The first team of 20 volunteers worked for three months in early 2025 with schools in Koforidua and local government offices in Mpigi and Mityana.
In late January 2025, 20 volunteers left Korea for Ghana and Uganda as the first team of a KOICA project volunteer program for IT capacity building. Twelve went to Ghana and eight to Uganda. Better World runs the program together with the World Canaan Movement. The team returned to Korea after three months of work.
The program is planned as five deployments, with each team living on site for three months. Volunteers train teachers and public officials in IT skills and carry out projects to repair and improve the local ICT environment.
In Uganda, the volunteers spent a week in the capital, Kampala, and then split into two teams for the Mpigi and Mityana districts, where they worked in local government offices. They set up computer rooms with computers and Microsoft Office, and for seven weeks taught Excel, PowerPoint and Word. In the final week they held an IT competition and handed out certificates. The team dealt with long power cuts and a computer error that erased the files on a USB drive. "Every time I saw trainees pleased at how much they had improved since the start, I felt proud too," said the volunteer in charge of training.
In Ghana, the team was based in Koforidua, about two hours from the capital, Accra, and worked with 16 schools. Volunteers installed computers, internet access and Microsoft Office in school IT rooms and held a ceremony to donate the equipment. They also set up an IT professional learning community for teachers of subjects other than computing. After the training, teachers used Word to write mathematics problems and PowerPoint to prepare new class materials. The volunteer in charge of publicity described the three months as a time spent "thinking together about what is needed and laying the groundwork," more than a time of visible change.
Later teams have continued the work. A second team was deployed in May 2025. In July 2026, Better World reported that volunteers in Ghana had built ICT rooms in local schools over three teams and were running a Teachers Learning Circle, an ICT course for teachers taught at introductory and basic levels, and that the fourth of the five Ghana deployments was nearing its end.
