Our mission: ‘To relieve poverty and promote health and development in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana by means including the provision of safe and accessible water’.

In 2005, London-based Ashantis asked their neighbours to help improve the quality of life of people in their home villages. These had previously been relatively prosperous cocoa farmers, but from around the turn of the century, climate change set in and it became impossible to grow cocoa as a commercial crop.

The people diversified into ‘Sahara’ crops – yams, plantains, groundnuts – but were not successful as they had no tradition of growing anything other than cocoa. Streams shrank and became highly polluted. People were hungry most of the time and many women were forced into prostitution to feed their families.

Over the last 20 years, Ashanti Development has helped improved the quality of life of people and communities by means including the following projects. In all our work we give priority to women, children, the disabled and the vulnerable and collaborate closely with the local authority. In every village we work to strengthen the Committees of Chief and Elders and Unit Committees to the point where they can maintain the improvements independent of us.

Whether our activities are run directly by our management team or by other volunteers, many of us would welcome a hand – even more so if you’ve got relevant skills. If you’re interested in volunteering in Ghana, contact us to talk it over. And even if your skills don’t seem particularly relevant, contact us just the same. We’ve got all sorts of jobs that need doing.

We monitor our work closely for the first five years and less frequently thereafter, and we arrange for our volunteers to carry out evaluations. All staff and volunteers adhere strictly to our Safeguarding Policy.

You can view our safeguarding policy here.