An evening of dance, featuring members of The Royal Ballet including Principals Edwart Watson, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather, will be performing in aid of Ghanaian charity Ashanti Development.
Sunday 2 February 2014
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, SW7 2BS
Box office: 020 7591 4314
Ticket prices: £35, £28, £25
Comfort, Yah and Janet are very happy because their village, Adutwam, recently joined in our microcredit project. They’ve been through the training, worked out business plans, and now they say they’re earning good money with their loans.
Better still Swiss donors, BasAid, have just made Adutwam a grant to buy a gari mill, producing long-life cassava. Adutwam will pay back on microcredit terms, and then the money will be recycled to another village.
The photo shows Paul becoming Chief of Awanya Village. Awanya invited him to take this on in thanks for his effort in collecting (via Crowdfunder) enough money to give every household its own latrine.
Paul was born in Ghana, and given the Ghanaian name of Kwasi Mensah at birth. In Awanya, he took the vacant stool formerly held by Kwadwo Mensah – so it was clear to the village that he was an entirely suitable person and probably a reincarnation of the original stoolholder. They put on a wonderful durbar (a meeting with dancing) in his honour.
More photos on Facebook.
Lake Bosomtwe, near Kumasi, is a beautiful place to spend a weekend. This is the view from our bedroom windows.
Ashanti Development @AshantiCharity 6m
http://animoto.com/play/Eme1O0zVHxYVARJLrtCc5A … describes the jewellery industry in Dadease and Mpenya, Dawn and Paul’s sponsored villages. Have a look. This may be the answer to all your Christmas present problems?
Misery – can’t transfer my photos from my iPad to my computer without skilled teenage help. I’m hoping to get some tomorrow (ie teenage help) but meanwhile here’s a SpecSavers video, made for Ashanti Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-IGNKHwpk
There’s a lovely video about Gyetiase by Linda Livni at http://animoto.com/play/EQdLNC6r9JCwlRd0FONPTw
Nicholas’ tree planting competition is getting underway again. Children who are three years away from leaving school pick the saplings they’re going to look after. Prizes for the best tree in three years time.
Here’s a photo of Nana Ab Roy, Chief of Mpantuase Village, dancing at the durber the village held in his honour. The rest of his stay was spent dispensing secondhand specs and testing eyes. He and his team distributed 2,000 specs during the ten days they were there – a fantastic achievement.
We’re currently looking for technical help to post a little video of about what they did, so this is really just a trailer.
