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Since 2004, we calculate that Ashanti Development has sent the equivalent of just under £3million to Ashanti in today’s prices. With this, we have given 70,000 people water, sanitation and hygiene training, as well as help with education, health and livelihoods. A little goes a long way in Ghana.

Worms can have serious health implications. Our team is back at it working hard to reduce these impacts. We work closely with District authorities to do so, the pictures show District health officers distributing 11,000 de-worming tablets to children. We’ve kept back another 6,000 to be distributed next term or reserved for very bad cases.

It’s the time of year again for our Annual Summer Party! If you are around please pop by and chat with us about the work we do and to celebrate just how far we’ve come. Hope to see you there!

Life is busy in Gyetiase village, where Ashanti people have been planting fruit trees round our headquarters building, not least to prevent erosion. The photos show the result – watermelon, cocoyam and other plants are all doing well, while mango, avocado, guava and apple are planted on the other side of the building. The single […]

Worms cause serious harm to Ashanti children, including discomfort, constipation, diarrhoea, malnutrition and mental dullness. Where the infection is gross, children develop huge protruding bellies that leave them hardly able to walk. They can lead to profound mental and physical retardation, and even death. The photo shows Ashanti Development volunteer Belinda Ottu presenting 17,000 doses […]

Ashanti Development has around thirty villages on its Farm Support project, with more to come next year. Everyone’s hoping that the weather will hold and that they’ll get a bumper crop. That includes Mr Dwormoh in the brown shirt, working hard at his maize farm. In the blue shirt is Nana Yaw Adu. This year, […]

African bees behave differently from UK bees. To become a bee-keeper you need to build a hive in an appropriate place, cross your fingers and hope the bees will like it enough to move in. The pictures are of bee keepers at Mantukwa village. They’ve made twenty hives which they hope the bees will like. […]