Just Skills

Data from UNICEF indicates that many children lack basic numeracy, literacy, STEM, digital and psychosocial skills in a developing country like Ghana. The situation is worsened since textbooks are not available to the poor in government schools after the implementation of the new curriculum in 2019. 

Inadequate access to textbooks and other educational resources have slowed down the teaching and learning of over 5 million basic school students in about 18,000 basic schools in Ghana. Many teachers and students especially those in the 4885 public schools do not have access to adequate, affordable textbooks and are affected the most. 

Therefore, Teachers have to pay huge sums of money to purchase their own textbooks to teach students in public or government schools. 

Based on our discussion with teachers, parents, students and school heads and examining existing textbooks available for the advantaged in private schools, these resources are not well developed to properly address the literacy, numeracy, digital, technical and psychosocial skills of students. 

UNESCO predicts that the livelihood and future of these children are at jeopardy.

UNESCO recommends the provision of well developed resources such as textbooks, apps, e-learning and more to address these issues. 

Also, a Research by the Institute of Green Growth Solutions (2015) on‛‛Climate Change Learning Strategy in Ghana: Background Report′′discovered that although there are many capacity building efforts for climate education in Ghana, there is insufficient knowledge and skill for climate change mitigation across all levels in Ghana. However, the concept of climate change is technical or practical.Therefore the study recommends practical Climate Education for basic schools to universities through teacher education. This recommendation is in line with UNSDG12.8.1 on: Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and(ii)education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed into teacher education ; and student assessment; as well as UNSDG 13-Target 3:To improve education,awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

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We incorporate inspirational Eco-Entrepreneurship stories in books, apps, on tablets and an e-learning platform (community.justcommit.org) that we offer to provide literacy, STEM and psychosocial skills to students. 

Most of our apps were developed using MIT App Inventor. 

Beneficiaries Pay for Harcopy Books or Home Lessons to get access to free e-books, apps and an e-learning platform to improve their literacy and STEM skills. 

Key Activities: 

1. Development of educational resources.

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2. Advertisement of our resources through Google Search Ads and Physical Visit to Schools and Homes.

3. Trial Period: Access to our try our free e-learning, e-books and apps.

4. Order for Harcopy Books and Home Lessons online or phone call.

5. Delivery of Harcopy Books and Home Lessons.

6. Monitoring and Evaluation through Formative and Summative Assessment. 

Beneficiaries also develop psychosocial skills like confidence, creativity and team work through group presentations and drafting eco-businesses. 

Our solution is affordable and serves all whether rich or poor students and teachers in basic schools and beyond. 

The solution will address the access and inequality needs since our textbooks are affordable even for the poor and teachers can have free access to only e-books and apps to teach the poor in government schools who do not have access to these books. 

These resources efficiently  provide the students with literacy, STEM and psychosocial skills as recommended by UNESCO. 

Our Team is made up of passionate members with over 10 years experience in developing educational resources, working with schools, students, teachers and parents in both poor and advantaged communities.

We are established in two cities in Ghana and serve others globally and national through our e-learning platform on community.justcommit.org. 

We are facing financial challenges to gather enough resources for the research and development of the our target 100 books, apps and e-learning platform. 

We are higly optimistic that Solve is efficient and can help connect us to partners who can help us get enough funding resources and non-financial help.

Our school books, apps and e-learning  platform have inspirational business stories themed on Eco-entrepreneurship training to encourage the reuse, reduction, replacement and recycling of waste as part to encourage climate action while providing literacy, STEM and psychosocial skills. 

They are on basic school subjects such as English, Math's, Science, Religious and Moral Education, History and more.

Our resources such as  text books and apps and more are developed based on the basic school curriculum of the Ghana education service and themed on Eco-entrepreneurship. 

Teachers and students will take climate action by creating Eco-friendly

businesses that replace, reduce, reuse and recycle plastic waste to prevent the release of green housegases.

Beneficiaries gain skills in STEM, literacy and how to create business models in environments with limited resources. For example waste such as plastics, paper, scrap metals,e-waste and etc.generated can be be collected to create new, cheap and reusable products for sale.

The project considers the culture of participants by incorporating local language into the story books and into the training and creating business products based on cultural settings.

The ripple effects on the students learning is priceless in terms of whole development of the students who gain vocational, litearcy, STEM and Arts skills to be gainfully employed in the future an avoid poverty.

The solution has helped to the efforts of the organization to help achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4 to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all through the provision of a variety of educational resources such as e-books, e-learning platform and apps accessible to over a million teachers and students.

When students gain vocational, litearcy, STEM and Arts skills, they can be gainfully employed and have access to loans in the future to also help fulfill the UNSDGs 1: Zero Poverty and 8: Decent Job and Economic Empowerment.

Students als gain knowledge and finances that they can be used to support the society at large.

Our books and e-learning platforms have formative assessment at the end of lessons and we do do summative assessment at the end of the use of books yearly from teachers as part of monitoring and evaluation.

We target:
1.UNSDG12: Responsible Consumption and Production especially specific aspects of UNSDG12,Target8.1on: Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are main streamed into teacher education; and student assessment.

2.UNSDG 13-Target 3:To improve education,awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

3. The solution has helped to the efforts of the organization to help achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4 to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all through the provision of a variety of educational resources such as e-books, e-learning platform and apps accessible to over a million teachers and students.

4. When students gain vocational, litearcy, STEM and Arts skills, they can be gainfully employed and have access to loans in the future to also help fulfill the UNSDGs 1: Zero Poverty and 8: Decent Job and Economic Empowerment.

Most of our mobile apps were developed using the MIT App Inventor.

The apps has AI which converts image to text and to speech:

Our e-learning platform (community.justcommit.org) is beign developed in partnership with the Crew for All Platform.

The Full Time Members are four with ten school teachers as volunteers. 

We have been working and developing this particular solution for seven years since 2017. 

Our Core team consist of two females and two males as well as led by a female. Our volunteer teachers consist of the disabled teachers and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds in order ensure diversity and equality instituted in our constitution. 

Our Key resources are: Team, E-books, Hardcopy  Books, E-learning Platform, Apps and Finances.

Key Partnership: Crew4All Platform, Schools, Parents and the Ghana Education Service and Google Ad Grant For Non-profits.

Cost Structure: Cost in Reserach, Development, Publication, Printing and Delivery of Books. 

Key Activities: 

1. Development of educational resources.

2. Advertisement of our resources through Google Search Ads and Physical Visit to Schools and Homes.

3. Trial Period: Access to our try our free e-learning, e-books and apps.

4. Order for Harcopy Books and Home Lessons online or phone call.

5. Delivery of Harcopy Books and Home Lessons.

6. Monitoring and Evaluation through Formative and Summative Assessment. 

Type of Intervention: Harcopy Books are products and Home Lessons are services. 

Channels: Advertisement of our resources through Google Search Ads and Physical Visit to Schools and Homes. 

Surplus: Surplus will be invested into development, publication and printing and  delivery of Books. 

Segments: Parents paying for students.

Revenue Streams: Sale of Hardcopy books and payments from Home Lessons. 

Value Proposition: Pay for Harcopy Books or Home Lessons to get access to free e-books, apps and an e-learning platform and improve your literacy and STEM skills. 

To ensure finncial sustainability we are generating revenue from the sale of harcopy Books and Home Lessons.