The Ayele Foundation

About Us

The educational disparity between the urban and rural child is ever increasing. About 80 percent of rural school children in Ghana never proceed to high school. This is the end result of the inadequate supply of educators, textbooks and technology. To make it worse, there is a perceived lack of relevance for schooling which is exacerbated by a rigid curriculum often designed for a context (and sometimes culture) removed from rural areas. Rural schools rarely adapt the curriculum to make use of local examples, or to link the curriculum to local needs.

The Ayele foundation is a registered non profit organization in the USA, our mission is to provide every child in rural Ghana with a better future by fostering literacy and embracing technology.

The Ayele Foundation believes that quality education is a type of education process centered on a student who has an active role to play in developing his or her intellectual and other qualities. In bridging the gap between the rural and urban child, the foundation believes every rural child should receive basic education (reading, writing, and arithmetic) in the language which she/he is most familiar with. Once a solid educational foundation is laid in the child’s first language, the child can expand her experience and learn more even through other languages spoken in her wider environment. This is especially true in multilingual settings as in the case of Ghana. We seek to accomplish such goal, using first language (L1) to achieve greater success in second language (L2) while embracing technology.

We believe that by creating educational opportunities in vulnerable areas and addressing the need for enhanced curriculums and teacher retention, students from rural areas will be able to lead their communities through scholarship and community development. Our ultimate goal is to help:

• Promote the full and harmonious development of Native and English language of every rural student,
• Equip students with computer literacy,
• Give students some preparation for adult working life,
• Students gain the basis for further training,
• Students attain the level of competence necessary for proceeding to high school,
• Increase school attendance among rural children.

We also believe that to do this we’ll need to addresses the need for electricity generation and technology development in rural areas so that advancements in education can be made even more effectively and with more enduring results.