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Recruitment of a Project Assistant
Recruitment of Project Assistant ATE is a young, dynamic charity which is making a significant impact in Lawra, Ghana. As a result of significant growth, we are looking for a Project Assistant. The successful candidate will have responsibility for the monitoring of...
Recruitment of a Fundraising Officer and an Operations Officer
Recruitment of a Fundraising Officer and an Operations Officer ATE is a young, dynamic charity which is making a significant impact in Lawra, Ghana. As a result of significant growth, we are recruiting both a Fundraising Officer and an Operations Officer. These are...
Lawra statistics – UN Report 2010
Over the past month, Luke has spent some time looking at the UN Human Development Report from 2010 in order to provide some background information about the area of Ghana that ATE works in. He has been able to pick out some particularly interesting facts that the...
Albert Kuuire
Albert has three children attending Karbo primary school, Felicia in KG2, Velabekyaa in P3 and Zuviel in P6. He says his children are enjoying free books, pens, uniforms and feeding and healthy learning. He’s a farmer and works very hard to feed the family. Sometimes...
Pip’s Lawra trip. 8th November to 22nd November 2015
This was my 4th trip to Ghana to visit Lawra District and see how our ATE projects are going. With each trip it has got less challenging in terms of adjusting to the heat, the change in diet and learning more about the local customs. It has also got more and more...
Lamissi Karbo
Lamissi started trading in small dried fish known as “keta boys”, onions and palm oil in October last year with the help of a small business grant from ATE. Before this she had only made small amounts of money from irregular work in chop bars where she would wash...
Zambo Weavers
Portiru, Vida and Nteryne have a business together weaving and selling traditional cloth. The three of them were part of a women’s association in Zambo which met once a month when ATE attended to discuss opportunities for support with enterprise. Portiru has been...
St Mary’s Infant School raise £217 at their Harvest Festival
St Mary’s Infant School in Marlborough raised a fantastic £217 for ATE at their Harvest Festival. In the spirit of this ancient festival, the children gave thanks for a successful harvest, sang and danced, and shared with others by donating money to feed school...
Exciting Opportunity for Sponsor
We have exciting news! In January Asif Noorani (founder of Epiphany Productions www.epiphany-productions.co.uk) and Graham Tilley (cinematographer) are coming to Lawra to film ATE’s work. This is to create film footage of ATE’s story with a view to helping the charity...
Lord Joel Joffe Sets ATE a Challenge
‘It is remarkable to have achieved so much in such a short time and to have already made a difference to the lives and future of so many children’. These are the words of one of our major supporters, Lord Joel Joffe, former Chair of Oxfam and passionate campaigner for...
“My journey was not easy, but ATE held my hand. Today i wear the green uniform of nursing training college with pride. Thank you for making my dreams reality”
Through her teens, Agnes was student in term time and a kayeye street girl in the holidays. She travelled south and worked from 4am everyday selling meat pies on the side of the road, to return to Biro every September with a pair of sandals and a dream of something better for her future.
When Byron Wigglesworth interviewed her in 2021, he asked her what she wanted to become, ‘I will be a nurse’ she beamed, looking down at her sandals. Her quiet confidence shone through. From a community where almost nobody before her had made it to tertiary education, she knew exactly what she wanted for herself - against all odds.
Agnes has been determined to succeed, and she’s done it. Today her dream has come true. She’s training to be a nurse.
We are hugely inspired by her, this incredibly young woman who is forging her own path. We're proud to be part of her journey.
Her story from 2021 is moving and beautifully written by Byron, read it here here: ateghana.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-agnes-a-kayeye-street-girl/
We can’t think of a better way to spent a Friday morning than taking a moment to celebrate Agnes 💚
Such an inspiring journey! 💚 Agnes is just one of many girls with incredible potential, but whose circumstances and lack of support can limit their opportunities. Stories like hers remind us why creating opportunities matters Action Through Enterprise - ATE.🎉
ATE is an excellent organization that has done extremely exceptional in the Lawra municipality and beyond. I can say this because I had been fortunate to work with this organization on a part time base and trust me Action Through Enterprise is a blessing. As we pray for its continuous growth and success, I stand on my authority to plead with everyone putting efforts to make this work, to continue and be assured that you are making a difference. I have worked with Sarah Annable-Gardner from the beginning and I can confidently say you are making a great impact in society. To the founders of ATE, donors, trustees consultants and everyone involved, I say good work done. To the beneficiary from the various models , please I advise you to make this effort by ATE count just like Agnes and even better. Opportunity they say come but once.
So happy for Ages that she has achieved her dream, she gives me hope ❤
Great 👍. Impactful
Congratulations Agnes and God bless the founders and donors of ATE 💕💕
The smile alone defines it all. After all the fear of failure, with the help of ATE your long time resilience came through. Congratulations dear 🎉🎉
Wonderful! Go Agnes!
Congratulations
We are fully horrified by this statistic. 53,414 teenage girls pregnant in Ghana in the first half of this year, and even worse - 1501 of them were between 10 and 14 years old.
It makes us feel sick. And it drives us to do more for young women.
Making sure girls can stay in education, that they have the basic tools they need to learn, changes everything. It empowers them, provides structure and purpose, educates them on their rights and enables hope for the future. Ultimately it protects them.
This September, we’re supporting 40 girls to go on to senior high school. 40 amazing young women who otherwise wouldn’t be able to go, who tell us they would have been had to travel south to earn money, or get married. 40 lives changed forever.
It is the single most powerful thing we do.
And the very best bit, is that we’re beginning to see long term results. Girls we supported back in the early 2020’s have now graduated. They have jobs, are training to be nurses, or at university. And they’re volunteering for us when they can, supporting the next generation. They are strong and capable, they have bright futures ahead.
These horrible statistics, and the anger we have about every single girl who this has happened to - they remind us why we do this work.
Thank you to everyone who helps make it possible 💚
Thank you Pilates with Carrie for putting on a Cake & Coffee Morning to support our disabled children in Ghana 💚
Carrie's amazing Mum, Dee Anderson, has been volunteering for us for over a decade, travelling to rural Ghana twice a year to train our inclusion team in using play in learning. She is a hero, and we're so grateful to have Carries supporting us too.
£70 raised already! Every penny makes a difference and is appreciated so much.
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