Employable Education for rural Ghanaian Students

Hello all,

We hope this message finds you well and enjoying your summer!

We would like to take this opportunity to give you an update on how we are beginning to use the funds raised in the Global Giving campaign you generous folk made such a success. As the Turing Trust projects are so varied, we will be using these funds over an extended period for numerous causes under our support and thus this will be the first report of many.

As many of you may know from our Newsletter updates and Facebook page, we had an incredible week of IT and data training with 51 students in early July funded and run by our friends at data analytic company BIPB. The training was such a success that many of the teachers that attended have gone on to carry out further mini trainings for those students unable to attend.

This amazing work has culminated in a plan to undertake a much larger training in the Ashanti region for another 30 students at the beginning of this new school year. The Global Giving funds that you donated will enable our students, teachers and trainers, to come together for a three day intensive IT and beginner coding training, supported by a visiting Computer Science graduate volunteer from the UK. We are so excited to be able to give more students a more in depth understanding of IT and for them to realise their potential. We also hope to inspire our teachers to think outside the box when it comes to their IT classes.

We are also excited to announce that due to the increasing influx of computer donations in the last 6 months, we are on the verge of our next shipment of equipment out to Ghana. In March we sent 392 computers and laptops and it's looking like we are set to beat our own record once again. Until this shipment arrives however we are going to use your Global Giving donations to undertake two more computer lab installations in the Cape Coast region. We have an unfortunate shortage of computer monitors and thus will need to purchase these in Ghana in order to stick to our development plans and give 100 more students access to IT.

These projects will make a huge impact on the skills, experince and confidence of all 130 students involved. Not only this but from our observations of Ghanaian generosity and dedication so far, we are certain that this will have an effect on many, many more students and teachers in the months to follow. 

Once again, thank you all for being a part of the Turing Trust journey and helping to influence the future of students in rural Ghana.

All the best,

The Turing Trust Team

P.S. please don't hesitate to get in touch with any comments and queries via jade@turingtrust.co.uk