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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, […]

On the left of the picture below is Prosper. He has been working for us for about a year now. Prosper is a graduate of agricultural college and teaches people farming, including Mariama Issah, a migrant from the Sahel. Mariama is happy because she’s just harvested her maize crop and finds she’s got over double […]

Ankamadua latrine project is proceeding fast with the whole community working hard. So far 140 latrines are being built, of which fifty are complete. Madam Akua is full of praise to the sponsor and asks for god’s blessing on them. She is happy that she no longer had to go to the bush in the […]

Help us to continue making a difference to the health, development and livelihoods of communities across the Ashanti region in Ghana by becoming a volunteer fundraiser. See below for more details and please feel free to get in touch. Ashanti Development was set up in 2005, when London-based Ghanaians asked their friends and neighbours for […]