Soronko Academy

Welcome to Soronko Academy! Soronko Academy is the leading technology and digital skills development center in Africa, pioneering the way for talented young women to realize their economic potential equipping them with the technical and soft skills they need to attain dignified, fulfilling jobs and overcome the gender gap in technology. Through its wide geographic reach and suite of public and private partnerships, Soronko Academy cultivates the next generation of female innovators who leverage their critical thinking skills and entrepreneurial spirit to create solutions that address their community’s most pressing problems. The academy is part of a non for profit organization, Soronko Foundation. The academy was started in 2017 to scale and sustain the impact of a project called Tech Needs Girls. Tech Needs Girls is a mentorship program where we teach underprivileged girls from 6-18years to code and create technology. We have trained over 20,000 women and girls in 13 regions in Ghana and expanded our impact to Burkina Faso. With our experience we developed an interactive coding and human-centered design curriculum with support from a team from Dartmouth College We offer technical courses in computer basics, web development, mobile app development and blogging &Ecommerce. Courses run from 6-8weeks for 2 hours during the week and on weekends. We have classes for children from 5-17 years and adults from 18-75 years. We also offer soft skills training in Human-Centered Design, entrepreneurship, leadership, etiquette and presentation skills. After the training students are offered the opportunity to intern and access to job opportunities. Students also get the opportunity to be connected with a network, funding and skills to start their own business. Since the academy started we have expanded our curriculum to work with boys and children with disabilities. We also work with adults. We have taught deaf children and children with autism how to code & create technology