By Jean Fairbairn | EIFL Communications Manager
Anna, aged 16, who goes to school in Volta Region, Ghana, is one of 500,000 children who have just completed writing the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E.). Now the nervous wait for exam results begins.
Children who pass the B.E.C.E. qualify to enter secondary school. Poorer families cannot afford to keep their children at school, and so failure means children leave school early.
Anna says she is confident that she will pass - thanks to you!
For the past three years Anna has been attending her regional library’s hands-on computer classes. With your support, mobile libraries in four regions of Ghana travel to 17 under-resourced schools bringing solar-charged laptop computers and modem internet to give over 3,000 children practical experience of computers and the internet. To help children cope with the lack of textbooks, the computers have been preloaded with educational content related to the school curriculum.
Anna has good reason to be confident. Last year, 81% of children who took part in the library’s hands-on computer classes passed ICT in the B.E.C.E. So good luck Anna - to you, your classmates and the thousands of other children who have just written this crucial exam!
Through your donations, we’ve raised another US$3,850. In May we sent the mobile regional libraries almost US$1,000 each to support the hands-on computer classes. Thank-you again for your generosity.
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