Supporting education in Ghana: Our partnership with the PAAJAF Foundation
At AFL Development, we believe in using our knowledge and skills to help communities around the world. One of our most rewarding projects a collaboration with The PAAJAF Foundation, a Ghana-based NGO dedicated to improving the quality of life of children in the Gbawe community in Greater Accra region.
Education challenges in Ghana
In Ghana, illiteracy rate goes as high as 45%, meaning almost every second citizen of Ghana cannot read or write with understanding. For many families, the barriers to education are too great for them to overcome:
- there aren’t enough public schools to meet the demand
- the overall quality of school programs is insufficient
- lacking funds to send children to school
Since 2007, the PAAJAF Foundation has been providing free education to children of Gbawe region. However, to be able to do that, they rely on the donations from people from all over the World.
How AFL Development stepped in
AFL Development was approached by PAAJAF’s CEO Philip Appiah needing help in finishing their new website. As a non-profit organization with limited resources, they couldn’t afford extensive development costs. Realizing the importance of their website in securing donations and spreading awareness, we decided to step in pro bono.
Overcoming technical challenges
The foundation’s website was built using the Divi theme, a pre-built WordPress theme with limitations that made customizations challenging. Although we prefer not to use pre-built and bloated themes, we were aware of the importance of working within the existing setup to save time and resources.
Our main focus was on the back-end development, where we tackled numerous issues left by previous developers and implemented new functionalities that improved website’s performance and user experience. Here’s what we achieved:
- we resolved bugs and improved the overall stability of the site by fixing inconsistencies
- added couple of custom post types to differentiate content types, like news updates and success stories
- developed custom templates which ensured consistent and user-friendly design throughout the website
- implemented custom scripts to enhance functionality and user experience
- technical and on-page SEO to help PAAJAF reach a wider audience
Join PAAJAF’s mission
Today, the PAAJAF Foundation’s website is fully operational, serving as one of their vital tool for their mission to educate and empower underprivileged children. The website can be accessed at https://paajaf.org, where you can learn more about their incredible work and make a difference by donating.
We are proud of being a part of this project and encourage others to support the PAAJAF Foundation and children of the Gwabe region.
