Author: Penny

We’re looking for new outlets to sell the goods produced by the women who attend out dressmaking school in Ashanti. Most of these women are single mothers – a lot have twins – and their lives are incredibly hard but once they have graduated from our school they can make a good livelihood for their families and themselves. The photos show some of their work.

The picture is of Abena Mansah of Asare Nkwanta, one of the villages benefitting from Ashanti Development’s farm support project. Abena is growing rice. Her Farm Support Officer reports that the rice is currently at the flowering stage, that she is controlling weeds well throughout the farm, and applying fertiliser correctly.

We aim for at least half of all the farmers on our project to be women, and we hope for as many disabled people as possible. Our aim is to leave no-one behind.

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The pictures show Ashanti Development’s Museum at Gyetiase. Its intention is to show how life was before the village was opened to outside influences. For example, it will have a small house, built by traditional building methods .

One of these days soon, we will employ a caretaker and open it up to the public. With luck it will generate a little income for Ashanti Development.

All our gratitude goes to the team of eight Spec savers opticians from Leicester, headed by Mr AB Roy, who have just come back from Ashanti to the UK. While in Ghana they screened 200-250 people’s eyes every day, prescribing hundreds of second-hand prescription spectacles, which they’d collected and graded in advance. They ended their visit by financing seventy-one cataract operations. When the bandages were taken off the patients’ eyes, they jumped and sang, or wept, for joy. What an amazing gift to the people of Ashanti.

Queuing For an Optician.

Examining

Looking for the right prescriptions

Waiting for glasses

Perfect Prescriptions

The Team