Savana Signatures

Girls in northern Ghana have less experience with and access to ICT than their male counterparts, which negatively affects their self-confidence and further limits their job opportunities to non-traditional areas of employment. Savana Signatures, founded in 2005, builds ICT skills of female teachers and youth in an effort to increase access to information and job opportunities and challenge gender stereotypes.

EMpower’s first grant to Savana Signatures supports a one-year pilot program for girls-only ICT clubs in the Northern Region of Ghana that increase girls’ confidence in their ICT abilities by equipping them with skills to use technology to acquire information, learn and communicate, which will contribute to improved grades in computer classes, and subsequently higher scores on the high school leaving exams which will increase their chances for qualifying for tertiary education and eventually make them more competitive job candidates.