The farm year starts around now, and farmers will soon be busy planting new crops. Ashanti Development already trains farmers in 51 villages in farming and marketing, and we’re busy recruiting more villages to join the scheme. The pictures show Nicholas, our Country Director, explaining the scheme to farmers from Odumase village and Odumase Komkoma, which is the part of Odumase where migrants from the Komkoma tribe have settled.
As we come to the end of the year, we would like to shed light on two Ashanti Development-trained farmers who won awards at Farmers Day at the beginning of December. Razak Kwamang Frimpong of Amoaman won the best Youth Farmer Award in Sekyere Central District, and Johnson Agyei Douglas of Bobin won the best municipal carrot farmer in Mampong Municipal District. Congratulations to both.
We were honoured to be presented with a special award by the Sekyere Central district assembly. They said that Ashanti Development was the best charity to have worked in the district, and chief after chief made speeches in our support.
Have a great Christmas everyone ✨
Dome village has its own borehole, but we need a second for the clinic we’re building there. In the past, to drill a borehole we’d hire a drill rig with its team and a supervisor. Nowadays Nicholas, our Ghana Director, supervises the work himself, making it a lot cheaper. The photos show the clinic borehole being drilled.
We recently bought a foetal ultrasound and a printer for the clinic at Nsuta. A few weeks ago we dropped by, just to check everything was working properly, and managed to take these photos.
Between October 2022 and June 2023, 226 newborn babies passed through the new Mothers and Babies’ Unit we built at Mampong Hospital.
The Hospital tells us that seven babies died but that 219 lives have been saved so far. It says that neonatal mortality at the Unit is 0.003.
Nicholas Aboagy, Ashanti Development’s Ghana Director, kindly showed me around Gyetiase and projects beyond when I had the pleasure of visiting the charity’s base last Wednesday. It was amazing to see the photos come to life and put people to names. Ashanti development is making a real, positive impact for generations to come and everyone who is a part should be extremely proud of themselves.
– Amy, Volunteer Social Media Coordinator
These photos were taken at farms near Bimma Village, one of the first villages where we ran our farm support scheme. One photo shows a nursery for young plants, and the other shows a groundnut crop. We’ve got two farm support officers working full-time at teaching farming to over forty villages now and Nicholas has been out inspecting some of them. He says all are doing very well and he thinks there’s going to be a great harvest. This is great news. It means an end to hunger in those villages.
Margaret, our newest volunteer, is organising a Holiday Gala to raise funds for us in Edinburgh. It will consist of a Ghanaian dinner and dance, plus an auction, at the Life Church in Davie Street. Tickets are £15 for adults and £10 for children. For more information, contact +44 7940 283075. We’d love to see you there!
