The Story So Far

The first Alma Mater Education school was opened in the town of Wioso, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, in September 2015. The location was selected with the support of our local partners, the Ghana Education Service and the Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture, as an area particularly in need of educational support. There are no other senior schools within 20 miles and as much as 90% of the local children will not be educated beyond primary school.

Over the next four years, with ongoing donor support, we have expanded the buildings to include 9 classrooms, a large library, office buildings, toilets, and kitchen. We intend to develop this over the next 12 months by converting three of the classrooms into a science lab, and ICT suite and a home economics room.

When we began in 2015, we began by charging moderate fees of about $100 a term to half the students, so as to allow the remaining to attend on scholarships. While this worked at the start, it became apparent that we needed to focus on those who absolutely could not afford to pay at all, as fee-paying uptake began to fall off in the third year. Thus, in late 2018, we became a fully fee-free school.