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Tuesday May 19, 7.30pm   Ashanti Concert
St Pancras Church,  Euston Road, London NW1 2BA
Tickets £10 from http://ashanti-concert.eventbrite.co.uk or 0207 837 3172
– Henry Roche (piano), Jonathan Reid (piano), Matthew Tosca (violin) and Nan Atichatpong (tenor) perform music by Bach, Moscheles, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Faure and Chabrier.

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Saturday May 2, 7.00-10.00pm    A Taste of Ghana (Shropshire)
The Belmont Hall, New Street, Wellington, Telford TF1 1LU
Tickets £10 in advance from www.atasteofghana.eventbrite.co.uk or £15 on the door
– a fun filled event with a choice of Ghanaian Food.  Award winning Ghanaian author Ni Aykwel Parkee will also be performing/reading from his work.

Mpantuase Phase 2

The second phase of Mpantuase water project (see below) is 98% complete and it will be commissioned by the sponsors on 7th April, when Martha will be visiting.

It includes a bedroom for the caretaker, kitchen, store room, shop and waiting area, which will also serve as a community area for the people of the village. It has eight wooden benches for people to sit on.
The community will decide what is to be sold in the shop. It will probably include farm input like seeds, chemicals, fertilizers, cutlasses etc.

Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.

Mpantuase has got a brand new kindergarten, thanks to the generosity of their Chief, Nana Ab Roy, and SpecSavers in Hinckley and Lutterworth.

Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
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These photos are of the moringo tree. It’s apparently terrifically nutritious, and Martha recognises it and hopes she’s seen it in Ashanti. If so, it might make a world of difference.

Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
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For many years now, Ashanti Development has received grants from a Swiss charity, based in Basle. From time to time, they’d send someone to Ashanti to inspect the way we’d spent their money, and – since the work was carried out by Nicholas – the result was always great satisfaction.

One of the inspectors retired recently. He set up his own charity, and decided to base his operations in Mpantuase/Nkwabrim. There, he commissioned Ashanti Development to drill and commission a new borehole, and also build a storeroom and house for the person who looks after and levies the charges for the water. Here’s a photo of of the house.

"For many years now, Ashanti Development has received grants from a Swiss charity, based in Basle. From time to time, they'd send someone to Ashanti to inspect the way we'd spent their money, and - since the work was carried out by Nicholas - the result was always great satisfaction. One of the inspectors retired recently. He set up his own charity, and decided to base his operations in Mpantuase/Nkwabrim. There, he commissioned Ashanti Development to drill and commission a new borehole, and also build a storeroom and house for the person who looks after and levies the charges for the water. Here's a photo of of the house."
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Lovely photos of the Volta River, courtesy of Dawn and Paul.

"Lovely photos of the Volta River, courtesy of Dawn and Paul."
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The beeskeeping training course ended. In the picture the participants proudly show their diploma. In the other pic one moment of the pratical lesson.

Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
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… and speaking of drums, here are a couple of photos of the ones Goldington Green Academy bought for Gyetiase Primary School.

Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
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Martha visited Goldington Green Academy in Bedford recently.
The school is twinned with Gyetiase Primary in Ashanti, and recently saved enough monyey to buy Gyetiase a set of drums.

Martha told the children what it was like to grow up in Ashanti, and about the traditions and festivals the people observed. The teachers reported that she was fantastic, pitched it just right,and how staff and children loved her talk, So if you know a primary school that would welcome a talk from Martha – or indeed if you know a school that would like to be twinned with an Ashanti school – please let us know.

Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
Ashanti Development's photo.
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More news from the front, ie Paul and Dawn.

Yesterday was the semi final of the Africa cup of nations, as we all know. We also know that ghana was playing against Equatorial Guinea in that semi final. The tension in the village, indeed in the entire country was palpable all day. Would the power supply hold out for the game? Would they tease us by turning the power on at 18:00 to turn it off again at 19:45 as the game began?More on this later.
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No photos for you at present, but here’s a recent round-up of life in Gyetiase from Paul and Dawn, who are organising a bee-keeping training course there next week

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Local news is that the power cuts are every bit as bad as nicholas reports. We get perhaps 3 or 4 hours per day? Today it came on at about 6pm and off at 6:20 pm after a power surge blew the transformer in mampong. Perhaps it will come back later after the c…

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Moringo Tree

These photos are of the moringo tree. It’s apparently terrifically nutritious, and Martha recognises it and hopes she’s seen it in Ashanti. If so, it might make a world of difference.

 

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A New Client in Mpantuase

For many years now, Ashanti Development has received grants from a Swiss charity, based in Basle. From time to time, they’d send someone to Ashanti to inspect the way we’d spent their money, and – since the work was carried out by Nicholas – the result was always great satisfaction.
One of the inspectors retired recently. He set up his own charity, and decided to base his operations in Mpantuase/Nkwabrim. There, he commissioned Ashanti Development to drill and commission a new borehole, and also build a storeroom and house for the person who looks after and levies the charges for the water. Here’s a photo of of the house.

 

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Martha Visits Goldington Green

Our Chair, Martha Boadu, visited Goldington Green Academy in Bedford recently.   The school is twinned with Gyetiase Primary in Ashanti, and recently saved enough money to buy Gyetiase a set of drums.

Martha told the children what it was like to grow up in Ashanti, and about the traditions and festivals the people observed. The teachers reported that she was fantastic, pitched it just right,and that staff and children loved her talk.   So if you know a primary school that would welcome a talk from Martha – or indeed if you know a school that would like to be twinned with an Ashanti school – please let us know.

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Tables and Chairs for Kyebi

Kyebi is quite a large town, not far from Ashanti Development’s headquarters.  It’s very very poor, but it’s always seemed too big for us to start working with.

Still, it’s nice to be able to do little things for them. The District Director of Health recently asked if we’d donate some furniture for Kyebi’s new clinic – and here it is being delivered on the back of Daphne, our new vehicle.

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Gyetiase Office

I’m sure you’ll agree that Ashanti Development is becoming a mega elegant organisation. Here’s a picture of our extremely up-market, on-trend offices in Gyetiase. One room will be an office for Nicholas, a second is an office for a microcredit supervisor, and there’s also a storeroom.SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA

Worth Going Out Of Your Way For

The District recently asked if we’d pay part of the cost of a latrine block beside Kwamang Hospital, for the patients. David was very keen – he’s invented a nifty new latrine design, much cheaper than the normal KVIP – so we agreed.

Unfortunately, David’s design only partly worked because it involved the latrines standing back-to-back, while the hospital needed to have them all in a row. That way, they could check that patients who used them were OK and didn’t need help getting out and back to their beds.

Despite this, the latrines were cheaper than most. The District contributed Ghc1,960, and we paid Ghc 6,737. And they look much better than the old KVIPs too. Four star latrines at least, and well worth going out of your way for.

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