Develop a Village

At Ashanti Development, we believe the most important benefits we can give a village are clean water, household latrines, and training in health and hygiene.

These three elements are equally important. Together they bring huge improvements to the quality of village life.

We invite every individual, every family, every company or group of friends to sponsor an African village by funding the materials and skilled labour needed for each household to build its own latrine. Meanwhile, we will train the community in health and hygiene, and strengthen their governing bodies so they can maintain the improvements independent of us.

The cost of providing water varies so we fund it ourselves, arranging if possible for several boreholes to be drilled at once to achieve economies of scale.

If you could help in this way, you would undoubtedly save lives and earn the undying gratitude and friendship of a whole village. 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.

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* (Sponsored 2026)	25	8,500
Dome* (Sponsored 2026)	50	8,500
Amoaman (Sponsored 2026)	130	30,800

Villages which have already been sponsored

Each latrine is used by around twelve people, meaning a total of around 50,000 will have access to a 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