One Step Learning Opportunities Centre (OSL) is grassroots federally, and provincially registered charity. OSL was incorporated after a Canadian couple freely donated a building and large space for 30 years to be used for early childhood learning. The “why” or cause for their philanthropic generosity is “Making Early Childhood Learning Affordable” for impoverished toddlers in rural Ghana.
Headquartered in Edmonton Alberta, OSL operates in both Canada communities, and Ghana. In Canada the charity serves communities, organizations, and individuals through connectivity, communication, marketing, and accountable stewardship, to ensure OSL friends and donors’ contributions are appropriately channelled for early childhood learning. A foresight goal and outcome for the Canada operations is to leverage the quality daycare operations for collaboration as a placement Centre for Canada post graduate early childhood learning students and volunteers to do their practicum or practical experience credentials; while serving impoverished children through Play-based education.
Our Purpose
To advance education by establishing, operating, and maintaining a Learning through Play daycare Centre in Entumbil, Ghana; and
To undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of this charitable purpose
Affordability
Entumbil is an impoverished farming community in Ghana. Majority of the population are girls and women who are mostly illiterate and unemployed. There was no childcare until OSL stepped in. To enable affordability in the Entumbil farming community, One Step Learning Opportunities Centre (OSL) charges a one-time registration fee of GHC 20 (twenty Ghana cedis, equivalent to Cdn$3 and USD$2), and a daily attendance fee of GHC4 (50 cents Canadian and 30 cents USD$).
