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Earlier this week the farmers of Fawoman Village were delighted to receive £75 each to buy good farm inputs. Fawoman has fallen a little behind its neighbours in that we haven’t yet found it a sponsor for water and sanitation. However while waiting they’ve joined our farm support scheme and are more than happy.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.