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Celebrating our newest team member!
Rachel Barker joins ATE as Admin and Finance Officer! Rachel comes from the accounts department of a global market research company. However, having taught maths for a number of years in secondary and primary schools, as well as working with young people who had been...
International Women’s Day 2022 – #BreakTheBias
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias. Every year, the 8th of March gives us an opportunity to reflect on how we are driving forward gender equality in our work – within our organisation, within our programmes, and within ourselves. Are...
Notice of Recruitment in Lawra
Role: SNAP Coordinator Hours: Full time Pay: 600GhC (gross) Location: ATE Inclusion Centre with time spent in rural communities within Lawra Municipality To apply: provide a CV and letter of application to Kaamil Issahaku to the ATE Inclusion Centre in Lawra before...
For the mind to be fed, it takes a full stomach: The expansion of ATE’s feeding programme to Tanchara
Around the world, school feeding schemes have been implemented to take care of pupil’s nutritional needs while promoting their capacity to learn. It does not only help to keep children in the system, but also ensures the wellbeing of all pupils and relieves some...
Recruitment of an Admin and Finance Officer
ATE is a small, dynamic, fast growing and well-respected charity which requires a competent, detail focused individual to play a key supportive role within the team to help drive the organisation forward. Admin and Finance Officer is an exciting, brand-new position...
A Reason to Dream
ATE VocATE SUPPORT PROJECT-2021 Education, Training, and lifelong learning calls for innovative approaches in skills development, which is directed towards poverty reduction and socio-economic empowerment of rural poor and their communities (Geneva, 17 June, 2017)....
Lawra under water: Life on the frontline of climate change
Every year, Lawra experiences flooding during the rainy season caused by torrential rains or the spillage of the Bagre dam in neighbouring Burkina Faso. Most affected by these floods are the rural communities around the Black Volta river. The river and its...
Hermas “International” – the man who’s building Lawra
“I’m making a gate for a customer in Accra, I’m working on the solar panel project on the outskirts of town and…”, he points down the road, “I built this street too!” Hermas, or Hermas “International” as his friends tease, is a big personality and an ATE role model in...
A day in the life of Agnes, a kayeye street girl
It’s 4am and dark when Agnes rubs sleep from her eyes and rolls out of bed. She lights a pile of firewood, arranged the night before, and starts preparing pies. Once piping hot, she packs them into a metal container, heaves it onto her head and sets out onto the...
We’re leaving our Ramsbury Office
We are really sad to announce that we are vacating our Ramsbury Office on 1stSeptember 2021. Due to financial pressure, we are simply not able to afford a a UK office at this time. We love having a workspace in the middle of this wonderful community, and being able to...
Ending the week celebrating an AMAZING start to 2025 in our Spring Newsletter, you can read all our updates here: mailchi.mp/61d62cc8248b/springnewsletter
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Happy Friday everyone!
We're excited to have been invited to give oral evidence at a UK Parliment Select Committee Inquiry next week!
We’ve always known that we deliver transformational change in Upper West Ghana on a very modest budget – and we’re delighted that the House of Common’s International Development Select Committee Inquiry on Value for Money has invited us to share our thoughts.
At this critical time for international development funding, we welcome this opportunity. We’re keen to wave the flag for small grassroots charities and shout about our unique Hub Model – holistic, locally-led and community-focused.
As the smallest NGO to offer written evidence, we are so proud to be asked to continue the conversation with members of the Committee, raising a voice in the Commons for the people of Lawra, Nandom and beyond.
You can read our written evidence below and you can watch our Chief Executive Sarah Annable-Gardner give evidence at 2:15pm on Tuesday 25th March on the Parliament Live website.
The FCDO's approach to value for money - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
committees.parliament.uk
Written evidence submission publications for The FCDO's approach to value for money.Desmond and Elizabeth, and their mums, are delighted with their new bikes! Generously funded by our friends at Fidelity Energy 💚
For a mother of a disabled child in Upper West Ghana, life is relentlessly hard. When children become too heavy to carry, these women face an impossible choice - leave the child home alone, often locked inside to keep them safe, or stay at home with them. This makes it impossible to work or to farm, they become increasingly vulnerable and poverty deepens .
For the children, stuck at home they are lonely, isolated, bored. Excluded.
A bike means they can get out of the house together. They can go to the market or meet friends at church, they can grow food at their farm, children can get to school. Life is so much better for them both.
£80 per bike gives the gift of freedom, and we are so grateful to Fidelity Energy for making this work possible.
This is so lovely
This is so beautiful!🎉💚 Thank you Fidelity Energy for funding this!🙏