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Peace has been making Kenkey, a popular Ghanaian staple made from fermented maize, for many years but her business collapsed in 2012 when her husband had a serious accident. She used all her savings to pay for his medical care and had no capital to continue her trade....

Following a talk from Sarah Gardner to the children and teachers at Farleigh School, some inspired children have carried out some fantastic fundraising to support ATE's work in Ghana. Here's an extract from their newsletter: 'Congratulations to Skye Dowling, Tilly...

Kuorisen came to his parents’ home town of Lawra from Techiman and started school in P1 aged five. Along the way he dropped out of school to do farming. He lost his father and his mother lives in the south, so he has lived with his father's older brother for the past...

ATE's Special Needs Awareness Programme (SNAP), provides education and support for children with disabilities and their families. In Ghana disability is not often discussed in terms of diagnosis but Patience explains that when her daughter, Michelle, was 3 years old...

Kuunibe Zupuo – 13 years old, P4, Karbo Primary When Kuunibe woke up this morning she didn't have anything to eat in the house and she hardly ever does. She lives in a compound house with her grandparents, parents, aunties and uncles, 4 sisters and 4 brothers, one of...

Kanyiri Godfred, a team member for ATE in Lawra, pens his thoughts and experiences of the process of weighing and measuring all 654 students that attend Karbo Primary and JHS. A detailed report into our findings will follow in due course. '17th July, 2015 was a day...

Patience is an enterprising 28 year old woman. Five years ago she started out selling chips (hard dough based snacks) and boiled eggs with pepper. Today, having used her ATE grant and the business know-how she gained to expand, she also sells second-hand clothing,...

We are now half way through our three weeks of goiter screening across Lawra District.   We are carrying out this study to find out the extent of iodine deficiency amongst women of child-bearing age, between 15-40 years old. The right levels of nutrition and...

Sitting in the cool dappled shade of his courtyard, David explains that he learnt his trade in rearing pigs from his uncle at the age of 19 when he lived in the south of Ghana, in Takoradi. He has now lived in his home town Lawra in the Upper West for the past 10...

Throughout her life Zupuo has sold millet, maize and beans. She travels to Hamale, an hour or two away, to buy stock from her regular suppliers and then sell in Lawra. In the past, without the business capital to buy stock she has taken loans of 1,000 Ghc from money...