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.
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
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
We recently built a school for Esereso village, as the school the community built themselves blew away in a storm. The school we built was much larger as we knew that as soon as term started more children would come out of the bush and enroll. But we’ve only now managed to raise funds for desks for the children, who used to sit on the floor during lessons.
We’re looking for medical staff who’d like to volunteer in Mampong Government Hospital for, say, 2 weeks to 6 months. They’ll have to pay their own fares and vaccinations, but Ashanti Development will provide free board, lodging, washing, internet and transport to and from work.
There are 98 beds in the hospital’s general wing and a further 56 elsewhere. Treatable conditions such as malaria are by far the highest cause of admission to the general wing, followed by anaemia, pneumonia, diarrhoea, typhoid, hypertension and diabetes. There’s a big maternity wing too.
Please tell anyone you think might be interested, and here’s a photo of the hospital.
