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Recruitment of two Technology and Learning Coordinators and two Library Assistants
Action Through Enterprise (ATE) was established in 2012 and is now a well-respected, fast-growing charity, aiming to transform communities and create opportunities in Upper West Ghana through key initiatives in education, enterprise and inclusion. We are excited to...
Helping Paul Achieve his Dreams
Paul is a 19year old boy from Amburi, a small community in Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He is a twin, and the fourth child of his parents; they are five children in total – three males and two females. Both his sisters have dropped out of school at the...
Girls in the UK and Ghana both have periods, but their experiences are vastly different
“Women have periods. That’s just biology. Yet, in Ghana, many can’t go to school because they can’t afford sanitary pads. This is an outrage.” Izzy Tolputt, 17, Wiltshire For the past 2 weeks I have been doing work...
Recruitment of a Hub Manager and two SNAP Coordinators in Nandom
Action Through Enterprise (ATE) was established in 2012 and is now a well-respected, fast-growing charity, aiming to transform communities and create opportunities in Upper West Ghana through key initiatives in education, enterprise and inclusion. We are excited to...
Soup for SNAP!
Our wonderful volunteer Dee Anderson has been a huge support to our with disabled children ATE since the very beginning. She first came to Lawra in 2014, when we had 30 children gathering in a rented room once and month, and now, with her help, we run a vibrant...
Recruitment of Nandom Inclusion Centre Security Guard and Cleaner
Action Through Enterprise (ATE) was established in 2012 and is now a well-respected, fast growing charity aiming to reduce poverty in Upper West Ghana by delivering key initiatives in education, enterprise and inclusion. Information about the work of ATE can be found...
“We are the voices for the people” – Helen Gala, SNAP Coordinator
“My social work experience has brought less discrimination and more love and acceptance in the lives of mothers and children.” Supporting disabled children and their carers – who often face horrific abuse and discrimination - has always been a vital part of...
Lawra in the House of Lords
Historic, heart-lifting night, as Minister of State Andrew Mitchell MP and former Hub Manager Julius Maaire join forces to support Action Through Enterprise. “I am really, really impressed by what you are doing.” Andrew Mitchell MP “I'm not speaking for me. I'm...
11 go to Lawra
By Charles Gardner – January 2024 Since 2012 many friends have had to put up with me talking about Action Through Enterprise, Lawra and the Upper West of Ghana. Many a conversation ended with an invitation to join me on my annual visit to Lawra. This led to six...
A busy start to the year!
After a much needed two week break for all ATE staff, we’ve flown into 2024 with excitement, big plans and a LOT to do... We were so pleased to see our 857 children return to school after their break. School holidays always make me anxious – it’s a time when...
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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