The organization started with a program called Tech Needs Girls which is a mentorship program to teach girls from 6-18 years how to lead and innovate by learning to code. To scale the impact with the Tech Needs Girls program they started the first coding and human centered design academy in West Africa. Ghana’s unemployment rate continues to worsen, almost doubling to 11.9% in 2015. The World Bank in its latest report on jobs in Ghana estimated that some 48% of youth between the ages of 15-24 did not have jobs. The report confirms that young women are particularly disadvantaged and have much higher inactivity rates than men. While there is no foolproof guarantee to finding jobs, there is significant evidence that digital skills are critical to improving career opportunities and vital to survival in the modern workplace. The organization partnered with Stinsad Consult to provide digital, technical and entrepreneurial support to young women from disadvantaged communities with the hope linking them to employers following extensive training and preparation.

http://www.soronkoacademy.com

• Ghana

• Youth
• Women

We teach girls from 6-18years to code and create technology.