ATE News
Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all! This year has been extraordinary: challenging, exhausting, heartbreaking, with moments of overwhelming joy. Our work has been more vital than ever, as hunger and poverty spiralled. ATE has been there for the people of Lawra, providing...
Chief Executive trains for Santa Run!
Sarah Gardner, ATE's co-founder and Chief Executive, is in training for our 5km Santa Run on 20th December. 'Having spent Lockdown #1 eating Twirls and drinking Sauvignon blanc, i'm determined that #2 will be better for my health! I've started the Couch to 5k with the...
Recruitment of an Interim Director of Operations
This is a really exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the work of a fantastic small international development charity. Action Through Enterprise (ATE) is a looking for an outstanding candidate to direct and manage our vibrant programmes and...
Celebrating Black History Month – Who was the real Lion King?
You’re likely to be familiar with Disney’s Lion King – the animated film, musical and more recent remake – but take a closer look at the history of African empires and African kings and you will see it parallels a true African legend. The story is very similar to a...
Educational Inequalities in Ghana
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed stark regional, social and economic inequalities in Ghana's educational system. On 16th March, days after Ghana confirmed its first case of coronavirus, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced indefinite closure of all schools to curb...
Winner of a Global Good Award!
ATE is delighted have won a Global Good Award in the Community Partnership category for our innovative BizATE work carried out in partnership with Commercial Education Trust. BizATE is a small business development training programme which tackles deepening poverty in...
The Plight of a Disabled Farming Group in Lissa
I had the unique privilege to visit some farmers who are into Dry Season Farming. Spending time with farmers, on the farm, learning about their work was an eye-opening experience. Lissa farming group was one of the farms I visited. This is a farming group of disabled...
Mary’s Story – Small Business Owner
People living around the globe work differently for their daily upkeep. Some work in the formal sector and others in the informal sector. Some businesses in Lawra which form part of the informal sector were not spared by COVID-19. Both women and men in business...
Rufina’s Story – Small Business Owner
The impact of Coronavirus is being felt by all businesses around the world. To help us understand the economic impact of COVID-19 in Lawra, the ATE team have been out in the community, talking with all of our small businesses, monitoring how they have been affected by...
Olivia’s Story – Student at Biro JHS
The longest vacation period basic schools have in Ghana here is after the third term. This is the period between early August to early September. A time students really long for. They buy the books, uniforms, school sandals, school bags, and basic home necessities by...
This heartbreaking, beautiful article was written by Rexford Benon, an ATE Leader in Ghana. Not because we asked him to (we didn't) but because, as he says, 'the story has to be told'.
We've proudly launched a new project to support young women to further education, 7 of our girls have made it against all odds. But Bertha has not.
Rexford tells a common story of poverty and deprivation. At ATE, we are devastated by the relentless struggle, but motivated to do everything we can for the people of Lawra.
Please read, and share. Rexford's voice, and Bertha's story, should be heard.
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No Wonder She Gave Up by admin | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized It is often perceived that the northern part of Ghana is the poorest among all the regions. Hailing from and living in the north, specifica...It such a huge privilege to be one of the families who is supporting one of the 7 girls through the secondary school education programme. We feel so humbled to be able to do this and provide someone with a life changing opportunity at such a small cost to us. We really hope that this programme will go from strength to strength and more lives can be changed for the better in the future
ATE is outstanding in touching lives positively
Very touching story. Thanks Rexford Benon for capturing this.
🌱 Clement is the leader of a group of farmers in Baazing, a very very rural community in the north of Lawra.
🍅 Many of the group are blind. They work together the grow food against all odds, all year round.
🌶 We are proud and grateful to be able to support these amazing people by providing annual financial support to their farm. We’ve been working with them for 6 years.
☀️Right now, they’re growing food, in the toughest of conditions, under a very hot sun. It’s lean season, the hungriest time of the year.
💦 Our cash grant helps them to purchase inputs and equipment, and make sure they have access to water. This makes it possible for their families to eat, and for excess produce to be sold at market.
💰 You can help us to continue this incredibly important work by making a donation via our website: www.ateghana.org
It's so amazing. Supporting the 'less privileged' and our pupils. ACTION THROUGH ENTERPRISE, Lawra is grateful!
Life changers indeed, congrats
You doing a great job for Lawra💪
Incredible work Action Through Enterprise - ATE
Wonderful 💪🙏
Pathways to Success, a brand new publication from our partners, The Comercial Education Trust, highlights the relevance to young people of understanding how ‘business works’ if they are to thrive during challenging economic times. This fascinating insight features our Chief Executive Sarah Gardner, Admin and MEL Lead Rexford Benon, and ATE funded entrepreneur Tanye Hermas. Enjoy!
Tanye Hermas- you’re famous!
This is a huge step in the right direction. Its amazing how many business skills are needed to run a small company, so a good grounding in economics is worth its weight in gold. Well done ATE team!
It's fascinating on how the journey all started. Every great idea demands sums of calculated steps. Glads to the very efforts to bringing ATE to the people of LAWRA.
Just read it!!!!! It has got some inspiring moments in there!👍
Good news