From a Few Schools to Hundreds: Why We’re Investing in Teachers

For the past several years, our after-school literacy program has been a beautiful and powerful piece of our work. We’ve watched young women, recent high school graduates, step into leadership, grow their confidence, and help hundreds of children fall in love with learning. But this year, we’re making a bold shift.

We’re transitioning from a program that reaches a few schools… to one that could reach hundreds.

Up until now, we've been able to support six literacy interns at a time to teach at three schools. The model has been meaningful, but also expensive and difficult to scale. Now, we’re channeling what we’ve learned into something far more expansive: training teachers already in the system to bring these methods into their own classrooms, and spread them to their peers.

We’ll be launching a Rural Teachers Learning Hub that will train 100 teachers each year, impacting over 20,000 children annually across 100 rural schools. Over the next five years, we aim to reach 500 teachers and ignite a grassroots shift in how education is delivered in the most underserved regions of Northern Ghana.

What We’re Carrying Forward

This isn’t about starting over. It’s about scaling what worked best.

In our literacy program, we focused on activity-based learning, encouraging students to work in groups, to find joy in school, to move, laugh, and stay engaged. We built safe classrooms, where children were spoken to with kindness, not fear. In a region where corporal punishment and harsh discipline are still common, our interns worked hard to create learning environments based on trust.

We didn’t just teach kids, we also supported parents to change their mindset around education, especially for girls. As a result, we saw higher literacy levels, better school attendance, fewer dropouts, and a growing love of learning.

What Inspired This Shift

We want to bring this same spirit to the teachers already in the system, especially in rural schools where support is scarce, and job satisfaction is low. Too often, we’ve seen teachers sitting under trees, avoiding class because they feel burned out and unsupported. We've seen children asleep at their desks from hunger and heat, called to the blackboard one at a time while others are scolded or ignored. But what if teachers had the tools, training, and confidence to lead differently? What if they could manage classrooms with ease, use joyful teaching methods, and know they’re making a difference?

This is what our Rural Teachers Learning Hub is designed to offer.

How It Will Work

We’ll run a 3-month intensive training program for selected teachers, followed by 9 months of ongoing support, including monthly workshops and classroom visits. But here’s where the model becomes transformational: Each trained teacher will return to their school and train their peers.

This means that by training 100 teachers directly, we can ultimately reach up to 500 teachers each year, amplifying our approach across 100 rural schools, and positively impacting over 20,000 children annually.

This train-the-trainer model is the key to long-term, cost-effective impact. It’s how we’ll spread the heart of our literacy work: safe, engaging, and girl-centred classrooms, to hundreds of classrooms, without relying on outside facilitators.

From One Classroom to Many

This shift isn’t just strategic, it’s a statement of belief.We believe in teachers. We believe that when they’re trained, encouraged, and supported, they can create safe, engaging classrooms where all children, especially girls, can thrive.

We’re proud of what our literacy interns accomplished. And now, we’re proud to take the heart of that work and multiply it across the rural north.

Together with your support, we’re not just running programs, we’re reimagining what school can feel like for tens of thousands of children in Ghana.

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