by admin | Oct 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Following a talk from Sarah Gardner to the children and teachers at Farleigh School, some inspired children have carried out some fantastic fundraising to support ATE’s work in Ghana. Here’s an extract from their newsletter: ‘Congratulations to Skye...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Kuorisen came to his parents’ home town of Lawra from Techiman and started school in P1 aged five. Along the way he dropped out of school to do farming. He lost his father and his mother lives in the south, so he has lived with his father’s older brother for the...
by admin | Oct 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
ATE’s Special Needs Awareness Programme (SNAP), provides education and support for children with disabilities and their families. In Ghana disability is not often discussed in terms of diagnosis but Patience explains that when her daughter, Michelle, was 3 years...
by admin | Oct 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Kuunibe Zupuo – 13 years old, P4, Karbo Primary When Kuunibe woke up this morning she didn’t have anything to eat in the house and she hardly ever does. She lives in a compound house with her grandparents, parents, aunties and uncles, 4 sisters and 4 brothers,...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Kanyiri Godfred, a team member for ATE in Lawra, pens his thoughts and experiences of the process of weighing and measuring all 654 students that attend Karbo Primary and JHS. A detailed report into our findings will follow in due course. ’17th July, 2015 was a...
by admin | Sep 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Patience is an enterprising 28 year old woman. Five years ago she started out selling chips (hard dough based snacks) and boiled eggs with pepper. Today, having used her ATE grant and the business know-how she gained to expand, she also sells second-hand clothing,...