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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...
Life is hard for many in the ultra rural north of Nandom, most of its 11,000 inhabitants survive on subsistence farming – with poverty incidence in some villages as high as 50%.
Many children arrive at school hungry, are in torn uniforms with broken shoes and desks. Hunger makes it hard to concentrate or stay in school all day, and many don’t even attend.
These children deserve more.
For one hundred and eighty seven pupils in the remote villages of Bu and Tantuo, everything is about to change. From January, we'll be there for them. A daily lunch, textbooks and educational materials will give them the chance they deserve to learn with dignity.
Read more about our brand new 2 school partnerships here! ateghana.org/its-number-10-our-newest-hub-is-coming-soon/
And please let us know if you want to help transform these schools. We have no funding for either yet - a chance to change the whole world, for 187 children 💚
Looking forward to seeing Bu and Tantuo schools benefit from ATE programs. We will be grateful to see them being supported.
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18 teams are heading to Paris, taking part in challenges along the way and raising funds for Action Through Enterprise and the wonderful SpecialEffect!
We’re so grateful to be part of this amazing event.