Before joining EduSpots, I didn’t know that you could be in a “room” in an online space; now, I’m hosting Zoom sessions on safeguarding for headteachers across the district.
(Hamidu Kaadri, Headteacher, Yamfo Spot)
Ghana Statistical Service reported that 5.1 million people aged 6+ were digitally excluded in the three months before the 2021 census (no ICT device use) and 31.4% did not use the internet in that period.
The 2021 Girl Child thematic brief further reports that almost 1.6 million girls aged 6 to 17 did not use any ICT device in the three months preceding census night.
This combination of low foundational learning outcomes, inconsistent access to learning support and unequal access to digital tools creates an urgent need for inclusive, low-data approaches that improve learning outcomes at scale and deliberately reach underserved and marginalised groups.
EduSpots’ experience mirrors this reality.
In Dulugu, in rural Bolgatanga, participation in digital literacy rose from 2 of 20 girls able to turn on a laptop to every member confidently using one and gaining essential technology skills.
The barrier was not willingness: it was access.
Across the 50 communities where EduSpots operates, approximately 90% in rural areas, access to personal digital devices, computers and reliable internet is limited or non-existent.
As a result:
Learners have little exposure to digital tools.
Volunteer educators are constrained in delivering interactive learning.
Online safety risks increase as parents struggle to catch up with digital norms.
I’ve heard about Microsoft PowerPoint and have seen my lecturers use it during lectures. I love the images and the entire graphics; I just don’t know how to create one.
(Muniru, teacher, Ejura)
The urgency of addressing this gap has been recognised nationally. Speaking at a UNESCO workshop in April 2023, Prof. Edward Appiah, Director-General of NaCCA, emphasised Government efforts to strengthen digital learning frameworks and expand infrastructure are ongoing, alongside the significant digital access work of the Ghana Library Authority (GLA). EduSpots’ partnership with the GLA reflects this shared commitment to expanding community-based digital opportunity.
“ICT skills are no longer an optional extra in our education system.”
A parent in Abofour, gaining access to digital tools for the first time.
As education systems increasingly integrate technology, digital access and skills are critical to ensuring no learner is left behind. Without practical exposure to digital learning, learners risk exclusion from opportunities essential for future education, employment and participation in a rapidly changing world.
The need is urgent, but it is also solvable.
With the right partnerships, community-based digital access can provide immediate, scalable and sustainable impact, enabling all communities to create the futures they want to see.
EduSpots: a digitalised, community-led education network operating across 11 regions of Ghana
50
Spots
Across 11 regions of Ghana and Kenya in underserved communities.
trained Catalysts
35% have been with EduSpots for 2 years or longer.
Sparks in Clubs 2809
KG-B9, more than 50% are female,
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Learners using Spots
Borrowing books, using digital tools, and gaining mentorship
Partner NGOs 30+
Engaging in our participatory model via Communities of Pracitce.
Our work is led by communities; equipping local leaders and learners with the skills, tools and confidence to thrive. More than 25% of Catalysts have served three years or longer, demonstrating exceptional retention and leadership resilience.
Our model blends digital innovation with indigenous knowledge and collaborative learning, ensuring education reflects local cultures, languages and priorities. As AI reshapes work and knowledge, EduSpots ensures the future of learning is locally led, inclusive and future-ready.
Had I not taken part in the Canva training, I would not have had the skills to support my community in responding to a crisis situation.
EduSpots Digital Futures is our flagship solution to Ghana’s growing digital inequity. By combining community leadership with strengthened and sustainable digital infrastructure, Digital Futures provides learners and communities with meaningful, long-term access to technology and digital skills. Through Digital Futures, we:
Embed community-led digital learning, ensuring it is culturally relevant, sustainable and age-appropriate.
Equip Catalysts with leadership and digital skills via EduBytes a certified monthly training programme with modules including Generative AI for Classrooms, Canva, Google Workspace, CapCut, ChatGPT, LinkedIn profile development, CV support and Digital Storytelling
Build digital and literacy skills for Basic 3-6 learners through DigiLit Clubs, fostering collaborative skills in primary education ecosystems.
Expand shared tablet and device access across 50 community-owned learning hubs.
Strengthen safeguarding and online safety through the Keeping Spots Safe (KSS) strand, with locally led protection systems.
Transform pedagogy to be more inclusive, interactive, and culturally relevant through integrated digital learning.
This is not a short-term technology distribution programme. It is long-term digital capacity building, creating the infrastructure, skills and confidence that communities need to thrive in a rapidly digitalising world.
“The programme gave me more than skills, it
-Hamidu Kaadri, Catalyst and Peer Mentor
gave me vision, confidence, and a community.”
Digital capacity building is a core pillar of everything we do, not an add-on. EduSpots ensures that learning is relevant, inclusive, locally owned and measurable through:
• Digital tools: tech kits, tablets, laptops, projectors, WiFi
• Digital platforms: EduSpots App, WhatsApp Channels & YouTube Edu-Animations
• In-person digital skills training: for learners, Catalysts, parents and wider educators
• DigiLit Clubs (upper primary): building early digital literacy and confidence
Our Impact in 2025
• Project based learning: monthly digital challenges embedded across learning hubs
• Digital Futures Certificates: Bite-sized certificates, with weekly sessions and tasks.
• Access and inclusion support: devices, data, and connectivity solutions
“The shift towards more learner- centred, inclusive, and practical teaching methods has transformed school-based pedagogy, making education more relevant and engaging for students.” -(Expectation State, Independent Evaluation, 2025)
or more levels. (ASER, 2025)
(ImpactEd, 10 Month Study, 2025)
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10 Month Study, 2024)
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Catalysts
10 month study, 2025)
Our approach embeds robust safeguarding systems across every Spot ensuring children, volunteers and communities are protected, empowered and accountable. Keeping Spots Safe (KSS) is our bold, community-rooted initiative that reimagines safeguarding as collective care rather than institutional control. It empowers learners, Catalysts and families to challenge harmful norms and co-create inclusive, emotionally safe learning spaces through storytelling, play and peer mentorship.
Safety is not treated as compliance alone, it is a locally-driven foundation for sustainable, community-led impact.
Watch our latest Edu-Animation tackling online safety , one many culturally rooted stories designed to solve local problems:
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Images capture online safety sessions with local parents in Ejura, and learners creating Digital Footprint Manifestos in Abofour.
“My
vision is to create a dynamic space where Sparks are equipped with essential digital skills to thrive and lead in a changing world.”
Jephta Oppong, Catalyst, Aboabo No.4 Spot
At Aboabo No 4 Spot, EduSpots has transformed learning into an interactive, collaborative experience. Students and teachers gain digital and environmental skills, using tablets for coding, research and creative projects.
These tools also support EcoSTEM initiatives, helping students track environmental projects and become community advocates. Structured digital training equips every student for a tech-driven future, making learning engaging, personalized and future-ready.
When shared tablets were introduced during the DigiLit Monthly Challenges:
“Using tablets helped us learn together and believe in ourselves.”
— Spark, Aboabo No.4 Spot
For many learners, this was their first opportunity to use digital technology in a safe, supportive, community-led environment.
The takeaway:
Access to shared digital devices, delivered through a community-led model, builds more than skills. It builds confidence, agency and momentum that extends beyond the classroom.
I have been working with education and community development NGOs in Ghana for almost 25 years and EduSpots stands out for the quality of its work, the creativity of its model and the integrity of its people.
- Sally Vivyan, Co-Director, Gower Street Trust
10+ years of trusted, community-led education expertise in Ghana and beyond.
EduSpots App enables Catalysts to run Spots safely with real-time MEL tracking and reporting
Winner, 2025 Theirworld Education Innovation Scale-Up Award
Proven partnership principles: community-led, long-term, flexible, outcome-focused
Supported by the following partners among others:
Outstanding and trusted leadership:
Professor Elsie Effah Kaufmann
Celebrated QuizMistress and Dean of the School of Engineering Sciences at University of Ghana (Patron)
Emeritus Professor Gloria Agyemang
Previous Executive Dean at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway (Global Chair of Trustees)
Delivers meas urable contributions to SDGs 4, 5, 8, 13 and corporate ESG priorities
Strong social media presence and internationally recognized campaigns with BBC News coverage
Dr. Richard Amoah
Head of Research at Education
Sub Saharan Africa (Chair of Ghana Board of Directors)
Global Teacher Prize Finalist and UNESCO Youth For Peace Young Leader - (Chief Executive Officer)
In short: decade-long expertise, award-winning innovation, and community-driven reach to deliver real, measurable impact.
We work with organisations whose values align with digital transformation, education and skills development. Partnerships are flexible and tailored to your priorities. They can be financial, technologyled, skills-based, resource-focused, or a combination; structured as short-term pilots or longer-term strategic collaborations.
Partners can choose one or multiple avenues, or create blended models, to deliver measurable, sustained impact while aligning with CSR, ESG and skills-development priorities.
Digital & Resource
Skills & Expertise Strategic & Collaborative
Strategic investment to strengthen and sustain EduSpots’ Digital Futures, expand tablet access and strengthen community learning hubs
Unlocks immediate digital access for thousands of learners and sustains community hubs
Device donations, digital resources, data packages and connectivity solutions
Catalyst leadership and digital capacity training; digital mentoring and coaching
Research collaboration, strategic advice, co-branded literacy or digital learning campaigns
Through these avenues, partners can contribute to closing the digital divide, equipping young people with future-ready skills and creating measurable, sustained impact in communities across Ghana.
Currently, each Spot has access to just 2 tablets, with DigiLit learners clustered in groups of up to 15. Your support enables them to transform their learning outcomes.
Provides learners and Catalysts with the tools needed to engage, collaborate and build digital skills
Builds local capacity, enhances learning outcomes and strengthens long-term sustainability
Amplifies programme reach, improves content quality and enhances community engagement
Through EduSpots Digital Futures, a corporate partner could combine:
Funding 20 DigiLit clubs across the network this year, embedding digital learning, on track to reach 40 by 2026
Measurable gains in digital confidence and employability.
Skills-based volunteering where staff guide Catalysts to develop hands-on digital capabilities through Digital Futures.
Providing technical expertise to strengthen the EduSpots App or digital content.
Meaningful employee engagement.
A credible, communityembedded ESG story grounded in sustained impact, not one-off intervention
Manaf is one of 2800 learners annually that enrol in EduSpots’ digitalised future-ready education clubs, with more than 10% of learners becoming Catalysts.
EduSpots invites Ghanaian companies to invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures, our flagship initiative accelerating community-led digital inclusion across Ghana, with plans to grow from 50 to 100 Spots in 2026-2027.
Through the Corporate Partnerships Circle, Ghanaian businesses can contribute directly to expanding and sustaining this national digital education network.
Each tier reflects a different level of strategic investment and engagement.
Network-wide digital skills and EdTech transformation.
Flagship strategic partnership.
Senior leadership engagement; prominent brand positioning; bespoke impact reporting; recognition at major events. Sustain Partner
Improving digital skills, device access and online safety for 1000+ learners.
Enabling a cluster of Spots to access digital tools, resources & training.
Enabling one Spot to have access to digital tools, resources & training.
Join online Quarterly Conversations; strong brand visibility; staff engagement opportunities; recognition across digital and in-person platforms.
Structured impact summaries; recognition in annual and impact reports; digital acknowledgement; event invitations.
Annual Digital Futures impact summary; partner listing; acknowledgement in selected communications.
Through the EduSpots Corporate Partnerships Circle, your organisation becomes a strategic partner in building inclusive digital futures, ensuring that technological progress translates into shared opportunity across Ghana.
As Ghana’s economy accelerates toward digital transformation, digital skills are no longer optional, they are essential for employability, entrepreneurship and economic participation.
Yet in underserved rural communities, where 90% of EduSpots’ learners live, access to devices, connectivity and structured digital learning remains limited.
By investing in EduSpots’ Digital Futures, Ghanaian companies can:
Strengthen the future workforce by equipping learners with digital confidence and employable skills
Advance digital inclusion across 11 regions, enabling all communities to create the futures they want to see.
Support a sustainable, community-owned education model, empowering Catalysts and local leaders to deliver long-term impact
This is not short-term CSR. It is a strategic investment in Ghana’s human capital and digital future.
By joining the Circle, your organisation becomes a strategic partner in strengthening inclusive digital education, shaping a future where technology empowers every learner and community.
We welcome the opportunity to explore how your organisation can play a defining role in building Ghana’s digital future and demonstrate leadership in global social impact.
Invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures
EduSpots invites forward-thinking organisations to invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures, our flagship initiative accelerating community-led digital inclusion across Ghana, with plans to grow from 50 to 100 Spots in 2026-2027.
Digital Futures is not a short-term project. It is a scalable digital infrastructure model embedded across 50 communityowned learning hubs, powered by 400+ locally trained volunteer educators.
Through the Corporate Partnerships Circle, organisations can contribute directly to the expansion, strengthening and long-term sustainability of this national digital access network. Each tier represents a different level of strategic investment and engagement.
National-scale expansion, innovation pilots and long-term system strengthening within Digital Futures
Multi-community implementation and programme growing across regions
Flagship strategic partnership. Co-designed initiatives aligned with corporate priorities; executive roundtables; thought-leadership collaboration; prominent cross-platform brand positioning; bespoke impact dashboards; direct engagement with community and national stakeholders.
Strategic programme alignment; quarterly performance reporting; senior engagement opportunities; brand visibility across digital and print platforms; participation in campaign initiatives.
Targeted regional delivery, digital device access or thematic programme support
Direct contribution to digital devices, DigiLit Clubs, and learner
Structured impact summaries; recognition in annual reporting; digital acknowledgement; invitations to selected events and briefings.
Annual Digital Futures impact summary; partner listing; invitations to partner updates and selected engagements.
Through the Corporate Partnerships Circle, your organisation contributes to strengthening Ghana’s future workforce pipeline, ensuring that digital transformation includes, rather than excludes, the communities most at risk of being left behind.
Investing in EduSpots’ Digital Futures is an investment in:
INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION:
helping communities access the tools, skills, and opportunities essential for education, employment, and entrepreneurship
YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
helping communities access the tools, skills, and opportunities essential for education, employment, and entrepreneurship
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN A DIGITAL ERA:
building sustainable, locally owned digital learning infrastructure
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND SHARED RESPONSIBILITY:
enabling your organisation to advance international development priorities, ESG goals and cross-border social impact
This is not short-term CSR. It is a strategic investment in Ghana’s human capital and digital future.
By joining the Circle, your organisation becomes a strategic partner in strengthening inclusive digital education, shaping a future where technology empowers every learner and community.
We welcome the opportunity to explore how your organisation can play a defining role in building Ghana’s digital future and demonstrate leadership in global social impact.
This is my first time using a tablet. The experience cannot easily be forgotten due to the “talking” Alexa. I believe if students have the opportunity to use these kinds of devices, learning will be much easier and fun and many students will be dropping to the Spot.
(Alhassan Ragadawu, EcoSTEM Club Spark in Kalpohin, Tamale)
Want to join us in shaping #OurCollectiveFuture?
Email our CEO, Cat Davison at cdavison@eduspots.org or contact our Fundraising Coordinator Priscilla Baffour on +233 54 523 3368 or pbaffour@eduspots.org
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