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Boreholes in Gyetiase

We managed to drill two successful boreholes in our home village of Gyetiase last month.
The photos show the second which was drilled late into the night, and struck water close to our headquarters building.

Cataract Surgery Success Story

Happy new month 🙂
Today we share a photo of when Chris Hartley-Sharpe, Ashanti Development’s co-chair, was recently in Ghana and bumped into a former client of our eye clinic. The photo shows the patient explaining how grateful and how much better his life was now that he’d had cataract surgery and could see again.
Noting the non-traditional local housing in the background, the setting is believed to be of in the migrant village of Amoaman, where most of the population have walked south from Burkina Faso.

Boreholes in Gyetiase

We’ve just drilled two new boreholes in our home village of Gyetiase, where the population will soon have outgrown the water supply.
Both hit water at 140 metres but we have yet to test them for water quality and quantity. We’re hoping that the borehole in the centre of the village will pass both tests, as it would be convenient for everyone, but if not we at least have the second for back-up.

Prosper’s Agricultural Work

On the left of the picture below is Prosper. He has been working for us for about a year now. Prosper is a graduate of agricultural college and teaches people farming, including Mariama Issah, a migrant from the Sahel. Mariama is happy because she’s just harvested her maize crop and finds she’s got over double the amount that she had last year.

People like Prosper allow for the real difference Ashanti Development can make, we are very grateful for his work.

Ankamadua Village Latrine Project Update

Ankamadua latrine project is proceeding fast with the whole community working hard. So far 140 latrines are being built, of which fifty are complete.

Madam Akua is full of praise to the sponsor and asks for god’s blessing on them. She is happy that she no longer had to go to the bush in the night and early morning to defecate and so she no longer had to worry about snake bite.
See the second photo attached to this post.

We’re Looking for Volunteer Fundraisers!

Help us to continue making a difference to the health, development and livelihoods of communities across the Ashanti region in Ghana by becoming a volunteer fundraiser. See below for more details and please feel free to get in touch.

Ashanti Development was set up in 2005, when London-based Ghanaians asked their friends and neighbours for help to improve the lives of people in their home villages. These were cocoa farmers who could no longer grow cocoa because of climate change. Many were close to starvation.

We are a 100 per cent volunteers’ charity and pay no salaries and very few expenses in the UK. We employ staff in Ashanti to carry out our projects.

We are looking for a volunteer fundraiser with the ability to raise money in ways including by applying for grants from donor organisations. They must be committed to our aims and objects (see www.ashantidevelopment.org), have the ability to produce good written English and be free to offer us a few hours work a week. They must also be happy to work remotely. The role would suit a new starter looking for some first-hand experience and who we would train, or a retired person, or anyone else with spare time on their hands who wished to make a contribution to improving the lives of the very poor.

The volunteer will get no pay – just the knowledge that they’re saving lives and the eternal gratitude of thousands of Ashanti families.

We look forward to hearing from you!

A Taste of Ghana 2022

A Taste of Ghana
Come and join us at our Annual Summer Party!
Saturday 6 August 2022
16.30 – 19.30
The Garden, The Tenants’ Hall
Underneath Tresham
Lambs Conduit Passage
London WC1R 4RE
(nearest Tube station: Holborn)

Ashantis living in central London will cook an authentic Ghanaian meal for you. Come and buy Ashanti gifts and souvenirs made in the dressmaking school in our home village of Gyetiase. There will also be a chance to win a raffle prize and find out more about Ghana, the charity, and how to become a volunteer.
Everyone’s welcome.
Tickets £16 (concessions £13)
Pay at the door by cash or credit card or book through Eventbrite
Eventbrite bookings £13
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-taste-of-ghana-tickets-379159274597

Time for Tennis?

Time for Tennis? The Wimbledon Foundation has kindly offered us two Centre Court tickets for the Championships for Thursday 7 July. We’re going to auction these on-line to raise funds for Ashanti Development. The normal price for these tickets is £210 each, ie £420 for two. If you are interested in bidding, please let us know your best offer before Thursday June 9. The winner will be informed and told how to access their tickets on June 12. PS. Save The Dates Our annual summer party, A Taste of Ghana, will be held on Saturday August 6 from 4.30 to 7.30pm. And our sponsored walk down the Canal from St Pancras to Limehouse will be held on Saturday 24 September at 2.30pm – details to follow.

Free Food for Toddlers

Ashanti Development is very grateful to All Saints Church in Fleet for raising enough money to provide thirty children with free school dinners for a year. We know that since we started giving these the children look much stronger and healthier, and the mothers, of course, feel a great burden has been lifted from their shoulders.
Thank you so much, All Saints, from us and from all the children and their parents.
 

De-Worming Project

We’ve raised funds to buy worm tablets for children across two local authority areas and last week 1,400 received their first treatment of the year. The cost of tablets plus the costs of travel and community sensitization is 50p a child. This last is important, since many village people have never taken tablets and without sensitisation parents may refuse treatment for their children because they are afraid.
The children in the photos are holding up their packets of medication and are very happy.   They know the tablets will make a world of difference to their health and comfort.

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