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The 2017 BizATE Small Business Conference, by Alice Delemare
This wasn’t my first visit to Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana. As a former Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) volunteer I worked in the neighbouring district for two years and visited Lawra several times. When asked if I would travel back to the Upper West in...
Help ATE and become a Christmas Big Give pledger!
You have an exciting opportunity to double your donation towards ATE this Christmas - we need YOU to pledge a minimum of £100 towards the Big Give Christmas Challenge What is the Big Give Christmas Challenge? The Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest online...
ATE has taught me the ‘culture of saving’
By teaching the concept of saving, our Small Business Owners are able to grow their businesses and care for their families Rufina is a weaver in Lawra town with her shop in an excellent location where she is guaranteed regular customers and steady foot traffic. When...
Nicky’s Story
Why i'm doing the Ride London 46 On 30th July, I'll be cycling 46 miles of a spectacular route from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London to The Mall. https://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/events/46/ I'll be pedalling away to raise funds to support ATE's work...
I LOVE ATE
#ILoveATE It's Small Charities Week! A week of raising the profile and celebrating the work of small charities everywhere. And to get it started they have launched an I LOVE SMALL CHARITIES campaign, an excellent opportunity to shout about why you love your...
Meeting Edith
Last month, on a monitoring and evaluation trip to Lawra we spent time in each of our ATE supported schools. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet the individuals impacted by ATE's programmes and to assess how well the programme is operating. During this time we met...
GUBA 2017 – Best Charity of the Year Award!
ATE is extremely proud to announce that we have received the GUBA 2017 Best Charity of the Year Award! The Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards (GUBA) is a platform to celebrate, recognise and support Ghanaian-based individuals, businesses and innovation in the UK as...
Ruth’s Story
#JustKeepPedalling! As my Mum and good friend Larney once said to a training-wheel-dependent, tantrum-throwing, young Ruth, "Goddam it Ruth, just keep pedalling!" After completing 2/3 of the Busselton Ironman 70.3 (swim and run legs) in Team Dad and Daughter...
James’s Story
Next Saturday, James Higgins will be taking part in The Marlborough Downs Challenge. This is a brutal 33 mile race through the beautiful Wiltshire countryside with over 3000 feet of climbing. The race promises to be a challenge, with no route markers and is almost...
Recruitment of a Trustee
Recruitment of a Trustee - Specialising in International Development ATE is seeking a passionate development professional to add to our well established, committed and highly skilled board of five trustees. We are looking to appoint a new trustee with knowledge of...
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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