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VocATE apprentices are making leaps and bounds in their training.
VocATE is our apprenticeship scheme that supports young women, with little education or opportunities for training, to learn valuable vocational skills. Traditionally apprenticeships in Ghana take three years and are very difficult to access without family connections...
Call for Children’s Books!
Launch of ATE’s 6th School Feeding Program!
Earlier this year, I spent several days riding around the district searching for the next community for ATE to work with. We found Biro - a village, an hour from the center of Lawra, inaccessible by car with no electricity, no mobile phone network and extreme poverty....
Eat for ATE
We are lucky enough to receive incredible ongoing support from so many people. One of our generous friends is Karen Barraclough, who has been supporting ATE since the very beginning. As part of her contribution, Karen raises money for us by organising 'Eat for ATE'...
New School Feeding Program!
ATE is extremely proud to have launched a school feeding program at Lawra Girl's Model Junior High School in Lawra today. This brand new girls school, established in September 2017 by Ghana Education Service, is a unique opportunity for 34 vulnerable teenage girls in...
We need your permission to stay in touch!
Let’s keep in touch! Because regulations about how organisations contact supporters are changing, we will be getting in touch to ask for your consent to keep in contact with you in future. So, why does ATE ask to have, keep and use your contact details? The...
Recruitment of a Project 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 Project Assistant. The successful candidate will have...
My week in Lawra, by Adam Quinn
My week in Lawra We are incredibly grateful to Adam Quinn and his family; they have been supporting ATE and spreading awareness of our work in Hungerford for a long time now. But when they told us they told us they wanted to be even more involved, we were...
Musical workshops for SNAP children in Lawra, By Janet Hodgson
Hi, I’m Janet. I work as a piano teacher in two local schools in Highworth and have the privilege of sharing my love of music with my pupils on a weekly basis. So back in November, when Sarah, CEO of ATE asked me to lead a music workshop for children in Lawra, you may...
SNAP takes centre stage for 2018
SNAP is taking centre stage in ATE operations for 2018. The most significant programme development will involve the building of a brand new, purpose-built SNAP building! Through a generous grant from the District Chief Executive we have acquired a plot of land...
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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