NASCO has opened a total of 3 ICT labs and has renovated a fourth. The first two have been: a classroom at the University of Accra and another in Sawla by Promoesport and Fundació Agrícola, respectively. The third has been in Bole with the support of the Sant Quirze del Vallès city council and the fourth has been the renovation of the oldest classroom in the association with Renta Corporación.
The first inauguration took place this past week in the Faculty of Humanities, specifically in the Department of Political Science of this university. Present at the event were Prof. Gordon Awendare, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Dr. Owusu Mensah, Director of Research at the Ghana Office of the Presidency, along with Ousman Umar and Banasco Seidu, co-founders of NASCO Feeding Minds.
This classroom is not only the first classroom that NASCO opens in a higher education center, but it is also the first of these characteristics that the Faculty of Humanities will have. The opening has been possible thanks to Promoesport, an international soccer player representation agency, and almost 5,000 people will be able to access it, including undergraduate, master’s, doctoral students, and other faculty members. Another complementary space will be added to this classroom for research students.
According to the head of the Department, Dr. Seidu Alidu, wants to promote the learning experience through technology to instill in the young generations the skills of tomorrow’s leaders.
The second inauguration has been in Sawla with the opening of the first exclusive computer classroom for girls that the association has. In NASCO, relevance is given to the role of women, ensuring the regular attendance of girls at school and creating projects such as the honey cooperative so that women can have a professional opportunity, thus guaranteeing their economy and independence. This classroom has been opened to give service the Sawla Girls Model JHS, which has 80 girls and has been achieved thanks to the collaboration of the Fundació Agrícola Catalana.
Commited to the philosophy of expansion in rural areas, the third classroom has been opened in Bole and to which the Mempesaem Cluster of Schools will have access. The ceremony was attended by the Honorable Alele Veronica Heming, District Chief Executive of the Bole District, who expressed her gratitude and the importance of digital education to become a global participant in a global world. This new digital education laboratory has been attained thanks to the support of the Sant Quirze City Council and Ateneu del Món, a historic organization in this town that carries out solidarity projects.
Finally, the renovation of the first classroom that the association opened in Sawla in 2012 has been inaugurated. This update has been possible thanks to Renta Corporación.
With these, there are now 17 classrooms that NASCO Feeding Minds has in Ghana, to which a total of 53 schools and 6,600 students per year have access to.
NASCO wants to continue growing and establishing the project throughout the country to give relevance to digital culture in that country. The objective is that young students and future professionals are natives and not digital immigrants and that the digital gap is not a source of greater inequality. In the association’s ten-year history, a total of 66,000 students have been impacted by our digital education project.
