Tech4Ghana                                           

Wli's Computer Center opened in August 2009.  Its Library opened in 2011.  The Computer Lab and Reading Center will open in the near future. 

It is equipped with desktop, laptops and mini-laptop computers, a printer, an LCD projector, a digital camera and a camcorder.  Computers are loaded with a variety of educational and word processing software and are, as of August 2010, Internet-enabled.  With the constructions and activation of Wli's first cell phone tower, telephone and Internet access is now available.  In August 2011, we established a circulating library of books and magazines there. We offer free access to these resources. 

Local elementary and middle schools teachers bring their students for Information and Communication Technology classes.  Instruction focuses on hardware knowledge, typing and word-processing applications, and software and Internet-based research, as well as online communications.

We are constructing a Computer Lab and two classrooms to greatly expand our capacity to serve the educational needs of the community.  The Lab will accommodate an entire class of students from the schools, so that each student will be able to use a laptop.  Teachers will utilize the LCD projector to instruct student, projecting images on a large screen.  One classroom will house the library; the other will be a reading resource room for English language instruction and teacher training.  The two buildings have already added an impressive presence to the campus.  Construction is on-going and we hope to fully furnish and equip and begin to use the two buildings soon.

We are presently finishing the construction of necessary restroom facilities first.  The septic tank is complete.  In March 2017, we drilled a bore hole well to supply us with unlimited clean water.  We are about to launch a GoFundMe campaign entitled CleanWater4Children @ Tech4Ghana to pay for its completion.

Entering the campus, through the gate, the existing computer center and library, on the right, will become a reception center/campus office in the future.  The lab and classrooms/library are located straight ahead, down the landscaped path.

Further onto the  campus, a 2-bedroom volunteer house has been built.  A two-floor building houses four guest rooms and a multi-use hall for lectures, video-viewing, clinics and meetings, still under construction.  



The campus is beautifully landscaped with native rainforest trees and plants, fruit trees, edible leaf/tuber and herb plants, and flowering bushes and flowers. 

It is situated at the edge of what is left of Wli's virgin rainforest, a mountain ridge and world-renown waterfalls.  The photo below, with the upper waterfalls visible in the background, was taken four years ago when the property was planted with rice, as are all adjacent deforested farms.  Most of the trees in the foreground have since been felled.

During the last three years we planted nearly 300 rainforest canopy trees this property.  It has been left fallow and is naturally reverting from grassland to forest.  It has become a sanctuary for birds and butterflies and, in time, will be the last standing reminder to Wli residents of what their ancestors called "Afegame", thick forest.

See the Photo Gallery page for photos from Wli's Computer Center and Library, taken over the past five years.  Visit Tech4Ghana on Facebook to view short videos from the opening of the Computer Center in 2009.