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ATE’s Covid-19 Response: Standing Together
Together we are facing a truly unprecedented situation. The Covid-19 crisis is bringing about huge change to all of our lives, to our work here at ATE and the charity sector, whose role as society’s lifeline is now more vital than ever. With coronavirus being a truly...
Saviour Domoyaga
Each Tuesday and Thursday morning, the ATE team in Ghana are greeted by various children with their mothers and grandmothers- the occasion being our weekly SNAP PlayScheme. Children and their guardians will walk many miles often to make it to our 8.30am PlayScheme,...
Recruitment of Hub Support Assistant
ATE is a young and dynamic charity that is making a significant impact in Lawra, Ghana. As a result of significant growth, we are looking for a capable, enthusiastic and hardworking person to become an ATE Hub Support Assistant. The successful candidate will be...
ATE Inclusion Centre Stakeholder Event
On a hot, sunny Wednesday morning in Lawra, Upper West Ghana, our ATE Inclusion Centre was host to our ATE Stakeholder Event this January. Along with our ATE Ghana Inclusion Centre team, we were joined by Charles Gardner, ATE Chair of Trustees and 40 key stakeholders...
SCATE: Shaw Community link with Action Through Enterprise
We are excited to announce that St Mary’s Church Shaw is hosting a community event to celebrate Shaw’s on-going link with Action Through Enterprise (ATE). Information and Networking Evening Thursday 12th March, 6 – 7.15pm St Marys Church, Shaw, RG14 2DR Drinks and...
My trip to Lawra, by Dee Anderson
This is the second time I have visited Lawra. The first was in 2014 when ATE was in its infancy. It has been wonderful to see how ATE has grown and developed since then. I had the great privilege of working with Ernestina and Kaamil, the SNAP staff. They both made me...
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...
The most brilliant week at ATE, delivering wonderful work across Lawra and Nandom, and putting plans in place for so much more! From teaching the next generation to code to cooking eggs for our 1100 children as they finish their school year. Our work brings us joy every day.
And to top it all off, our wonderful supporter base have come through with funding for ALL of the girls in Gombile to go to school in September. Donations that will completely change lives.
We love our work, we love everyone who helps make it happen.
Bring on next week! Hopefully it'll be even better....
Thank you everyone ❤️
Impactful project
Can you help us give these girls a chance?
Blessing, Nancy and their 13 friends have just finished junior high school in the remote village of Gombile – and we would desperately like to support them to go on to Senior High School.
If they don’t go, they could end up migrating south and working in illegal mines – or staying at home, where they could become pregnant or married while still teenagers. The thought of it fills us with dread.
But if we can keep them in school, they can be safe, educated and become independent, self-sufficient young women. If we don’t raise the funds needed by August, it will be too late for them.
It costs £700 to change the trajectory of a girl’s life, and provide everything she needs for her three years at senior high school. Please get in touch with us ASAP if you’d like to help – you could make a one-off donation of £700 or a set up a monthly payment of £20 for three years. We’d be delighted with either!
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help.
Sarah Annable-Gardner I will Support one of these girls 👍
Thank you so much to the 4 amazing people who have already been in touch about this project, and funded 5 girls to go to SHS in September ❤
Just 4 girls to go now ♥️ thank you to everyone who’s got in touch. If anyone else can help please let us know x
8 girls now funded ❤ 7 to go x
⭐️ 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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