Ashanti Development’s dressmaking school in Gyetiase is currently making masks for us to sell as Christmas presents. (£6 each plus £1 postage and packing.) They’re very popular, and well made.
Please let us know if you’d like to order some (we’ll give you discounts for quantity) and tell us your favourite colours.
Our new Ashanti stall at Bucks Market, part of Camden Market has a surprise visit from our principal patron Keir Starmer last week.
The preliminary results of a pump test on the borehole we just drilled in Asarenkwanta show that there’s a large amount of water in the borehole. A water quality test will be carried out next to make sure it’s good for drinking.
That’s really good news for the village. Provided the water quality is good they will be able to sell some of the water to nearby villages and make some profit for themselves.
The pipe which carries water between Gyetiase and Tadiesa villages was destroyed by a contractor working on the road. Luckily, before ever this happened the villages had been saving money by selling water, so they had a small fund in hand. And last week they spent Tuesday – which is a day dedicated to communal labour – digging the trenches for new pipes.
We’ve sadly just cancelled our sponsored walk in London, scheduled for September 19. Boris’ new rule about meetings having to have less than six people was the reason.
However there are four separate sponsored walks (of under six people) being held in different parts of the country, so all is not lost.
The figures are showing the number of people who have affected by the Covid19 in Ghana since the start of the pandemic.
In Saviour Benin, the only source of drinking water was a shallow polluted stream. Then Izzy generously funded a borehole, which we tried to drill a few weeks ago, but the drill rig got stuck in the mud. The weather let up for a while recently, and we had another try. It took all day but finally, just before midnight, we hit water. The community is ecstatic.
The photos show a brand new delivery bed which one of our Directors (in fact, David Rees himself) has just funded for the David Rees clinic at Ankamadua. According to Madam Mercy, the midwife in charge of the clinic, it will make deliveries much easier and there will be fewer complications. Madam Mercy is full of praise and thanks for David.
Ashanti Development has been given a share of a stall in Camden Market. It’s located in the new Bucks Market – down a corridor to the left of the photo with Bucks Market written up.
Martha Boadu, who’s running the stall, is Ashanti Development’s founder. She’d love it if you could drop in for a chat but best check with us which days she’ll be there before going.
We just had two very successful drillings at the villages of Aframano and Asarenkwanta, and then disaster struck! We were trying to drill a third borehole at Saviour Benin in Sekyere Central District, but the drill got stuck in the mud and the attempt was abandoned. We won’t get another try until October/November when the rains stop.
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Aframano:
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