WASH
(Water, Sanitation & Hygiene)

WASH

At Ashanti Development, we believe that clean water, good sanitation and hygiene are the three most important things we can give Ashanti communities, and that all three together are more than three times as valuable.

What we Provide

In Ashanti, we mainly supply water by drilling a borehole, supplemented by rainwater harvesting.

Some villages already have clean water, but in others water provision may be difficult. In many areas, borehole drilling has scant chance of success, and piping water from the nearest town is very expensive. Hand-dug wells sometimes work, and spring protection can help, but everything depends on the village’s location. When all else fails we turn to the SafeWaterTrust’s water filter, which are the only water filters our engineers let us use.

For sanitation, we strike a deal with the village: we say that we will supply all raw materials and skilled labour to enable each household to construct their own latrine, provided they carry out the unskilled labour.

Health and hygiene training is delivered excellently by our expert staff – a very skilled and sophisticated exercise, which is a vital part of the process.

Building Local Leadership

We add one more factor to these three.

We also strengthen the village institutions – including, where they exist, the Committee of Chief and Elders, the Unit Committee, the Water and Sanitation Committee, Women’s Committee, Youth Committee and others – to the point where we are confident they work together smoothly and are able to maintain the improvements independently of us.

Help Us Develop a Village

Your support helps bring clean water, safe sanitation, and vital hygiene training to entire communities – creating lasting, sustainable change.

We’re expanding this life-changing work to support migrant communities too.

Join us in transforming lives, one village at a time.

‘Before we had clean water, I had diarrhoea five days a week, and very badly three times a year. Many babies died in infancy. Now I never have diarrhoea, and babies hardly ever die.’ – Chief of Owam

What we've learned about groundwater in the Ashanti Region

Learn why some wells succeed or fail in villages around Gyetiase and find out how these insights lead to more reliable water supplies for our communities.