22/09/2026
Who else can see the jar of chalk on the table in this classroom?
This is Adaklu Ahunda Kpodzi Basic School, and that chalk is how ICT is taught: through chalk diagrams on the blackboard.
For 223 children in this school, a computer has only ever been an IMAGINATION. Most have never held a mouse, typed on a keyboard, or watched a monitor turn on.
This photo was taken in February during one of our school visits. Class had just ended, and we were spending time together, getting to know each other better... building a real connection.
For a while now, every time we bring a laptop to the school, over a hundred children crowd around just to get close enough to touch the keys and see what is happening on the screen.
Their hunger to be part of the digital age is completely valid... and that curiosity goes beyond the enrolled students. Even out-of-school children, whose families cannot afford school fees, run over too, eager to learn.
Adaklu Ahunda Kpodzi is a rural community in the Volta Region of Ghana where internet access is neither stable nor reliable. For years, progress stalled due to community fears and myths that network towers caused "cancer". Through engagement and dialogue, that mindset shifted, and a network tower is finally being mounted, but we still do not know when connectivity will actually go live.
Waiting for perfect infrastructure means letting months slip away, then years... and on and on it goes. Geography and financial constraints should never determine the digital future of a child.
Adaklu Ahunda is just a case study... a microcosm of what is happening across rural Ghana and many parts of the developing world.
This is why Happy Daffodils is building the community’s first offline digital lab. Instead of waiting on reliable internet, our architecture leverages an offline local server that hosts offline AI and rich educational repositories like RACHEL by World Possible and Kolibri by Learning Equality. Through a local router, this setup powers individual workstations using Raspberry Pi, delivering interactive STEM content, foundational computer skills, and digital textbooks without needing a single byte of data.
Bridging the digital divide doesn't mean waiting for the cloud. It means bringing the classroom to the child today.
We are calling on organizations, individuals, and partners who believe in this vision and want to support this initiative with hardware and resources. Let's make this possible together
Raspberry Pi Foundation
TECH'ing Young Minds, Shaping Futures Who We Are Happy Daffodils is a registered non-profit organization in Ghana dedicated to bridging the digital divide by
