Ghana’s streets hold more children than most people realise, and the number has been climbing for years, not falling. Behind every one of those children is a small chain of decisions, most of them made long before they ever slept outside for the first time. A lesson never taught. A question never asked at home. A warning sign a parent or teacher was simply too busy to notice.

Teach Them Young exists in that gap. We go into schools, churches and community clubs and teach children the things the curriculum quietly leaves out: how to make decisions that are actually theirs, how to stay safe in a fire or an accident, how to protect themselves online, and how to understand their own changing bodies without shame attached.

None of this is delivered as a lecture. Sessions are built to be interactive, because a child who’s asked a question remembers the answer far longer than one who’s simply told something. Every session leaves behind something physical too, a booklet, an exercise book, a set of pencils, small signals to a child that someone thought their education was worth investing in.

The aim isn’t dramatic. It’s early. Reach a child while they’re still deciding who to become, and you spend far less time later trying to undo the wrong turn.