The is picture was taken at the graduation ceremony in November 2017 in the new electricity lab of the Lady Volta Vocational Centre, which comprises 11 electrical work benches and was made possible with the generous support of the Fondation Schneider Electric to our partner NGO Village Exchange...
In the last mounts we distributed reading lights for the Safe Today Initiative (Safe-TI) in local communities. Here you can read more about our exploratory study in the communities and some pics from our vocational centre, as it was presented to a local official by our manager Senyo and Julien:...
The National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) foundations exam certificates finally arrived. The exams took place in November/December 2016 and 8 students passed various trade levels of the official Ghanaian NVTI. So proud of our students and teachers! Click here to see pictures some of the certificates issued by the Ghanian...
Here you can see of the solar lab, which has been built on the roof of the building. In future it can be used for practical training. Second year students have equipped the lab with a small solar system: they made and installed the racking structure according to mechanical drawings and...
SVAfrica together with our partner Village Exchange Ghana featured in NPR: Giving Power To Women In Ghana You can find a brand-new NPR article written by Ginanne Brownell Mitic about the development of the Lady Volta Vocational Center here:...
In February 9 new students started the new class for NVTI vocational training in electricity. Moreover, 4 of our previous students continued to study for various levels of the NVTI examinations. Village Exchange Ghana’s new volunteer Julien Aix is teaching the new solar power course sequence. In the picture you...
Today a team from GTV, the Ghanaian TV channel, visited the vocational center. Our student Evelyn gave them an interview and demonstrated to them how to produce solar chargers. The TV team was quite surprised to see that the solar chargers were able to charge one of their...
You can find us at: http://facebook.com/svafrica https://twitter.com/SVAfrica Here you can also find out more about our two Charge-up Ghana workshops to build solar chargers in 2014 and 2015, as well about our Indiegogo fundraising campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/empower-women-to-charge-up-ghana#/ In the picture you can see some of the finished solar panels from our...
