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Meet Akorfa Ama Akoto
Akorfa Ama Akoto is an education and development communication professional championing the UN SDG 4 goal in Ghana.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Policy Studies and a BA in Sociology and Chinese from the University of Ghana, and has completed a one-year Chinese Language Immersion program at the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China. Akorfa has earned certificates in Evaluating Social Programs from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), GIMPA, Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness from Purple Almond Consulting Services, Dubai, and NGO Project & Operations Management from the Cambridge Center of Excellence.
Presently, Akorfa serves as the Head of Marketing and Communications at the Institutional Advancement Directorate(InAD), a Directorate under the auspices of the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana. Before this role, she served as the Technical Advisor/Research Assistant to the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service. She has also worked as a Communications Assistant at Ghana’s Ministry of Education, which oversees all educational policies, including apprenticeships and skills acquisition.
Akorfa has worked as an Educational Content Creator with Perbi Cubs Library Services, a virtual learning platform that makes reading enjoyable for children. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, she has worked as a teacher and Mandarin Translator for schools and international companies.
In 2019, Akorfa founded Spring-UP Global Network (SUGN); www.sugn.org  a registered non-profit in Ghana dedicated to bridging the literacy gap between children in rural and urban areas. In 2020, SUGN launched the iRead iLead Educational campaign, a 10-year strategic initiative aimed at making libraries accessible and nurturing the reading, writing, arithmetic, and creativity skills of learners at the primary level. The campaign also seeks to popularise and demystify STEM education through activity-based programs at the pre-tertiary level. This initiative supports the Ministry of Education’s goal to achieve a 60:40 admission ratio of science to humanities students at the tertiary level by 2030, as outlined in the Education Strategic Plan (ESP 2018-2030).
In September 2022, Deloitte partnered with SUGN to support its WorldClass Initiative, contributing $55,000.00 to refurbish and restock eight school libraries, benefiting over 35,000 children in Ghana. This brings the total number of libraries provided by SUGN to ten (10).
Akorfa believes in the power of storytelling and writing to address societal issues. Her writings, inspired by her everyday experiences, aim to amplify the news, culture, and lifestyle of people and places in Africa. She dedicates her website, www.akorfaakoto.com  to amplifying African stories.
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