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29 August 2012

A stroll down the canal How about joining on Ashanti Development’s annual sponsored walk down the Regent’s Canal.   It’s always a very pleasant event, and a good time for volunteers, supporters and people who might like to volunteer at some unspecified future date to meet each other. The walk will be held on Saturday 6 […]

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2 August 2012

Abhijit Roy and his SpecSavers shop sponsor the neighbouring villages of Mpantuase and Nkwabrim in Ghana’s Ashanti Region. On a 50:50 basis, Ab and his staff have donated enough money to provide the villages with one latrine per household, to train them in health and hygiene, and to work with their existing organisations (elected village […]

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16 July 2012

Awanya Latrines Good To Go

Great news!  Volunteer Paul Kalinauckas’ crowdfunding project raised over £5,500 for Awanya village.  The job of providing each home with its own personal household latrine – according to WaterAid, a much better solution that communal latrines to serve whole villages – will start very shortly. We are extremely grateful to everyone who contributed.  Your names […]

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3 June 2012

White Arrogance

White Arrogance – What the Africans say about what the Whites think of them e-book by Antonella Sinopoli, in Italian with links to original articles in English.  4.10 euros Antonella Sinopoli is a journalist and documentary maker as well as being founder of Ashanti Development Italia.   Her latest work, White Arrogance, is an ebook which […]

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30 May 2012

Crowdfunder

Awanya village will benefit from volunteer Paul Kalinauckas’ project to raise £5,000 to Develop A Village in Ashanti. Somehow or other, Awanya has learned the connection between hygiene and disease, and is desperate to have household latrines for the whole community. It’s now ringing two or three times a week to see how much money […]

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1 May 2012

Fund-raising lunch in Padua (Italy)

Ashanti Development Italia recently organised a lunch in Padua to raise funds to build a kindergarten in Adutwam village, Ashanti. Among the sixty guests were Alfred and Colin, two sons of Mr HK Marfo, our Director of Programmes in Ashanti. After presentations from the hosts, Alfred and Colin and their wives, all wearing tribal robes, […]

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14 April 2012

Adopt a Village – Penny chats with Zoe from Zone One Radio

Penny spoke recently with Zoe Cunningham from Central London community radio station Zone One Radio about our Adopt a Village programme. Listen to the interview below and get in touch if you’re interested in getting involved.

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2 April 2012

A new Facebook page and an updated website

We have a new Facebook page! Please visit us on Facebook and ‘Like’ our page to keep up to date with our latest news including videos and photos. You can also follow us right now (on Facebook or Twitter) using the buttons on the right hand side of this website. Don’t worry – we’ll still […]

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