ATE Chief Executive Sarah Annable-Gardner becomes MBE in 2026 New Year's Honours!
Switching on Hope
We’ve been switching on hope all year in Upper West Ghana! One thousand school pupils, 800 disabled children and carers, 34 entrepreneurs and farmers, 20 apprentices, 18 senior high school girls and hundreds of children at our new Technology and Learning Zones are all making the most of new opportunities, support and resources – to transform their lives.
And there’s more to come in 2026! We’ll be partnering four new schools, launching two disability groups and supporting even more people to grow businesses and learn skills. This is how whole communities are uplifted and change is real and long-lasting. This is hope..
Change through education
We work with 13 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 4100 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 174 small businesses with grants, training and mentoring, enabling them to become sustainable and profitable. 82 girls (including 9 with disabilities) have learnt a trade through our apprenticeship scheme. Barikisu (above) runs one of 37 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 almost 800 children and carers across 8 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.”
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We are financially transparent and carefully monitor and evaluate our work to ensure the money you donate is used in the best way possible.
84p 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 27 school cooks and other staff.
5p 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.
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⭐️ Our 2025 Annual Report is here ⭐️
What a year! 2025 was truly a year of switching on hope. Across Lawra and Nandom, through a million small but thoughtful acts - a school lunch, a book, a wheelchair, a bag of fertiliser, an IT session, a business grant - we are enabling people to change their lives, to support their families and uplift their communities.
In the hardest of places, we are making miracles happen.
Thank you to everyone who made 2025 our best year ever. We couldn't have done it without you.
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This beautiful film celebrating our Girls to SHS project stars Olivia, who we’ve supported since she was 14 and now works for us. She was born into deep poverty, and is now a shining light of success and a role model to her whole community, she gives other girls hope. We are so incredibly proud of her.
This year, we have funds for girls from Biro to go to Senior High School, but none (yet) for the 12 girls from ultra rural Gombele who have graduating JHS this year. It costs £700 to change the trajectory of a girls life, please get in touch if you’d like to help. If we don’t raise the funds needed by August, it will be too late for them.
Brilliant video.🎉 Well done Saa Olivia🌟 And thank you to all the people who are helping to make the dreams of these girls come true.🙏
Amazing work Saa Olivia! Kudos to everyone who contributed to this incredible project 🎉🎉
Impactful. Through collaborative support. We can change the society
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Thank you Kanyir Kuube-isaan
An important part of our inclusion programme, is ensuring disabled children can access education- both at mainstream and specialist schools.
Today Ernestina Gan (Inclusion Coordinator) went to check in on our children at Wa School for the Blind, including Collins who needed a specially adapted laptop.
He’s doing brilliantly at school, and has a bright future ahead.
“Thank you ATE for getting me this laptop. With it, I don’t need to copy lesson notes or print out my assignments anymore. I will just need to install all my textbooks onto the laptop and read them with so much ease. I want to be a lawyer in future”
Our work tangibly changes lives, and creates opportunity. Collins was always brilliant, he just needed someone to make sure he could meet his potential.
This initiative will go a long way in supporting Collins' education. Thanks to Ernestina Gan and everyone who contributed to this wonderful cause!🤞
So lovely🥰🥰
Inspiring🙌
Keep impacting lives
Well done bro
Thank you,ATE for the opportunity to make difference . Seeing Collins receive the support he needs is inspiring. I'm proud to be part of this life changing journey.
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Great. Impactful
This is beautiful!🎉🙏
Love this. Brilliant work Ernestina Gan.
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