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<\/p>\n40 employees from Samsung\u2019s headquarters in South Korea gathered in Accra last week to take part in the company\u2019s annual global Employee Volunteer Programme (EVP).<\/p>\n
The initiative, which is aimed at empowering young girls with future-focused ICT skills, has been carried out in partnership with Better World.<\/p>\n
Each year, Samsung employees dedicate their time and skills to an initiative which they feel will add value to one of the regions in which the company operates. As part of this year\u2019s programme, staff members used their skills and expertise to train young Ghanaian girls and handed over a new Samsung-funded ultra-modern ICT Centre at the Accra Bishop Girls Junior High School.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s important for our people to be actively involved with the education initiatives we are rolling out across Africa. Not only are they able to impart considerable value through their time and expertise but it also provides them with the opportunity to witness first-hand the difference their combined involvement in Samsung is making to the lives of others,\u201d says Mr Eungjin Nahm, Samsung Electronics West Africa – Ghana.<\/p>\n
Both a Primary and Junior High School, Accra Bishop Girls\u2019 School, has a total of 760 students. Though ICT currently forms part of the school\u2019s curriculum, it has historically been forced to rely on textbooks for its education purposes as a result of its lack of ICT facilities.<\/p>\n
Through the new facility, learners will now have the opportunity to acquire and enhance technological skills vital to the new digital economy. This is particularly important when it comes to future generations of young women. We know based on the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report that there is still a 47% global gender gap when it comes to STEM graduates at tertiary level.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamsung is passionate about helping to further the development of STEM and ICT skills among women and we hope that through this initiative and others like it, we will be able to make a positive difference in the lives of many young African women,\u201d says Tracy Kyei, Marketing Executive, Samsung Electronics West Africa – Ghana
\nThe new Centre is an extension of the electronics provider\u2019s involvement in the education sector in Ghana.<\/p>\n
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Just last year Samsung opened a Smart School in the Bole and Eguafu-Edina districts to provide teachers with basic computer literacy skills. It also launched the Female Professionals in Electronics project in Ghana, in partnership with GIZ and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).<\/p>\n
Samsung has been very active in the education space in Africa in general through the roll out of Smart Schools, Solar-Powered Internet Schools, Technical Programmes and Engineering Academies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe staff of Samsung are very excited to be involved in this year\u2019s EVP in Ghana. We are passionate about advancing ICT skills among young women in Africa and view this as another important touch point through which we hopefully can make a far-reaching impact,\u201d Concludes Ms Judith Kelechi, Corporate Citizenship Manager, Samsung Electronics West Africa.<\/p>\n
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Source: Samsung Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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