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Agado, our beekeeper has 18 hives and set up 26 more in the villages where we work. He visited today to say 3 hives had been destroyed by wild fire and honey would be sparse this year since the land is so dry. Climate change affects everything here and makes survival harder.

Thanks to all the volunteers, friends and donors who came to our networking meeting yesterday, and thanks to Softwire, the computer programmers, for hosting us. 

We should be well into the dry season in Ashanti, but it’s been raining solidly for several months. Climate change means that it’s very hard to predict the seasons, but at last it looks as if the weather’s changing and we can start outdoor work again. The photos are of Esereso community, when Nicholas (left, […]

For the last ten days, a team from Leicester SpecSavers shops have been screening eyes in Gyetiaste, and distributing second-hand prescription spectacles which they graded themselves before they came. They worked very long hours and saw nearly 2,000 people. In most of Africa, a child who goes blind has a life expectancy of one year, […]

Blindness is life-threatening in the Ashanti villages.  Farmers with cataracts find they can’t distinguish corn from weeds;  women can no longer collect water or cook;  children have a life expectancy of about a year. Ashanti Development has just carried out fifteen more cataract operations with funding from Hands International and the MCEC.  The patients are […]

Are you coming on Ashanti Development’s annual sponsored walk this Saturday 21 September? Meet at St Pancras Old Church, London NW1 1UL at 2pm for a walk down the Canal to Limehouse. We hope to see you there.