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...

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...

Action Through Enterprise – thanks and welcome!

“Our strength is our people, and our current team is really, really strong. My biggest achievement has been putting that group together.” Charles Gardner, ATE Chair of Trustees 2012–2023   From small beginnings to the successful charity we are today – and looking...

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...

The story of ATE in Biro

In 2017, I spent several days riding around Lawra, searching for the next rural community for ATE to begin working in. It was a boiling hot day in November when we came across Biro, a very rural community, an hour from the centre of Lawra, impossible to access by car,...