Santander Digital Services promotes a Tech Hub to develop software in Ghana
Santander Digital Services was founded by the merge of different Technology & Operations companies from Santander a year ago.
As part of our strategy, we have established a volunteering plan in which all employees can participate. This initiative, known as #DigitalVolunteers, also includes a series of collaborative actions with various NGOs in order to multiply the positive impact of Santander Digital Services on society. 🌍🌎🌏
Within the framework of this initiative and as a result of the collaboration between Santander Digital Services and the NGO Nasco Feeding Minds, the possibility of promoting the creation of a Technology Hub in Ghana has arisen. From this Hub, developers trained in programming by the NGO collaborate with Santander Digital Services in technological projects for the Santander Group. 👩💻👨🏾💻
Lorenzo Rapun, CEO of Santander Digital Services, says: “This technology hub is an example of our commitment to society, contributing to the progress of people wherever we have the capacity, and doing our bit to change the world for the better, providing technology-based development opportunities to young people who are enthusiastic about showing their talent.”
The start of this adventure began in the summer of 2022 when the Santander Digital Services and Nasco teams met for the first time. The result of that meeting was very exciting for both parties, who decided, as a first step in this collaboration, to send more than a hundred laptops to Ghana for Christmas, which, however, in the African country, constitute an open door to hope.
Thanks to this shipment of equipment, hundreds of young people have had the opportunity to train and now, many of them, are prepared to face a future as software developers.
This year, for Christmas 2023–2024, we will send another 150 computers to Ghana’s schools and academies.
Nasco Feeding Minds: solutions to the problem of immigration in the country of origin
Founded by Ousman Umar in 2012, the NGO NASCO has been characterised by focusing its activity on the origin of the immigration problem in order to change history.
In the words of its founder, “for the first time, it is we ourselves who have to take responsibility for changing our reality”.
Ousman crossed the Sahara on foot, crossed the sea by boat and saw his friends die. Four years later he arrived in Spain where he was taken in by a family, who trained him and gave him access to an education.
Since then and through his NGO, he collects, updates and reuses computers and laptops in disuse, in order to offer new tools to young people in Ghana to decide their future through digital education.
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