding and python studies.

Technology is needed in this project for the e-learning and other IT studies.

Financial support is highly needed for a digital devices and a learning space (structure). 

Business model; a well developed strategy for our project to make a successful impact.

Ghana Education Service- for support with educational curriculum and others

Ghana Library Authority- support with e-books

MIT initiative- support with a learning management system

We are qualified because we are working to strengthen digital education in rural communities; provide project based learning, equitable access and also mentor students for career development.

Learners Girls Foundation is working to make STEM education especially technological education accessible and equitable to all in rural communities

which goes in line with the areas GM Prize is supporting.

The STEM  Initiative: It involves training of girls in STEM especially the technology aspect . It is to expose the girls to innovative and creative thinking and eliminate the fear they have in Science and Mathematics related subjects. This initiative will target girls in Senior High Schools and girls between the ages of 13-18 years. It will be delivered through seminars, innovative competitions, coding competitions, Girls camps and focus group discussions. The well-equipped and trained volunteers will provide mentorship for this girls in their innovative interest areas. Awards will be given to best performance girls and best innovative girls to help motivate and encourage them. Opportunities will also be created through our partnership with other organizations to expose these girls to other platforms to expand and improve their potentials. This is in line with the focus area of Innovation for Women Prize. 

With the recent increase in knowledge of science and technology globally, the access to the internet devices have such as Google clouds, Telegram, WhatsApp, Zoom classes, e-books, online video tutorials and lecture slides, educational pdf’s and power point presentations have thus for promoted accessibility to remote learning and the quality worth recommending. However, inadequate knowledge on the use of internet devices, negative diversional usage of mobile networking devices coupled with negative media influence, peer pressure and influence have always been the enemy to achieving complete remote learning. The value remains that e-books with other emerging tools as stated earlier have impacted positively on the accessibility and quality of remote learning and has brought STEM fields closer to children in rural areas.

Our team will make available e-learning platforms in rural communities which will go a long way to empower children and reduce poverty in the near future.