During the period 2018-2025, we have improved the lives of about 2000 people in several remote and impoverished communities in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Based on discussions with community members to understand their needs and preferences, we have provided:
Buildings. We built three kindergarten schools, one in Aframano (2022), another one in Kontonho (2024), and a third one in Pataase, Sesease and Kokoben (PSK, 2025). We have improved the education potential of young children, not only by building the schools: we also built teacher accommodation for two schools (the ones in Aframano and Kontonho). This is essential in such remote areas, where teachers cannot commute from home easily.
Boreholes and latrines. We have built a total of five boreholes (enclosed water wells with a pump on top): two in Aframano (2020), and one each in Atonobi (2023), Kontonho (2024), and Anyanhamamu (2024). We built 61 latrines in Aframano, and a covered marketplace there. We have transformed these communities that had no water (except dirty or polluted streams) into ones with plentiful clean water.
Apprenticeship scheme. We now have nine apprentices (four started in 2023, and a further five in 2024; we intend to add more towards the end of 2025). Our apprentices are building new lives for themselves by learning dressmaking (5), electrician work (2), tiling (1), and brick laying (1); these are skills that are very much valued in the region.
For full details, please see our completed projects.
In our last visit (February 2025) and the previous one (November 2024), we held about 12 meetings with community members in several different communities, and in that process we identified five new projects, impacting on over 4000 people. We are fundraising for these projects in 2025. The projects are toilets, boreholes and schools. For details, including the discussions we had with community members to plan the projects, please see our list of current projects.
From 2018 to our financial year end on 31 March 2025, all money received from non-trustee donors nett of fund-raising costs was spent directly on projects. That’s because all admin expenses (including flights and accommodation for monitoring, government registration, banking, and website) were covered by donations from the trustees. Now that we are growing, this is harder to achieve. But we guarantee that if our admin expenses in 2025/26 exceed £5K or 7.5% of donations, then the trustees will pay the amount over that threshold.