Solar Electrification and Development Project - Accra, Ghana

The mission of our Non-Governmental Organization is to help the many rural schools in Ghana with solar energy as a source of cheap electricity, computers and school accessories for learning.
Our goals and objectives are also to mobilize young women and widows, empower them and increase their resilience through moral support, helping to build their capacities on how to develop themselves.
Our project is designed to help schoolchildren in rural Ghana to receive solar energy system that will provide electricity for lighting, which will enable classes to be taught early in the morning or late at night. Electricity access will facilitate the introduction of ICTs into the classroom such as computers. We also hope to seek assistance and funding to provide technical assistance for solar lights  

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to these needy schoolchildren. However, The SEED Project is not in the position to finance such a project. This is because of the low financial capacity of our organization, and our inability to raise substantial funding for rural development interventions locally.

The project will reach out to schoolchildren in rural areas all over Ghana. We intend targeting all schools lacking electricity for this intervention.

We can ascertain at least five positive benefits related to the electrification of schools:

(1) lighting and extended studying hours,

(2) facilitation of ICT in the classroom,

(3) enhanced staff retention and teacher training,

(4) better school performance based on attendance, completion rates, and Energy and Education test scores, and

(5) co-benefits such as improved sanitation and health, gender empowerment, and community resilience.

Gender empowerment and Resilience of Women

We are also a gender-based organization; we work towards Gender empowerment and Resilience of Women and especially Widows within the northern savannah ecological zone of Ghana.
We are engaged in the mobilization of young women and widows in the above-mentioned zones as part of the strategy to reach out to re-orient them into engagements that are beneficial to them and their families and their communities as a whole.
Our goals and objectives are to mobilize young women and widows, empower them and increase their resilience through moral support, helping to build their capacities on how to develop themselves.
Our vision is to become an effective, efficient self-sustaining and focused-based organization, which formulates gender-based strategies to make young women and widows economically active through various initiatives.