Honoring our heroes · Empowering our youth
We put chess boards, books and trained teachers into Ghanaian classrooms, so children learn to think several moves ahead — in the game and outside it.
The Foundation works directly with schools in Accra. We supply the equipment a club needs to start — boards, pieces, clocks and learning materials — and we stay involved afterward, training teachers so the club keeps running once we leave the room.
Chess is where we start, not where we stop. The thinking a child practices over a board — patience, consequences, recovering from a bad move — is the thinking we want them carrying into everything else. As the programme grows, so will what we offer alongside it.
Every board below was delivered in person. Twenty more schools have been visited and vetted by our coordinators in Ghana, and are waiting on funding.
Strategy is not new to Ghana. Long before any of our students sat down at a board, this country produced people who read a situation clearly, chose their moment, and moved. We teach chess in their company.
Queen mother of Ejisu, who led the Ashanti in 1900 when the men around her hesitated.
Led Ghana to independence in 1957, the first sub-Saharan African nation to get there.
The women whose names our students learn alongside the openings they practice.
Everything so far has been funded personally. If you want the next twenty schools to happen sooner, here is where to start.
About $250 outfits a full club — boards, pieces and learning materials for twenty children. Write to us and we'll tell you which school is next.
If you teach or lead a school in Ghana and want a chess club, we'd like to hear from you. info@markinnewsomefoundation.org
Deliveries, clubs and the children playing in them are posted as they happen. @markinnewsomefoundation