World Humanitarian Day – Kaamil Issahaku

On this World Humanitarian Day, 19th August, members of ATE team give their thoughts on what it means to be a humanitarian aid worker. Read the thoughts of ATE’s Special Needs Awareness Programme Leader, Kaamil Issahaku, here: I have been an aid worker for some...

World Humanitarian Day – Sarah Gardner

On this World Humanitarian Day, 19th August, members of ATE team give their thoughts on what it means to be a humanitarian aid worker. Here are the reflections of founder and Chief Executive, Sarah Gardner: The founding principal of ATE was to directly respond to...

United Against Racism – #BlackLivesMatter

Like many people around the world, we are deeply shocked and outraged by the recent racially motivated events in the United States. The murder of George Floyd (as well as Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and too many others), the subsequent state-sanctioned violence...

Fear, Pride and Heartbreak – by Sarah Gardner

The last 2 months have been a whirlwind. A rollercoaster of emotions, and (another) steep learning curve. In the days that followed my realisation of what the pandemic could mean for ATE, I was deep in fear and anxiety. I was kept awake at night with a series of...

ATE’s COVID-19 Response Timeline

For so many of us around the world, we have been faced with unprecedented challenges in a turbulent and scary time as we enter the fifth month of the global pandemic, COVID-19. Our work in Upper West Ghana was immediately threatened when the cases of Coronavirus...

INCREDIBLE! HOW DID HE DO IT?

Started in 2012, ATE is a charity organisation with the goal to reduce, if not to eradicate, poverty in Lawra. A number of programs were strategically put in place in order to tackle this old and well known issue. Among the programs is the one we call BizATE which...