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It’s the time of year again for our Annual Summer Party! If you are around please pop by and chat with us about the work we do and to celebrate just how far we’ve come. Hope to see you there!

Life is busy in Gyetiase village, where Ashanti people have been planting fruit trees round our headquarters building, not least to prevent erosion. The photos show the result – watermelon, cocoyam and other plants are all doing well, while mango, avocado, guava and apple are planted on the other side of the building. The single […]

Worms cause serious harm to Ashanti children, including discomfort, constipation, diarrhoea, malnutrition and mental dullness. Where the infection is gross, children develop huge protruding bellies that leave them hardly able to walk. They can lead to profound mental and physical retardation, and even death. The photo shows Ashanti Development volunteer Belinda Ottu presenting 17,000 doses […]

Ashanti Development has around thirty villages on its Farm Support project, with more to come next year. Everyone’s hoping that the weather will hold and that they’ll get a bumper crop. That includes Mr Dwormoh in the brown shirt, working hard at his maize farm. In the blue shirt is Nana Yaw Adu. This year, […]

African bees behave differently from UK bees. To become a bee-keeper you need to build a hive in an appropriate place, cross your fingers and hope the bees will like it enough to move in. The pictures are of bee keepers at Mantukwa village. They’ve made twenty hives which they hope the bees will like. […]

Welcome back to our great friend and colleague, Ab Roy, who runs two SpecSavers shops in Leicester. Ab has given our clinic all the equipment you would expect to find in a UK SpecSavers shop, and – with a gap for the pandemic – each year he brings over a team to carry out a […]

The Ghanaian Health Service has recently initiated a national emergency ambulance service. Our medics Chris and Helen met some of the local team, who were enthusiastic and currently responding to about one emergency call a week. Feedback was given that the team are underutilised, for example because people don’t understand that the ambulance is available […]