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Our Ashanti Development medics Chris and Helen recently visited our projects in Ghana. Here is what they got up to: – Met new staff at Sekyere Central District Health Directorate and re-established their village screening programme. – Ran a screening programme in the villages of Ankumadua and Jansa, testing adults for TB, diabetes, HIV, syphilis […]

Thanks to our donors BasAid, who sponsored a project to replace kerosene energy with solar, we saw solar panels wherever we went in Ashanti. Many of them were on the roofs of migrant houses, and the photos below show how they are even used to charge mobile phones.

The Maji Water Dispenser has just been installed in our home village of Gyetiase! It is an electronic tap that allows people to collect water using prepaid WaterCards which helps to settle disagreements about how much water has been drawn and where the money went (people buy water by the jerrycan, and the profits are […]

Good news! During our recent trip to Ghana, we visited the Mothers and Babies Unit that we built last year. We found the incubators and baby radiant warmers all occupied – 37 babies is the record monthly score – which pleased us a lot. We were told about one mother who had given birth to […]

These photos are of Nkwanta Primary School in Ashanti. There was a hole in the roof, so all the children were sent home when it rained. We agreed to mend it, and then found the structure was not particularly safe. So Nkwanta became a larger than anticipated project. We strengthened the superstructure, aligned the brickwork […]

We managed to drill two successful boreholes in our home village of Gyetiase last month. The photos show the second which was drilled late into the night, and struck water close to our headquarters building.

Happy new month 🙂 Today we share a photo of when Chris Hartley-Sharpe, Ashanti Development’s co-chair, was recently in Ghana and bumped into a former client of our eye clinic. The photo shows the patient explaining how grateful and how much better his life was now that he’d had cataract surgery and could see again. […]

We’ve just drilled two new boreholes in our home village of Gyetiase, where the population will soon have outgrown the water supply. Both hit water at 140 metres but we have yet to test them for water quality and quantity. We’re hoping that the borehole in the centre of the village will pass both tests, […]