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Title and Organization:		GHANA COMPUTER CHARITY SERVICE, GHANA COMPUTER CHARITY SERVICE
Gender and Age:		Male, 28
Location:		Brampton, Ontario
Country of Residence:		Canada
Country of Birth:		Ghana
Nationalities:		Canadian Ghanaian
Citizenships:		Ghana
Languages:		English , Twi , Afrikaans



Website:		http://www.ghanacomputer.com
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About Me

The Charity Ghana Computer Charity (GCC) is a small charitable organization with the purpose of increasing computer literacy and knowledge of
Information Technology among children in rural areas in Ghana, other disenfranchised individuals in Ghana.

We aim to accomplish this goal through specific and targeted interventions, such as developing computer centres where computer training workshops will be delivered to the target audience and beneficiaries.
The GCC charity was initiated by Issah Benson in May 2006 after discovering the shocking statistics of computer usage in Africa (Ghana) compared with other developing countries the rest of the around the world.

Our Charitable Objectives In the immediate future, GCC aims to address the need by exposing children to computers at an influential age, therefore ensuring the future generation’s assimilation to the electronic age. The exposure to computers, and material they are taught should ensure more confidence in a computing environment. Basic computer skills will also mean that children have a certain level of literacy with regards to computers that they may otherwise have missed out on. Statistics show that many Africans (Ghanaians) do not have access to global information technology. While the world continues to participate and reap the benefits of the rapid advancements in global information technology, many individuals in Ghana find themselves marginalized without access to or knowledge of reliable information technological systems. This lack of information technology causes a social economic deficiency in the livelihoods of many individuals which translates into few and low skill employment opportunities, little or no access to the wider world, and the loss of an essential transferable skills. This combines to leave individuals already deep in poverty at a further disadvantage ¬ pushing them further into poverty.