By Betty Obour | Programs Coordinator
See girls building their first web projects
"She had never touched a laptop before. By the end of the program, she was presenting her own web project to an audience, and telling everyone she was going to study Computer Science."
The Moment That Showed Us This Works
That quote is from a facilitator describing one of the young women who came through our August 2024 Frontend Coding Program for Senior High School graduates, a program that ran for two months in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and GIFEC, supported by two Municipal Assemblies. She had enrolled with no technology background. She left with a project, a presentation, and a changed sense of what was possible for her.
That is exactly what the Coding & Digital Skills for 1,000 Girls in Ghana project exists to replicate, at scale, in communities across the country.
What We Have Already Done — Proof the Model Works
While fundraising has been underway, our team has not waited. Using our organizational resources and volunteer network, we have been actively building the evidence base and infrastructure that will power this project when full funding is secured.
August 2024 — Frontend Coding for SHS Girls
In partnership with GES, GIFEC, and two Municipal Assemblies, we ran a two-month hands-on frontend coding program for Senior High School female graduates. Girls with zero technology background learned to build websites, develop digital projects, and present their work competitively. The results exceeded our expectations:
September 2024 — Digital Skills for JHS Graduates
We extended the same model to Junior High School graduates just one month later, reaching approximately 200 young women with foundational digital skills training. This confirmed that the demand for this kind of intervention extends well beyond senior secondary level, and that our facilitation approach works across different age groups and learning backgrounds.
October 2025 — Women in Tech / UI/UX Program
Most recently, we delivered a Women in Tech program in partnership with five universities — UCC, KNUST, UEW, ATU, and GTCU — training 86 female participants in UI/UX Design. The program was facilitated by a specialist volunteer from Prime Academy, our partner organization in Germany, and was delivered both in-person at ATU and online, ensuring accessibility for participants across multiple locations.
86 women. 5 universities. International expertise. Hybrid delivery. This is what the 1,000 Girls project will look like at full scale.
What Your Support Will Unlock
Everything we have done so far has been delivered through our own organizational capacity, partnerships, and volunteer networks. With donor funding, we will:
A Message from the Field
"When we tell girls that coding is for them too, we see something shift in their eyes. They stop seeing technology as something that happens to other people. They start seeing it as something they can do. That shift — that is what we are raising funds to multiply."
Next Steps
Over the coming months we will be finalizing club locations, onboarding facilitators, and launching our first formally funded cohort. Every donation — no matter the size — brings us one step closer to 1,000 girls who will learn to code, build, and lead in Ghana's digital economy.
Thank you for believing in this vision. We will continue to share updates as we grow.
Project page: globalgiving.org/projects/coding-and-digital-skills-for-1000-girls-in-ghana
Website: www.itforyouthghana.org
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
