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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...
Join our Board of Trustees
ATE is seeking a passionate development professional to add to our well established, committed and highly skilled board of five trustees. This is a really exciting opportunity for a passionate, knowledgeable person to make a meaningful difference to our dynamic...
Eggs Eggs Eggs!
A day in the life of our Field Staff in Ghana It is the end of the academic year for schools across Upper West Ghana today and schools are celebrating, as also, just as they would in the UK. As students and teachers look forward to a break in education duties and it...
ATE’s Summer Newsletter 2019
ATE's Summer Newsletter Newsletter No: 11 – Summer 2019 A message from ATE’s Chief Executive: This year has been a big one for ATE, we are in a phase of significant growth and improvement. As we professionalise, I feel excited about what the future holds for us, and...
