Photos: A girl’s first day holding a computer

The Digital Communities being built by ATC Ghana across the country is a state-of-the-art facility with internet, high-speed computers, a back-up generator among others.

The Digital Communities being built by ATC Ghana across the country is a state-of-the-art facility with the internet, high-speed computers, a backup generator among others.

One girl’s dream of holding a computer for the first time in her life has been fulfilled in the Bono Regional town of Berekum. At 15 years, Sharifatu Azumi was yet to use a computer despite learning ICT for years.

There was pomp at her school, the Gyamdede Adom M/A in Berekum, when Ghana’s leading wireless infrastructure giants, ATC Ghana cut ribbons for the opening of a digital communities center for Sherifa’s school and other young people in the Berekum Community.

“Our school is a public school. Public schools don’t have many things and so we don’t have computers. We hear the name but we have never used it before,” she says.

Sharifa, first from the left, poses with school friends in front of their new ICT center

Head of Human Resources at ATC Ghana, Leticia Asiedu-Attafuah, looking on as a student of the Gyamdede M/A school works on a computer inside the DC.

Figure Gifty McCarthy, Senior IS Analyst at ATC Ghana taking a pupil through the keyboard.

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