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Three years, Swiss charity BasAid helped us run a major drive to tell people about the harmful effects of using battery-powered lamps and kerosene. BasAid funded the distribution of solar lamps as an alternative. Today, the lessons seem to have been learned. Many people have switched to solar power, which of course they can also […]

While we’re waiting to know whether Mosi-Kura village’s abandoned borehole can be repaired, the drill rig is getting busy. It will soon be drilling in Ebuoso, a little village in Mampong District that must have never thought it would get so lucky; in Domeabrea, which was recently sponsored for latrines but needs clean water; and […]

Poor Mosi-Kura. Geophysics tell us that the water is is about 200 metres underground – too deep for a borehole. But Mosi-Kura has one more chance. There’s a 40 year old abandoned borehole just outside the village. We’re sending mechanics to see if it can be repaired.

Geophysics are on their way, the drill rig isn’t far behind and Ashanti Development has been given funding for boreholes in four new villages, all badly in need of clean water. We’re also funding latrines and hygiene in the village of Mosi-Kura (trans: Mosi’s Home), a community of settlers from Burkina Faso driven south by […]

In memory of Seth, who for many years was our good and hard-working caretaker. He died last week and we are all so sad to have lost him.

We’re very grateful to the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists for sending us pens, pencils and exercise books. We used them for our tree-planting project. We ask every child within three years of leaving school to plant and look after a sapling and reward them from time to time with little prizes. After three years […]

There’s a stigma attached to covid19 in Ghana, and people are often loath to admit they have it. Also, causes of deaths are often unknown, or recorded incorrectly. For these reasons we are hesitant about accepting the Ghana Government’s official figures for coronavirus, below,which cover the whole period of the pandemic, though they certainly much […]