Develop a Village

At Ashanti Development, we believe the most meaningful improvements we can help bring to village life are clean water, household latrines, and training in health and hygiene.

These three elements are equally important, and together they can transform health, dignity, and together can bring huge improvements to the quality of people’s lives.

Supporting a village often means funding the materials and skilled labour needed for each household to build a latrine, alongside training the community in health and hygiene. We also strengthen local governing bodies, so communities are able to maintain these improvements long into the future. Water provision is equally vital but can be more complex. Where appropriate, we support borehole drilling by coordinating resources efficiently. For example, hiring a drill rig for a short period to serve multiple villages, reducing overall costs.

We work in close collaboration with communities, ensuring that their needs are heard and that all parts of the community are represented and the impact of these projects is often deeply personal. We usually advise starting with sanitation. By supporting a village in this way, you can help save lives and build long-term health and dignity for an entire community. Please get in touch for more information.

Latrines become many people’s most treasured possessions. They paint them, keep them padlocked and sometimes make a mosaic of pebbles on the floor. They will probably last a lot longer than the owner’s life.

Here’s how it’s done.

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Come with us to Ghana and choose a village that fits your budget – or we’ll find one for you. Prices start at around £1,000. There’s a list of villages we’ve already costed below, but many many more are waiting for sponsors.

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We’ll use your money to buy materials like cement and wood and to hire skilled craftsmen to teach the villagers to build their own latrines. These are based on WaterAid designs, consisting of a 14-foot deep latrine pit with a wooden superstructure.

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At the end of the work, the whole community will be much much healthier, and diarrhoea, dysentery and infant deaths will be rare. We will send you a final report and check up on the work regularly for at least five years, and less regularly thereafter.

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If you’d like to give your village extra help, have a look at more information on how you can make a difference.

Villages looking for sponsors

Not all these villages appear in the map beneath the table, as some have only recently appeared.

Estimated Households and Initial Costs.

Click here to see more detail. *Priority villages.

Village	H’holds	£
Congo No.3	30	4,100
Atakpame	25	4,250
Congo Junction Village	32	5,440
Asasebonsu	40	6,800
Galiba	45	7,650
Njaya	45	7,650
Nyamebekyere Dagomba	45	7,650
Balana*	25	8,500
Dome*	50	8,500
Amoaman	130	30,800

Villages we have developed

Below are all the villages we have developed so far. The numbers on the right are the number of latrines. This means around 49,248 people will have access to a new latrine.

Village	Latrines
1. Gyetiase	83
2. Tadiesa	40
3. Bimma	104
4. Dida	73
5. Akyease	55
6. Kruwi	86
7. Anansu	86
8. Nkwabrim	76
9. Amangoase	20
10. Old Daamang	26
11. Saviour	18
12. Bonkron	100
13. Patase	5
14. Broyedru	23
15. New Saviour	50
16. Dagati	20
17. Nkwabrim teachers	6
18. Kwagyei	7
19. Abutia	6
20. Ekuor
21. Mpempe
22. Ntenten	12
23. Dome	12
24. Duamo	9
25. Patese	)
26. Kokoben	) 86
27. Sesease	)
28. Atwea	24
29. Abasua	12
30. Adutwan	24
31. Mpenya	) 33
32. Dadease	)
33. Mpantuase	52
34. Pentem	) 64
35. Ongwase	)
36. Bresua	27
37. Kwamang Hospital	4
38. Esereso	38
39. JY	6
40. Abuontem	145
41. Owam	14
42. Abuontem Saviour	30
43. Abonkuso (incomplete)	10
44. Timber Nkwanta	45
45. Nkubeta	45
46. Fawoman (pending)	22
47. Saviour Kwamang	42
48. Brengo	65
49. Brengo Ketiwa	8
50. Mampong (Zongos)	100
51. Hwiediem	55
52. Ebuoso	12
53. Bobin	104
54. Timber Nkwanta II	67
56. Aframano	60
57. Domeabra	25
58. Onyameani (say)	31
59. Pampuosa	200
60. Nsuase	24
61. Tadiesa 2	28
62. Mprim	152
63. Bobin phase 2	48
64. Nkwanta	100
65. Brodekwano Learning Centre	2
66. Krobo	720
67. Mosi-Kura	300
68. Gyamtukorum	100
69. Mantukwa	50
70. Ankamadua	160
71. Jansa	53
72. Fawoman	336