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My Trip to Lawra, by Charles Gardner
Highlights of My Visit to Lawra (January 2019) I have just returned from Lawra in the Upper West of Ghana, having spent 2 weeks there. My primary purpose was to work with the ATE Ghana staff on delivering our training to the ATE-supported small businesses, I also met...
Job Opportunity in Lawra!
Recruitment of SNAP Play Scheme Coordinator Do you enjoy working with disabled children and their families? Are you kind, enthusiastic and compassionate? Would you like to help ATE improve the lives of people in Lawra? If the answers the above questions are all YES,...
High-Ho! High-Ho! Off to Ghana I go!
Following a recent talk at a U3A coffee morning by Sarah Albeboure, the Chief Executive, of a local charity ATE (Action Through Enterprise) based in Ramsbury, I am off to volunteer in Ghana!! I met with Sarah a few weeks after the coffee morning as I said I would like...
ATE’s Christmas Newsletter
2018 Christmas newsletter Newsletter No: 10 – Christmas 2018 A message from ATE’s Chief Executive: I can hardly believe it’s been over six years since ATE began. It’s been an incredible journey… From our beginnings as a family-run, volunteer-led, tiny organisation, to...
Finally! A good use for an old plastic bottle…
The dry season is traditionally a time when farming ceases because of the unavailability of water, with the people of Lawra choosing to stock pile resources during the rainy season to tide them through. Anecdotal evidence collected from school students, suggests these...
Recruitment of a Project Assistant
ATE is a young and dynamic non-governmental development organisation that is making a significant impact in Lawra, Ghana. We are looking for a capable, enthusiastic and hardworking person to become an ATE Project Assistant. The successful candidate will have...
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018
ONE donation, TWICE the impact The Big Give Christmas Challenge is an opportunity for you to DOUBLE your donation to ATE! From midday Tuesday 27th November until midday Tuesday 4th December We’re delighted to announce that from 12pm on 27th...
A Sign of the Times- Joseph the Plumber
Joseph’s thriving plumbing business is a sign that things are changing in Lawra. He installs WCs, wash basins, showers, sinks and polytanks. “I enjoy doing quality work. And it’s making people’s lives easier – so they don’t need to go to the borehole to fetch water,...
A Day in the Life of Janet
4am – wakes up, prays, cleans house, sets fire. Then, she goes to the well to get water, warms water over fire and bathes her 3 year old daughter Patience. No breakfast. 7am – leaves for work. It used to take 2 hours to walk, but now ATE has helped her buy a bike for...
VocATE Apprentice Janet securing her future as a seamstress
At “something between 25 and 30 years old” Janet is a bit older than most ATE-supported apprentices. But, if anything, that means she’s making even more of the opportunity. Two years ago, she was selected to be the apprentice of Teresa, a seamstress who received a...
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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