Category

We’re looking for new outlets to sell the goods produced by the women who attend out dressmaking school in Ashanti. Most of these women are single mothers – a lot have twins – and their lives are incredibly hard but once they have graduated from our school they can make a good livelihood for their […]

The picture is of Abena Mansah of Asare Nkwanta, one of the villages benefitting from Ashanti Development’s farm support project. Abena is growing rice. Her Farm Support Officer reports that the rice is currently at the flowering stage, that she is controlling weeds well throughout the farm, and applying fertiliser correctly. We aim for at […]

Ashanti Development’s scholarship scheme currently provides for 24 boys and 24 girls to continue their education in senior secondary school. Results so far showed that all 48 would have qualified for university if they’d applied, but unfortunately their funding ended after four years and so too did their education. We therefore decided to look for […]

We advertised in the last issue of Ashanti News for donors who would sponsor poor students through university. Our existing sponsorship scheme provides funds for the last three years of their education, but until now we’ve had no money to give them for university costs. Our appeal for funding has generated promises covering five students […]