Stephen Hodgson – February trip review

There are times in life when you just have to get on and commit to do things, even though at the time you might not fully understand why. My wife Janet and I committed to support ATE Ghana at its inception: financially through a monthly direct debit from our Company...

Sara Thompson, Journey of a Volunteer – Week 3

It’s been all change this week with the departure of Team 1, Charles and Dr. Nick, and the arrival of Team 2 – Pip Gardner, Karen Gardner, her boyfriend Ross, and a film crew – Graham and Asif. These last two are here to make several short films about ATE and the work...

Sara Thompson, Journey of a volunteer – week 2

The second week began on a Saturday. Normally a possible weekend day of rest but, in spite of the extremely relaxed pace of life out here, life doesn’t appear to stop in Ghana and so we spent the morning holding another workshop with the consultants. It was amazing to...

Sara Thompson, Journey of a volunteer – week 1

Having been the ATE bookkeeper for 7 months I was very keen to find out more about the work that ATE does and to see for myself firsthand the difference that the charity makes to so many extremely poor people in Lawra, Upper West Ghana. It was decided in October 2015...