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

Education in Ghana

The Ayele foundation is excited to be partnering with The Fua Le'o Project. The Fua Le'o project aims at promoting heritage language literacy. The program has being designed to help children write stories in their local language.Originating from University of Hawaii, the project is currently making headways in Wales,Hawaii (USA), Rapa Nui and Ghana. The Ayele 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, moving from the known to unknown.The partnership is a great step to helping rural children in Ghana attain literacy. Th

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