School for Life (SfL)

School for Life (SfL) started in 1994, springing from cooperation on rural development between the Northern Ghana-based civil society organization, Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA) and a Danish NGO (the Ghana Friendship Groups in Denmark). The partners saw education as a pillar for development and at the same time realized that there were serious challenges to education performance in deprived parts of Northern Ghana. Since its inception over the past 26 years, SfL has delivered several impact and target driven programmes benefitting the most disadvantaged population in the country especially rural Northern Ghana. SfL has been delivering target driven education interventions to deal with the problem of access and quality education. Its flagship program, the Functional Literacy Programme (Started with funding support from DANIDA) which has evolved to become what is now known as the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) Programme has contributed in providing access to education for the hardest to reach children in Ghana. Over 300,000 out of school children have been supported to enhance their literacy and numeracy skills by providing flexible learning platforms, context based learning materials and community resident volunteer support. SfL has also contributed significantly in enhancing the learning gains especially in literacy and numeracy skills of children in the most deprived communities of Northern Ghana with programmes supported by USAID, DFID, UNICEF among others.