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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We want to thank to Freddie, our newest volunteer, who appears in the first photo. Freddie ran a half-marathan to collect money to sponsor a village, and then he went to Ashanti to choose which village to help. He chose Mantukwa, a village of migrants who had walked south from the Sahel to escape the […]