For women running agribusinesses in the Krachi East district of the Oti Region, producing and processing agricultural products is only one part of the business.

Finding customers, keeping proper financial records, managing cash flow and making products visible to a wider market are equally important to sustaining growth.

To help bridge these gaps, the Telecel Ghana Foundation, in partnership with Developers Academy, has trained over 200 women in agribusiness across Dambai and Kete Krachi in the Oti Region, equipping them with practical digital and financial literacy skills.

Telecel Ghana has presented One Million Cedis to the first monthly winner in the Telecel M’ahitti promo. Adiza Ibrahim, a widowed mother of eight who resides in Prang, a rural community several hours from Ghana’s capital, had received messages about Telecel’s M’ahitti Promo and eventually opted in after her daughter encouraged her to give it a try. She wasn’t expecting to win anything. Certainly not one of the grand prizes.

When Hannah Dampson’s mobile phone rang and the caller informed her that she had won GH¢20,000 in the Telecel M’ahitti Promo, she thought someone was playing a joke on her. The 52-year-old cook at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi said her first reaction was not celebration.

“I was like, don’t raise my BP level if this is not true,” she recalled, with her heart racing. Hannah was convinced only after she went to a Telecel Ghana retail shop, where the necessary checks and verification confirmed that she was the first weekly winner nationwide since the promo was launched just over a week ago.

Telecel Ghana has strengthened its network infrastructure at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in the Volta Region with the commissioning of a dedicated 4G cell site, expanding network capacity and improving high-speed mobile connectivity across the university campus and neighbouring areas.

The project forms part of the telecom operator’s nationwide network expansion programme to deliver faster, more reliable connectivity across the country.

Telecel Ghana has argued that the country’s digital future depends on building the infrastructure, partnerships and ethical standards needed to use data and artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly.

Over the 3-day period of the Ghana Data Science Summit at the Ho Technical University, a delegation of varied experts from the telecommunications giant contributed to national conversations on artificial intelligence, data governance and workforce development through executive panel discussions, technical workshops, career mentorship and practical demonstrations of emerging digital solutions.

The Telecel Ghana Foundation has graduated 500 young learners from the fourth cohort of its DigiTech Academy across five regions. The graduation ceremonies, which brought together members of parliament, district education directors, chiefs, community leaders, teachers and parents, were held in Yendi in Northern, Sawla in Savannah, Gambaga in North East, Effiakuma in Western and Enchi in Western North regions.

The Telecel DigiTech Academy is designed for upper primary and junior high school students, who complete a 12-week after-school programme in robotics, coding, web design and mobile application development.