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In the blink of an eye, we can change a life, or two
Recently, I was pottering around Lawra Town and a sweet young boy came over to me to tell me he was hungry. Despite the poverty we see across Upper West Ghana every day, it isn't often I am asked approached in this way by children, which shows the desperation of this...
Creating Magic
ATE are extremely fortunate to work with the supporters, staff and volunteers that we have as part of our wider organisational family. Donors and supporters provide us with the funds vital for our programmes, whilst staff and volunteers drive the impact forward. When...
An UpdATE, from Sarah Gardner
I am proud to be the Chief Executive of Action Through Enterprise, a small charity doing brilliant work in Lawra, Upper West Ghana. We empower communities and individuals to better their lives, we give the support that’s needed for bright motivated people to meet...
Change happens one person at a time
Each month ATE hosts three SNAP (Special Needs Awareness Programme) meetings across the Lawra District; the first Wednesday of each month, the Inclusion Centre hosts Lawra SNAP meeting. The second to last Saturday of the month, one of our partner schools, Dowine JHS...
What a day!
This week I shared the Iceberg Theory with the team in Ghana. It’s an interesting concept that can be transferable with its use. Its main message is around what you do versus what others see- often a job, a project or an outcome is seen by many (the visible), yet the...
ATE’s Christmas Card Competition!
ATE is looking for talented young artists to create our 2019 Christmas Cards! We are taking entries from children in Ramsbury (and surrounding areas) and in Lawra, and will select at least one winner from each place. As well as being beautiful and Christmassy, we’re...
Akwaaba to Lawra!
In June I hopped on a 6 hour plane, and a 17 hour overnight bus, to work with ATE in Lawra, Upper West Ghana for a month. Having worked for ATE for six months as a Research and Projects Intern, supporting the team with the variety of projects which the charity runs, I...
School Dropout at Gombile Junior High School
'The main reason for ATE’s initiative to feed pupils in some selected deprived Junior High Schools in the Lawra Municipality is to ease access to basic education in those rural areas. This initiate drove most children back into schools not only in the Lawra Township...
Opportunity to join ATE’s board
Action Through Enterprise (ATE) has an exciting opportunity to join the board of our dynamic, small international development charity working to reduce poverty in rural Ghana through access to education, small business development and inclusion for disabled children...
Fighting Poverty and Insecurity Through Sustainable Businesses
By Jessica Cruse, Interim Director of Operations This August our ATE team in Ghana have been busy training local small business owners across the Lawra District and what a success it has been! For two weeks, the ATE Inclusion Centre was able to host training to over...
We're still celebrating the Third Sector Awards!
Read all about it here: ateghana.org/action-through-enterprise-wins-big-at-awards/
A huge round of applause for your achievement Ernestina Gan 👏👏
Congratulations 🎉🎊🎈
You did great job, congratulations! 🎉
Congratulations 🍾🎊
Whoop whoop - so well deserved
Congratulations to you Sissy 🙌🎊❤️
Congratulations 🎉🎉
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We’ve won! 🏆🎉❤️
We are absolutely delighted to be named Small Charity Big Achiever at the Third Sector Awards 2025! This is truly wonderful recognition of the huge impact we make on our small budget.
Plus, our amazing Ernestina Gan was Highly Commended as an Unsung Hero - so well deserved and incredibly special.
We’re raising a glass across two continents. A huge ‘cheers’ to Action Through Enterprise, to Ernestina Gan (who will always be our Hero), to our team and our beautiful work.
Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉
Congratulations 🎊
Congratulations
Well done!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Congratulations to Us and a HUGE ONE to you Ernestina Gan-well deserved!🎊🎊🎊
Huge congratulations - well deserved ✨ and well done Ernestina Gan
This is well Deserved 👏 congratulations to everyone!
Congratulations 👏
Beyond proud of Action Through Enterprise - ATE, our incredible team and our wonderful work. Two awards is completely beyond expectation and overwhelmingly wonderful! Such fantastic recognition of our impact 💚
So pleased for you all hard work paid off. Congratulations all 👏👏
Congratulations everyone at ATE Such an achievement. Well done Sarah. So well deserved. Xx
How fantastic and so utterly well deserved xxxx
💕💕we’ll done ATE, lots of love Sarah xxx
Huge congratulations to the whole ATE team! Well deserved. So incredibly proud of you Saz ❤️
Wow that is amazing and so well deserved. And special congratulations to Ernestina who has made such a difference to so many.
Congratulations! Incredible work xxx
Amazing Sarah Annable-Gardner. I’m so happy for you and your wonderful charity. A well deserved award and well done to Ernestina x
Fantastic , whoop whoop hooray. Couldn’t be prouder, just shows hard work and dedication and a great team what you can do ❤️❤️❤️❤️😊
Wow amazing!! Huge congratulations and so well deserved xxx
Congratulations to the whole team at Action Through Enterprise - ATE and a big one for Ernestina. Well deserved 🎊
Congratulations 🎉 Action Through Enterprise - ATE and to Gan Ernestina
Today is the awards ceremony for the Third Sector Awards where we are shortlisted in TWO categories! Whether we win or not, we are incredibly proud to get so far in the process, of this fantastic recognition and (most of all) of the outstanding work we do every day. We already feel like winners.
In the Small Charity Big Achiever award, we can’t imagine a better candidate for first place. By global standards we are a tiny organisation, but the impact we have is truly gigantic. For every disabled child we enable to thrive, every entrepreneur that can run a successful business, every school girl who can continue her studies, every farmer who can grow crops all year round – our support means everything, and it makes us so proud. We’re a small team punching well above our weight, reaching many thousands of people on a small budget, and making real, long term change.
And in the Unsung Hero category….. Ernestina Gan, we are so incredibly proud of you. From the moment you came to your interview for SNAP Coordinator back in 2018, you have been dedicated to the disabled children of Lawra. That day, you blew bubbles and laughed with the children, you were so kind to the parents, you were confident that you could make their lives better – and you have done exactly that. You have worked tirelessly, always with such passion, empathy and commitment. You have grown your skills, battled through difficult situations, spoken up when you have needed to, and been kind and calm throughout. The milestone of getting 100 disabled children into school is a miracle, and you have made it happen. You are an inspiration, and we are so lucky to have you. In our eyes, there is no better candidate for this award - you are our Hero.
We feel like winners every day. We’re bursting full of hope & ambition for our wonderful charity, and gratitude that we’re able to do what we do. Award winners or not, here’s to an exciting future of change ✨
Congratulations,award well deserved 🌹
Congratulations to her. Hard work really pays.
Congratulations 🎉👏
Congratulations ! Huge impact and achievement
Congratulations in advance 🎊🎉🎈
Congratulations for the opportunity. I wish you the best of luck you deserve it all.
Good luck you all deserve it. The hard work you put in is amazing 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks so much! I'm grateful for the recognition and support.
Congratulations
So proud Action Through Enterprise - ATE. Congratulations to us for this huge recognition ❤️
Congratulations
Huge congratulations to Action Through Enterprise - ATE and Ernestina Gan on the well-deserved recognition!🎉🎉 Fingers crossed for a win 🏆
Love this 💚 So proud of Action Through Enterprise - ATE and especially our wonderful Ernestina Gan.
Congratulations 🎊
Congratulations 🎊