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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 […]

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.