Career Advise Tool I Want to Be

To Be Worldwide has developed a course to help children realise their full potential by exposing future career opportunities. Not every child wants to or can be a doctor or lawyer.Expanding their world to all the different career opportunities in their communities, contributes to a better future, one in which they can make a difference.

We ran a very successful Career Advise Tool Pilot course last June in Ghana. We wanted to test how the children would work with the program /application, what impact it had (that we could measure in the few days that we had) and how much they liked it. Overall the 'I want to be' trial showed great relevance for the kids. Most children were able to open up their thinking about their future within 2 days. Besides some small issues regarding navigation, the children worked intuitively with the application.

We had the expert assistance of Mr. Kofi Essien, our 'Master Teacher' who ran the course with the children. This allowed Lea (board member To Be Worldwide) and Loes (volunteer To Be Worldwide) to observe all processes and document all adjustments we still need to make.

With the presence of Mr. Sunney Quaicoe, from the Metro Education Board at the trail, we were able to link our program to the local and perhaps national educational needs on this subject. Whilst the trail was taking place at the Centre, Elsbeth (board member To Be Worldwide) and Nellie Kirschner-Timmer were visiting different professionals in the field of Health Care, Aviation and the Harbour. The professionals were interviews to fill the database of the application to allow the children to explore the eLibrary of the program and learn about different jobs and the people in it right there in their own community.