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We had a great walk on Saturday, all nine miles of it. Father James of St Pancras Old Church gave us tea, chocolate cake and his blessing before we set off and a record number of people attended – 28. Donations are pushing £2,000 and still going up.   Our thanks to everyone who came […]

We are lucky to include BasAid among our donors. The organisation is based in Basle and funded by chemical and other major companies. Not only have they funded many of our projects, but they are now collecting secondhand spectacles and shipping them to Ashanti for our eye clinic. Apparently on days when the clinic is […]

In 2014 we gave one water filter to every household in Mprim village, where we’d lost hope of finding a good location for drilling a borehole. We expected the filters to last for five years and told the villagers many times that they would have to pay for replacements themselves.   In fact many of […]

Thank you to everyone who came to our party last Saturday.  The rain held off, the sun came out, the food was great – and it was so good to see so many donors and volunteers and supporters again.  

There’s been a long-standing debate about two different points of view in relation to our clinic at Gyetiase-Nsuta.  One part say it’s essential to build a wall round the clinic.  Otherwise, they say, the animals will rub up against the existing walls and leave them very grimy.  The second part says that walls are scary, […]

Our clinic at Nyinampong, which opened 18 months ago, now has electricity, clean water in every basin, six trained nurses and a midwife. The clinic serves 8,000 people. In its first three months it treated 530 people, some more than once. They included 88 pregnant women, 17 of whom gave birth, 179 malaria cases, 25 […]

A few days ago, we wrote how volunteer Ruth had raised enough money to provide worm tablets for 5,000 children in Sekyere Central District. With the help of the District Health and Education Services, this week the tablets are being distributed, mainly to settler villages. Thank you again, Ruth, for raising the money to fund […]