In northern Ghana there is every reason for a child to be able to attend school; the government provides universal free primary education, schooling is respected and valued by most of society and prized most highly by children themselves. However, with the hidden costs of schooling including compulsory uniforms, textbooks and exam fees, with the pressure to remain home and work the farm or earn for the family, and with the standard of teaching often extremely low, the system is not working as well as it should. AfriKids’ education strategy acknowledges this and aims to work within and around the Ghana Education Services’ (GES) system to improve access to and quality of education. We have been commended by the International Labour Organisation for our development of transitional education on Operation Sunlight, we are working with GES to establish a beacon school for the region in rural Zuarungu and we have developed curriculum enhancing services including child rights clubs and IT tuition that has benefited thousands of local school children. In order to continue with education projects we are seeking to raise £40,000 to develop our beacon school, child rights clubs and IT tuition.