Fullname: Spring-UP Global Network Spring-UP Global Network
Category: Best Volunteer Group of The Year
Code: 3581
Nominee's Bio: Spring-UP Global Network (SUGN)is a network of youth mentors advancing basic quality education in orphanages and hard-to-reach schools in rural communities in Ghana. SUGN is on a mission to connect Tertiary students and Business professionals to provide mentorship and career guidance to basic school and secondary school students living in deprived communities in Ghana. In addition, we’re nurturing the reading and writing skills of children, by providing school libraries in deprived schools. Since 2019, SUGN has provided teaching and learning materials to seven (7) schools and orphanages in Central, Ashanti, Volta and the Greater Accra Regions of Ghana and has impacted a total of 2425 beneficiaries through 13 projects. The organization embarks on projects namely: 1. iRead iLead Campaign 2. Mentor Me 3. Back to School Drive 4. Jaa Ojoormo (Christmas party with children) The first library under the NGO's iRead iLead campaign was refurbished at Yevi D/A Basic School in the Volta Region. Stocked with over 400 books, the library is serving the 300 primary and Junior High School students in the school