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In the first quarter of 2025, Achievers Ghana had the honour of hosting a life-changing 4-day STEM Trek program at its Learning Center in Nima, Accra. This program was powered by the energy,…
Today, April 24, 2025, Achievers Ghana proudly celebrated International Girls in ICT Day under the global theme “Girls in ICT for Inclusive Digital Transformation.” This year’s event stood out not…
On Thursday, Achievers Ghana had the great privilege of welcoming a team of vibrant and industrious ladies from BPS to our Learning Center in Accra. Their visit, which formed part of BPS’s…
Achievers Ghana, with sole sponsorship from the KGL Foundation and the support of Honourable Iddie Kofi Adams, Member of Parliament for Buem Constituency, successfully organized a 3-day Girls In…
Achievers Ghana, with the support of the KGL Foundation, successfully conducted a 3-day intensive STEM training at Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) in Tamale, Northern Region. The program aimed…
Achievers Ghana Launches the Training for Trainers Bootcamp Achievers Ghana has officially launched the Training for Trainers Bootcamp, a transformative program designed to empower young girls…
Providing exposure to educational and societal issues is essential for broadening the horizons of young girls and helping them focus on their journey towards success. On Wednesday, Achievers Ghana…
Today, Achievers Ghana had the honour of hosting Lieke Van Dijk, our new volunteer from the Netherlands, who joined us through the support of Projects Abroad. As part of her introduction, Lieke…
Achievers Ghana is a non-governmental, non-religious and non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting education and girl’s empowerment in Ghana. The organization has been operating in…
Each year, Global Fund for Children gives out the Maya Ajmera Sustainability Award. Name after founder Maya Ajmera, the award is granted to partners who exemplify exceptional success and…
Source: myjoyonline Social enterprise as a concept is playing a key role in society. At the center of social enterprise is the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation. Over a long period of…
THANK YOU! Achievers Ghana received three (3) new computer laptops from Urooj, a multi-national company, to support our Girls in ICT program and has officially announced its fully support to our…
On Thursday, December 16, 2021, Achievers Ghana was privileged to join United Way Ghana on its Community Builders Award Nights. At the event, Achievers Ghana was recognized, appreciated, and…
Reported by myjoyonline KGL Foundation has launched a partnership deal with Achievers Ghana in Nima. The partnership, which was kick-started with the renovation of the Achievers Community Learning…
An annual event organized by Bountiful STEEM Educational Center in celebration of International Day for a Girl Child was represented by Achievers Ghana with 80 girls from deprived communities in…
African educators help uplift children – CNN Video
We wish Achievers Ghana community members, donors, staffs and friends around the world a happy and healthy New Year – 2021! As we reflect upon the year, we are grateful for our terrific…
Ghana Philanthropy Awards 2020 to Achievers Ghana for its outstanding philanthropic intervention which transformed many lives and positively impacted society as a contribution to the development…
DONATE NOW! Dear friends and love ones, Greetings from girls of Achievers Ghana as we all move towards the end of 2020 and embrace the promise of a brand new year. We hope this finds you well,…
Vote Here Africa Youth Award has announced its shortlisted nominees for the 2020 edition of the Pan African awards scheme that honours inspirational young Africans who are championing the…
This Giving Tuesday was our most successful ever. The money raised will help to ensure that we can support girls and children who are impacted by Covid-19. It will also help us to build better…
DONATE NOW Only few hours left for your gift to be matched Any gift you give to the Achievers Ghana today will be matched – up to $ 1 million – to help empower girls education and help…
DONATE NOW! This #GivingTuesday your gift to Achievers Ghana will be matched by GlobalGiving, up to $1,000,000. Your donation support our urgent work to keep girls learning during school…
The COVID-19 global pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to countries around the world. In a span of six months, millions are infected and over 712,236 deaths recorded worldwide, the…
Challenging tradition, Leading Change, Fighting for a better world. That is what the girls in Achievers Ghana are doing. In the communities they come from, men have made the rules. Women and girls…
Achievers Ghana on 23rd April, 2020 launched its COVID-19 Response Initiative in the area of children’s education which is in line with SDG 4 entitled COVID-19 Home Literacy Project with the…
32 girls from Al-Waleed Comprehensive Basic School at Kanda Ruga in the East Ayawaso Constituency Ghana benefited from One Day Workshop on Life Skills organized by Achievers Ghana with the support…
Watch the video: Achievers Ghana Introduces Basic Arduino Uno Technology to 320 Girls at Ayarifa Presbyterian Basic School.
In celebration of International World Literacy Day, Worldreader in partnership with the Ministry of Education launched the National Reading Day on 25th September at the British Council –…
Achievers Ghana attended a two (2) Day Workshop on Child Protection organized by Welfare of Children and Youth Association – Ghana. Child Protection is a critical issue and needs critical…
DreamOval Foundation in collaboration with Achievers Ghana is pleased to present the Females In Tech Initiative (FemITI) to introduce 200 girls in Nima to programming and Robotics. FemITI is a…
United Way Ghana in collaboration with Achievers Ghana organised this year’s International Literacy Day 2018 at Maamobi – Kawukudi, Accra. This year’s celebration was on the…
After School Coding Program Children grow up in a society that demands expertise in everything. You cannot sit back and decide that learning from textbooks is enough for the overall development…
Watch the video: Achievers Ghana Performance at the World Children’s Day.
On World Children’s Day on November 20 – the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – children raised their voices in solidarity with the world’s most disadvantaged and…
Imagine a nation with a coding generation? Young kids, adults and youth, using core analytical skills to solve problems, build industry and reduce inequality in Ghana. Coding is the literacy of…
Educating girls is essential to the advancement of a nation. This is not just about a few people’s lives (although it should matter just as much if it were), what Achievers is doing is going…
A total of 468,053 are expected to sit for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which begins today [Monday] across the country. The Ghana Education Service Speaking to Citi News, the…
Alhamdulillah, we are truly blessed to have reached another month in which our good deeds are multiplied manifold. This year 350 girls from slum communities are under scholarship and girl’s…
On 23rd April, 2017, Achievers Ghana climaxed its Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) event with an educational forum on the theme “Promoting Basic Education in the Zongo Communities”. The goal…
RYTHM Foundation (RF), through its partnership with Worldreader, funded an e-reader project for Achievers Ghana by sponsoring 50 Kindle e-readers immaculately pre-loaded with 100 books. The…
Achievers Ghana is extremely honored to received such an important award, The Most Outstanding NGO in the Nima Excellence Award (NEA) -2016. Nima Excellence Award (NEA) is an annual award program…
Mentoring, at its core, guarantees young people that there is someone who care about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges, and makes them feel like they…
Habiba Mudansiru sharing her story.
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Most women and girls in the slums of Accra, do not often get the necessary support that is required from their families or community to gain an education. Some of these girls who were lucky to…
Meeting and hearing from individual role models that girls can relate to is invaluable in sparking their interest in various careers. Achievers Ghana had the privileged of meeting Mr. Rob Short, a…
We believe that one way of making a girl child from the slum community phenomenal is to give her the opportunity to explore, experience, appreciate different environment and cultural backgrounds.…
Achievers Ghana in collaboration with Center for Development Initiative (CDI) as part of their core objectives in ensuring the safety and protection of a girl child, organised a community…
A youth and drama concert Titled” Breaking the Myth” made up of children from three organizations in the Greater Accra region Sunday night held music and poetry lovers spellbound with a…
Alhamdulillah, we are truly blessed to have reached another month in which our good deeds are multiplied manifold. This year 36 of our girls will graduate JHS. If they are to continue their…
In November 2014 Worldreader launched the first community E-Library in West Africa at Achievers Ghana. 25 e-reader devices with 120 books each. Since then the girls at Achievers have been using…
Teaching girls in the slums to use technology to advocate, connect and increase awareness of key issues affecting them will constantly help change their well-being for better. It will also…
What a delight it was for the deprived girls in the Ghana slums when they learnt that, Global Fund for Children (GFC) included Achievers Ghana into their grant sponsorship list. This means more…
As part of the BBC’s Young, Geeky and Black series looking at black coders, Bola Mosuro travelled to Ghana to meet women and girls being taught to code by a non-profit group, the Achievers…
On 21st September, Achievers Ghana joined the rest of the world to celebrate “Peace One Day” on the theme “Reducing Domestic Violence.” The day was commemorated in a huge…
Is another academic year again and Achievers Ghana as usual has been given another opportunity to send girls from Achievers to write exams in order to qualify for full scholarship for the…
Achievers Ghana is extremely pleased with our gradually increasing list of corporate sponsors as we welcome the Leading Ladies' Network as one. With their support, at least five new girls will…
Yesterday the world celebrated the Day of the African Child, which commemorates the massacre of hundreds of children in South Africa who were demonstrating for their basic right to education.…
Our 16-year old co-founder and Deputy Director, Amina Ismail Daru, shared her story at the recent TEDx Spintex Women held at the British Council on May 30th. As she spoke about her traumatic…
We were very excited to once more contribute on national tv to discussions on empowering the girl-child in slum communities thanks to Mrs Acolatse Apaloo, hostess of Women's Voice. Congratulations…
On May 14th, we had the opportunity to interact with members of the Leading Ladies Network at a cocktail event held at the Hub Accra. Yawa Hansen-Quao, the founder and Director of the Leading…
We were recently featured on CNN! The Achievers are indeed coding their way to the brightest future possible through the tech needs girls program with Soronko Solution!
People always ask precisely what we do every evening at Achievers. Well, every evening, over 60 girls troop into the center to participate in discussion sessions, public speaking seminars, writing…
“This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite…
Our 15-year-old co-founder, Amina Ismail Daru, has been known to say that her biggest challenge is empowering the minds of girls who come to Achievers (changing their mentalities about the role…
Achievers Book Club has officially renamed itself to Achievers Ghana! It was with great honor and joy to witness our Director and co-founder, Amadu Mohammad, unveil this new identify and logo...…
2014 was a year of substantial growth for the Achievers. With the help of our generous donors and supporters, large and small, we were able to provide an additional 136 scholarships for girls from…
On 5th of January we were honoured to have Jemila Abdulai, founder of Circumspecte, spend the evening with the girls. Circumspecte contributed significantly towards our fundraising activities…
This November we were able to host volunteers from Alcatel - Lucent through a collaboration with tech needs girls. The event themed " You can also make it!" was a platform for these volunteers to…
The “voices of youth manifesto” is calling for the government to design and implement strategies to prohibit forced and early marriages among young women in the country. Taking appropriate actions…
It's stories like Muhina's that inspire us to continue doing what we do: ensuring that girls in slum communities are equally empowered through education. 13-year-old Muhina Sullaman was enrolled…
Today, Achievers Ghana met with over 60 parents from the community. The goal was to discuss objectives for the upcoming year, 2015, with the parents, who are all key stakeholders in the…
It was another exciting Saturday for the 60 Achievers who visited the Kakum National Park in Ghana's Central Region last weekend. Since inception of Achievers Ghana, excursions have been a core…
As if sponsoring over 150 girls this school year isn't enough success story for Achievers, Worldreader's very first community based e-library program in Ghana has been launched at Achievers. This…
Today ABC appeared on GTV's famous Breakfast show to discuss how slum communities can be transformed through circular education. We were invited as a result of our work and success in promoting…
In partnership with Projects Abroad, a leadership and empowerment program is being launched at Achievers to mentor our girls. Activities are held in sessions every Tuesday to Thursday from 9am…
We are pleased to announce that two new ABC girls (Olivia and Latifah) have received full scholarships from Rising Sun Montessori (Dome). These girls join Amina, Muna, Aisha and Afsa at Rising Sun…
Nine girl were sponsored by Achievers in a peer counselling mentorship workshop organized by Rayuwa Foundation at the Ghana Lebanon Senior High School. Rayuwa Foundation aims at improving the…
We are extremely pleased to announce our first Corporate Sponsor - Oasis Capital. Oasis Capital is a private equity firm right here in Accra. We know this is only the first of many others…
Today, Achievers received donations from the Circumspecte 2014 Ramadan Fundraiser. This means that more than 7 new girls in Nima will get to go to school this coming September. Besides the…
Achievers was pleased to once again participate in the Ghana Islamic Tournament. This year, events were held from the 6th to the 21st of June. This was the 2nd tournament since inception last…
Achievers celebrated their 3rd anniversary this Saturday, 3rd May, themed Investing in Girls - A catalyst for changing the world. Present were the Imams of Abu Ubaida and several mosques in the…
Achievers held its first forum this year on the theme Sanitation for All, All for Sanitation with about 195 students, parents and community leaders from Ahlussuna in attendance. The goal was to…
Our very own Amadu Mohammed (Director and co-founder of Achievers Book Club) was a proud recipient of the MTN Heroes for Change award this evening. Amadu was nominated for 3 of the 5 categories,…
Today, 60 girls at Achievers learnt to code during the tech needs girls event organized by Soronko Solutions. The goal of tech needs girls (founded by Regina Agyare) is to empower girls through…
ABC received 4 full scholarships from the Rising Sun Schools (Dome). Amina and three other promising student from Nima and Maamobi communities. Our sincere thanks goes out to Mr Patrick Acheampong…
The Achievers Book is very happy to have received 2 additional computers this week. The two nice HP desktop computers were kindly donated by FWG African Foods, a Brazilian food company based with…
Today the Achievers Book Club received a visit from Jazi Foundation's (Netherlands) co-founder, Robert Boogaard, and Rising Sun Schools CEO, Patrick Acheampong. Although it was only a short…
The Achievers Book Club is proud to announce that today ABC's co-founder, Amina Ismeal, was nominated for the World Children's Peace Prize. The children nominated for 2012 are Amina (15) from…
