SITUATIONAL NEEDS
Teacher Training
The Ministry of Education recognizes the lack of teacher training, monitoring, and licensing. OneSeed recognizes the gap of quality education between students in the richest and poorest wealth quintiles is due to a lack of qualified and equipped teachers. Teacher training has been approached on a short-term basis with little follow-through and accountability.
"22% of primary school teachers in government schools, and 70% of primary school teachers in private schools in Ghana are not licensed."
-Ghana Ministry of Education Reform 2018
“71% of children from the richest quintile complete upper secondary education, only 9% of children from the poorest quintile do so.”
-Ghana Education Fact Sheets 2020-UNICEF
“According to the Foundational Learning module, only 7% of children in the third grade students meet the expected reading skills for that grade, 8% of children have expected numeracy skills.”
-Ghana Ministry of Education Reform 2018
Cultural Education
OneSeed recognizes that the world is continually growing more interconnected. Therefore, we believe that education that is rooted in global exchange, and promotes an international perspective, will prepare our future generation to work in collaboration with one another from all corners of the earth. Our aim is to create globally-minded citizens of the world, peace-advocates, and unprejudiced, collective change-makers, by building relationships and encouraging exchange, acceptance, and open communication between schools communities.
We recognize UN's Quality Education-Sustainability Goal #4,
and intend to help advance this goal through our programs.
“By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.”
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Human Trafficking Awareness
Many adults and children fall victim to human trafficking every day. Families, educators, and students are not educated on the warning signs of human trafficking and usually fall victim because the perpetrators have promised them a better life outside of poverty. OneSeed's Emerging Voices Project, in partnership with City Hearts Africa, will help prevent human trafficking in communities.
According to International Justice Mission (IJM), thousands of children in Ghana work in the fishing industry on Lake Volta, and many of these children are held in slavery. Children as young as three are enslaved in the fishing industry, forced to do hard and dangerous work to earn a profit for their masters.
"About one-third of children aged 5 to 17 years are engaged in some form of child labor, and the rates for boys and girls are similar."
-Ghana Education Fact Sheets 2020-UNICEF
Technology
Although all schools are required to teach the National Curriculum for Computing, a large majority of students, especially in basic school, across Ghana do not have access to technology devices at school. Lack of exposure to ICT education creates a gap between students in the poorest and richest wealth quintiles. Students who have not had the privilege of ICT in schools are left unprepared to enter into the college setting or working field.
“About 12% of 15 to 24-year old's reported engaging in a form of ICT activity in the three months prior to the survey, and more than twice as many males as females reported doing so. An extremely small share of youth from the poorest quintile undertook any ICT activity, whereas 29 percent from the richest quintile did so.”
-Ghana Education Fact Sheets 2020-UNICEF
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Menstrual Hygiene Education
Many girls in Ghana and across the world miss up to 4 months of their academic school year due to a lack of menstrual hygiene education and access to sanitary items. In a survey completed at our partner school, 94% of girls ages 12-16 said they want to learn more about mensuration. Girls often fall behind in their subjects which can lead to not completing school and difficulty transitioning into the workplace.
We recognize UN's Quality Education-Sustainability Goal #4, and Gender Equality Goal #5 and we intend to help advance these goals through the Sisterhood program.