Archive

11 Oct

Annual report accounts & inspector’s report 2018

9 Oct

A Brighter Future

For the last ten days, a team from Leicester SpecSavers shops have been screening eyes in Gyetiaste, and distributing second-hand prescription spectacles which they graded themselves before they came. They […]

19 Sep

Light in the Darkness!

Blindness is life-threatening in the Ashanti villages.  Farmers with cataracts find they can’t distinguish corn from weeds;  women can no longer collect water or cook;  children have a life expectancy […]

18 Sep

Save The Date!

Are you coming on Ashanti Development’s annual sponsored walk this Saturday 21 September? Meet at St Pancras Old Church, London NW1 1UL at 2pm for a walk down the Canal […]

28 Aug

Promise from the hospital to keep it in good conditions!

The photos show abandoned rooms in Mampong Maternity Hospital.  The hospital was deprived of much of its funding under previous governments, and now needs renovating and re-equipping throughout.  This is the […]

19 Aug

Great harvest in Ashanti this year!

There’s going to be a great harvest in Ashanti this year, all the more so if you’re on Ashanti Development’s farm support scheme. The first two photos show Nana Ababio, […]

12 Aug

Signing the Future

Signing the Future This new signpost stands at the junction of the main road and the Bonkron road to the Gyetiase (or Jetiase) eye clinic. We’re not sure why patient […]

1 Aug

Ashanti Development’s Tenth Anniversary Party

Ashanti Development’s tenth anniversary was celebrated on Saturday July 27.  The Ashantis cooked us a wonderful Ghanaian meal, Mike made us a birthday cake, and despite the weather everyone seemed […]