One donation, twice the impact
Please help us raise a huge £20k this week in The Big Give Christmas Challenge! This is a vital campaign for us, to ensure we can continue to transform communities, one family at a time. Your kind donation will be immediately DOUBLED – this week only!
Watch this beautiful video to hear Lucy’s inspiring story, and the difference your donation can make.
Change through education
We work with 9 schools, providing meals, educational resources and sanitary products that enable pupils to learn on full stomachs and with dignity. So far, we’ve helped more than 3000 young people access education. Olivia (above) goes to Bagri Junior High and appreciates the monthly sanitary pads provision:
“It helps us come to school. We girls are much happier.”
Change through enterprise
We have backed 135 small businesses with grants, training and mentoring, enabling them to become sustainable and profitable. Forty-eight girls (including 7 with disabilities) have learnt a trade through our apprenticeship scheme. Barikisu (above) runs one of 24 ATE-backed dry season farms:
“ATE gave me all I needed to succeed.”
Change through inclusion
We bringing disabled children into the light, challenging stigma and enabling them to learn and laugh. Our SNAP disability project supports 600 children and carers across 6 locations, providing education, equipment, medication, advocacy and lots of joy. Tierto (above, with Julita and Charles) says:
“The main reason I love SNAP meetings is I know I am not alone. I have learnt new things, I worry much less, life has improved.”
Where does your donation go?
We are financially transparent and carefully monitor and evaluate our work to ensure the money you donate is used in the best way possible.
82p goes directly towards project costs
Creating opportunities through education, inclusion and enterprise – such as our Dry Season Farmers programme which supports sustainable agriculture all year round.
11p is spent on fundraising
Giving us the resources to pay for projects, plan for the future and provide job security for our 23 school cooks and other staff.
7p is spent on administration costs
Ensuring we can deliver our annual report, be a responsible employer and fulfil our legal responsibilities in the UK and Ghana.
What we’ve been up to
New base almost complete!
It’s happening! Construction of the new Inclusion Centre in Nandom is almost complete, with a new roof on and interior work underway. The finished building will be the heart of our work in Nandom – where we will run workshops for disabled children and their carers, training for small business owners and – eventually – an IT suite. We are so excited to see the new centre full of children laughing and playing with their friends.
We start work this spring with the recruitment of a Hub Manager and two disability programme coordinators who will spend a month shadowing our team in Lawra and then return to Nandom to kickstart the projects in their own community. Exciting times!
Businesses set for success
Our Inclusion Centre in Lawra was a hive of activity last month as 29 entrepreneurs joined us over two days of business skills training. Our brilliant team of trainers use interactive, engaging, peer-led facilitation techniques that are vibrant, fun and promote meaningful learning – all delivered in the local language. Margaret, a business owner who has recently graduated from the programme, told us: “It’s not just the money, it’s what you have taught me.”
One of the sessions was a team favourite – “The Business Game” – a day-long role-playing activity, devised by our co-founder Charles Gardner, which is both highly effective in developing skills and leaves participants in hysterics! We can’t wait for the next session.
Our latest posts
Here is the wonderful Lucy, direct from Biro this morning, with an update on our Big Give Christmas Challenge ❤️
We are so incredibly grateful to every single person who has donated to our campaign this week. We've raised a massive £17,108 so far, and are overwhelmed with kindness we've received from so many people. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all.
We would love to hit our (ambitious!) target of £20,000! So if you can make donation, please do so at this link: bit.ly/atebg2024
Thank you so much to every single person is helping us change the world, one Lucy at a time ❤️
Thank you all for your donations, you can still help us hit our target by donating! One Lucy at a time!🌟🙏
⭐️🎄DOUBLE YOUR DONATION! 🎄⭐️
Please help us raise a huge £20k this week in The Big Give Christmas Challenge!
This is a vital campaign for us, to ensure we can continue to transform communities, one family at a time. Your kind donation will be immediately DOUBLED this week only!
Watch this beautiful video to hear Lucy's inspiring story, and the difference your donation can make. We'd love to hit our ambitious target, so please consider helping us to do this by making a donation at bit.ly/atebg2024 ❤️
Thank you so much.
ATE🇬🇭 is helping many individuals and families re-write their stories in a more inspiring way, and Lucy is just an example of such individuals.. I’m inspired by Lucy’s growth through her determination and resilience. Let’s write more inspiring stories together! Your donations make the difference 🫵#TheBigGive Christmas Challenge
Happy Friday 💚 We’ve ended the week with deliveries of educational materials to children all of our partner schools. Vital and joyful!
Where pls, Nandom or Lawra?
Amazing work, well done everyone 💚
Great works ATE🙏
This is really amazing
Beautiful smiles 🙏
Brilliant!