Employable Education for rural Ghanaian Students

As we begin the 2017/18 school academic in year in Ghana this September, there have been new admissions at the various schools across the country and we were happy to catch-up with some of the ‘freshers’ ( first year students) at the computer laboratories.

Their zeal and enthusiasm at the computer laboratory was very encouraging. These are some comments from some of them;

1. ‘My name is Francisca, a first year student studying Fashion and designing. I am so glad to be here to use the computers for the first time; l didn’t get the opportunity to use one at my Junior high school because we didn’t have any computers there. But with this well-resourced, beautiful computer laboratory, I will make the best use of it to become a professional fashion designer.’
2. I am called Loyal, a first year Building Draughtsmanship student. I am very happy to be part of your wonderful support here. With these computers, l believe l can work faster and easier at my department because there are much new software that will make it easy when am designing and building. Thank you very much.

UPDATES FROM MAINTENANCE AND SAFETY WORKSHOPS-(2016/17 ACADEMIC YEAR).

Our first site visits this academic year took us to Prabon JHS and Primary School, Akwaduo JHS and Primary School and Tetrefu ICCES Centre. There was clear evidence of positive impact the ICT training workshops we held last academic year have had.

The ICT teachers can now troubleshoot some basic issues computers often have, and the teachers are even undertaking repairs without the Turing Trust’s intervention. When they can’t repair some of the faults, they provide us with the technical information that we need to speed up the repair work.  With the ICT teachers now armed with knowledge of computer safety and maintenance, coupled with the basic computer troubleshooting and repair skills, the students now have a safe lab, well maintained computer systems, and has been a reduction in the repair work needed to be performed by the Turing Trust.

These projects and all the work of the Turing Trust would not be possible without the generous donations. Thank you very much for everything that has been contributed, we and all of the students are very grateful.

Links:

• http://turingtrust.co.uk/news/catching-up-with-new-students-in-ghana/