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Action and Impact in Lawra, Ghana
I recently returned home from my trip to Ghana and I cannot help but feel a sense of excitement as well as an overwhelming warmth about the last 2 weeks. My time there has been rewarding and enriching, and I feel I am a more mature person as a result. Over the last 10...
SNAP Mothers Small-Scale Business Training Programme
Action Through Enterprise (ATE) is on a fight to eradicate poverty of all forms in Lawra, using reliable and sustainable strategies that are within the reach of our beneficiaries. The SNAP mothers small-scale business training programme is a poverty alleviation...
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...
Today mums, dads, grandparents and disabled children gathered under the mango trees in Basebele for a historic moment – the first ever meeting of our newest SNAP group. In a place where disability can be seen as a curse, the fantastic turn out – 23 children and 65 adults – was a real statement of how life can change for the better.
This is our 9th SNAP Group. We reach nearly 900 people each month, making a profound difference to the lives of disabled children and their families.
“As a grandmother caring for my granddaughter, I worry a lot about her future. Today I feel very happy seeing this program come to Basebele. I hope it will help her develop her abilities and live a confident and happy life.” Helen (in the top picture)
Read all about it here: ateghana.org/new-snap-disability-group-launches-in-basebele-im-hopeful-my-child-will-learn-grow-a...
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Happy International Women’s Day to all the amazing women out there 💪🏾
We're so proud to celebrate a fantastic new generation of young women who are attending Senior High School. They demonstrate resilience and strength every, against all odds, and they can change the world!
Read about these inspirational young women here: ateghana.org/international-womens-day-you-are-capable-of-achieving-great-things/
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Happy Independence Day Ghana 🇬🇭
It was an honour to be invited to join the celebrations at the Ghana High Commission in London last night.
The evening was such was a wonderful reminder of the pride, culture and unity that mark this important day, and the vibrant community that strengthens the important connections between Ghana and the UK.
Thank you sincerely to Her Excellency Sabah Zita Benson for including us in such a special event.