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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...
Webmart donates to ATE!
The children of Karbo Primary School in Lawra, Upper West, Ghana say a massive thank you for the £100 donation from Webmart to Action Through Enterprise (ATE). Webmart's support has provided a school meal for the 464 pupils at Karbo Primary for one day, plus an extra...
Mercy Urfa
Mercy has been a cook at Karbo primary since the ATE school feeding programme began three years ago. She was volunteering as the treasurer of the PTA but was not working until she was informed about the programme and put forward as a cook. Mercy lives with her four...
EducATE at Dowine!
In January we begin providing free school meals to 211 students at Dowine Junior High School! Free school meals are a vital support for a child’s education. Families in this area experience five months of food insecurity every year and for three of those months, most...
Fundraising at Thatcham Festival with the Trinity Community Choir
Trinity Community Choir gave a heart-warming concert as part of Thatcham Festival on Saturday 17th October at the Baptist Church, Thatcham. Directed by Ann Wright, the choir of 80 men and women performed a mixed programme from Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven to...
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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