Spring-UP Global Network (SUGN) is a youth-led not-for-profit, working to bridge the literacy gap between children in rural and urban Ghana. We are on a mission to connect Tertiary students and Business professionals to provide mentorship and career guidance to primary school and secondary school students living in deprived communities in Ghana. In addition, we’re nurturing the reading and writing skills of children through our iRead iLead Campaign. At Spring-UP Global Network, we are working to achieve the UN SDG4 Target 4.1 and 4.6 that says:
We are a youth-led nonprofit empowering children in rural and urban Ghana through mentorship, career guidance, and our iRead iLead campaign. By connecting tertiary students and business professionals with young learners, we nurture reading, writing, and leadership skills that create brighter futures.
A 2023 report by the Ghana Library Authority revealed that less than 30% of public basic schools have functioning libraries. In rural Ghana, only 1 in 10 schools has access to a stocked library, limiting exposure to books and reading culture.
Mentorship programmes have been shown to increase school attendance by up to 55% and significantly improve academic performance, especially among disadvantaged children. In Ghana, NGOs and community-based organisations are filling this gap, but coverage remains limited in underserved regions.
A 2025 global study found that only 27% of organisations include youth-focused leadership training in their programmes. In Ghana, leadership training is rarely integrated into the formal curriculum, leaving a gap in nurturing confident, ethical, and visionary young leaders.
We are on a mission to connect Tertiary students and Business professionals to provide mentorship and career counseling to children in hard-to-reach communities.
We are also renovating and building school libraries in addition to the Reading and Writing Clubs we are establishing in schools.
We are a network of young people actively serving children in hard-to-reach communities in Ghana to help achieve the UN SDG4.
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We are advancing quality education through these projects
iRead iLead Campaign is a 10-year strategic educational program launched in January 2020 by SUGN.
SUGN provides exercise books, text books and other learning materials to school children at the beginning of each academic year in September.
Mentor me is a unique mentorship session where mentors who are often tertiary students meet their mentees in the basic school. Topics treated during the Mentor Me sessions are taken from our Mentorship Course Outline.
We are advancing quality education through these projects
iRead iLead Campaign is a 10-year strategic educational program launched in January 2020 by SUGN.
SUGN provides exercise books, text books and other learning materials to school children at the beginning of each academic year in September.
Mentor me is a unique mentorship session where mentors who are often tertiary students meet their mentees in the basic school. Topics treated during the Mentor Me sessions are taken from our Mentorship Course Outline.
Donate to advance quality education in rural communities.
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