Help us give digital access to women in rural Ghana - The Hunger Project UK

Give the gift of knowledge and digital training to women in rural Ghana!

A sustainable program for rural women's digital inclusion will be co-developed -- both with The Hunger Project and their local partners -- including women leaders -- at epicentre sites. Through the project, Internet access will be extended to the THP Epicentres in each community. Here, a Community ICT Centre (CIC) is established with 10 workspaces including computers, furniture and other inventory, dedicated for project participants.

This project aims to increase young women's (ages 15-34) economic opportunities by providing meaningful connectivity and eliminating digital inclusion barriers for 6,000 women in five rural and semi-urban communities in the Eastern Region in Ghana.

This project will build on Bluetown's extensive experience providing Internet access in previously unserved or underserved rural communities in several countries in the Global South during the past seven years. The gender digital divide is significant across these markets, which must be addressed to digitally include the remaining 37% of the world's population, which still lacks access to connectivity.

Through the project, Bluetown and partners will implement a rural connectivity model, which incorporates cost-effective rural Internet infrastructure solutions, cost-free access to digital educational content, and local engagement and partnerships. Further, the project aims to give women the skills, tools, motivations, and enabling environment for digital inclusion while facilitating the use of digital content, training, and services for digital skills, workforce development, entrepreneurship and small business management, financial services, agricultural practices, and health and nutrition awareness to improve the livelihoods of the participating women and their families.

The project will serve as a pilot for creating a sustainable approach for enabling women's digital inclusion that can be adapted and scaled across rural and semi-urban Ghana over the next decade. In order to create sustained impact through digital inclusion, in LMICs, Bluetown applies an innovative, self-sustaining commercial model that not only provides affordable Internet, but also focuses on building the capacity and relevance for the Internet in those areas.

Bluetown's approach to enabling young women's meaningful Internet access combines Bluetown's rural connectivity model, with partners expertise, proven programs, methodologies, content and services as well as their knowledge of local context and needs.

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