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ATE is delighted to be able to announce the recruitment of Ernest Tampouri as our new Project Assistant in Lawra! Ernest has been a key member of the ATE team as a volunteer, Consultant and ambassador since 2014. He then became a Small Business Owner in July 2015....

There  has been a long standing history of keeping bees in Lawra where the climate and vegetation are sufficiently fertile to produce the right conditions for beekeeping to survive successfully. For the past few years, beekeepers  in Lawra have been few and far...

Luke Hodgson, who had been involved with ATE both as a volunteer and employee for just over 2 years, leaves today for pastures new in the USA. Sarah and her team are immensely grateful to him for his dedication both to ATE and the people of Lawra. The depth of his...

I went to the movies last night. When I say 'movies', it was in Ramsbury's village hall. I saw a short film (twenty minutes?) about a local girl, a primary school teacher, who'd gone to work for a year in a remote community in North-western Ghana. I will confess to a...

'An empty sack cannot stand.' With those words Habib Albeboure captures the reasons why ATE was founded in 2012. He is the main narrator in the recently released and much anticipated documentary, highlighting the work of ATE in Lawra, Upper West Ghana. The film was...

Dry-Season Gardening    The following article is a summary of a feasibility report produced by Gabriel Maanibe outlining the issues with, and support needed to encourage dry season gardening. Gabriel's brief was to examine the desirability and usefulness of ATE...

What is Give as you Live? Give as you Live is a shopping and price comparison website with a heart. You can shop for products from thousands of leading online retailers; use their price comparison tool to ensure you get the best price and even save money by using the...

Apprenticeships are a fantastic way for people to acquire the technical skills necessary to learn a trade on the job, enter a profession and generate income. In places like Lawra, where poverty rates are high and job opportunities are low, this applies even more so....

A team from ATE attended the Aldbourne Community Spring market last Sunday, armed with brochures, information about ATE’s work, stories from recent trips to Ghana, and items to sell from some of our small business owners. As well as this, ATE was selling honey on...

I would like to thank the staff and consultants of ATE in Lawra for showing us around so generously on our latest visit. I have been fortunate enough to witness from the sidelines, life before ATE and the journey it has taken. What really struck me on my visit, three...