I am a trustee for Action Through Enterprise and for the 2nd year, I am fundraising and helping in any way I can to help us achieve our mission. 

Action Through Enterprise (ATE) is an exciting, innovative small charity carrying out excellent poverty reduction work in Lawra; an extremely isolated, rural, impoverished area of Upper West Ghana. We work to reduce poverty, empower communities, and improve lives.

Last year, I went to spend 2 weeks in Lawra meeting with the local communities, witnessing their daily struggles to survive but also seeing their determination to learn skills, to study, their hope, their smiles and vision for a better future was so inspiring.  Their determination, no matter the obstacles whilst in such remote area with so little, has been an eye opener and a humbling experience. 

Over the last ten years, Action Through Enterprise (ATE) has supported over 2500 children to access an education, over 110 entrepreneurs to set up sustainable businesses, and over 250 disabled children and their families to overcome discrimination and integrate into society.

We have huge ambitions and this is how your donation can help and believe me, every single cent goes to help the communities. 

• A £20 donation provides a rural school girl with sanitary pads every month for a year. This simple and low cost intervention gives children dignity during their period, ensures that they come to school every day, and prevents them from putting themselves in danger earning money to buy sanitary protection.
• £45 feeds child for a year, transforming a child’s life. ATE feeds over 600 students at seven schools a nutritious lunch every school day, preventing hunger, and enabling children to learn. It gives them a chance to complete school, opening up opportunities to break the cycle of poverty.
• A £60 donation can purchase a bicycle for a family with a disabled child ensuring that they are mobile to get to work, school and be included in the community.
• A £300 donation can set up a small and sustainable business in one of our rural Hubs, supporting a family, driving forward economic development, and fighting poverty.                                                   

Many thanks in advance for your support.

Nathalie