What We Do

Light up Africa is an ICT and book reading intellectual initiative by Bra Fie Nsoroma Foundation targeted at young people of Africa currently a case study of a Village called Ebubonko in Cape Coast South, Ghana – West African. The purpose of this initiative is to expose the children positively to the technological light with the use of ICT and book reading. Technology is growing very fast, and it’s been taken over by every sector in the world. Without proper education on this tool and an improvement of English reading skill, an African child stand no chance in the world of competition and possibilities, therefore an African child will continue to live in the dark ages. Since we were kids this problem has been there and it’s still here, if we don’t help our youth now, we will never come out of this dark age with our black communities. Computer technology is fully benefiting children of the west world while African children are still suffering and are rallying behind the old methodical and unsupported technology. All children deserve the right to grow, chase their dreams and become who they want to be in life but with this tool called technology is the order of the day where an average African child is under-privileged to and have no knowledge whatsoever.

Bra Fie Nsoroma Foundation is desiring to build a center for the kids to be able to improve English literature and learn Information Communication Technology (ICT) education or IT learning. African kids are very smart. If they are introduced to the right information and with proper direction and practice, they will excel in every facet of life. That is what we seek to achieve.

This soccer pitch reading program over the past four years has seen some success in the lives of many young kids despite our difficulties and challenges. One of the main challenge is that we lack books that matches up with the age and levels of the kids and also most kids shows up on the field hungry so learning and absorption become difficult with no concentration. 

Bra Fie Nsoroma Foundation has be organizing Soccer Pitch Reading Program over the past 4 years. Soccer pitch reading program is reading program which targeted towards kids in the village who love to play soccer but don’t have passion for reading to improve reading and English skills.

This initiative by Bra Fie Nsoroma Foundation is targeted towards kids’ cognitive development with reading skills and offer them opportunity to exercise their mind and body by playing soccer.

We partnered with Ali Royal Soccer Foundation, a local Juvenal soccer academy and we selected one of the deprived communities Ebubonku in central Region, Ghana in which the kids love to play soccer, but some show no interest in schooling and pay little or no attention to education. So we are using soccer as a bait to arouse their interest to read books to improve their English language and skills on the soccer pitch and play the soccer after the reading session. We offer them drinks as a motivation to get them participate in the reading session. Volunteers together with the kids sit on the pitch for the reading session, it’s a nice way to improve English literacy and enhance their education and make fun by playing soccer at the end. The coaches together with the volunteers will do warm up exercise before they start the reading exercise. 

Most pediatric wards in the hospitals in Ghana, lacks murals on the walls and others interesting educational art to help bring healing to the patients (kids) on admission in the wards. Bra Fie Nsoroma Foundation (BFNF) have devoted our time to visit the hospital and do some reading with the kids on Saturdays. We spend some time with them to work out or read for them so that we can share their pain and help them get relieved. We have been visiting CCTH pedis ward to read for the kids and it is one of the most interesting programs which spark up some happiness in the life of someone who is sick at the hospital, at least he / she knows that people care about them. Bra Fie Nsoroma seek to help with reading and other workbooks with kids at the pediatric unit at the hospital. Currently we will resume after the covid-19 pandemic. You can support us with book if you wish to help us.  

African Kids Connect (AKC) this is a program initiated to bridge the gap that have existed between African kids to get connected among themselves locally and also connect out with kids abroad. We basically want to use things around us, most especially Tourism and Educational activities to help them broaden up their horizon and get connected. Connect up with the environment, the people and tourism attractions sites.

Tourism relaxes the mind, body, and the spirit but AKC want to focus on the things around us because it can easily make meaning to the kids and help to boost their confidence level, lead them to discover who they are and what wish to become. Whatever talent a kids may possess still needs to be mentored or nurtured. Their potentials can fully be maximize through education which will help them to discover their dreams and chase it.

By default most African kids looks down upon themselves and capabilities, thinking that kids in the western world have better chances of achieving greater height than them. This is because of the low exposure they get from their parents. It is very normal for the western parent to engage and expose their kids into programs that prepare kids into their career or introduce them to a greater height.

All kids deserve the right environment and condition to grow, AKC seek to ignite this process for Africa kids to get connected, present them with equal opportunity and encourage them with the right mind set to grow into an achiever.

AKC through this program will help the kids come out of their traditional way of thinking and begin to think globally and imbibe in them the can-do spirit and lead them into their desired destinations. Kids mentorship and matching them up to professional in their chosen career, mini-internship opportunities with their career job to help kids test water to see if they have right chosen vacation.