**Annual Report 2022**
Registered charity number: 1149988
## ~~**Contents**~~
**About Action Through Enterprise......................p3 Message from the Chair of Trustees ..................p4 Ten years of changing lives .................................p5 Tanchara ....................................................................p6 Our charity in 2022 .................................................p8 Inclusion Centre ......................................................p10 EducATE ....................................................................p12 Getting girls to school ...........................................p14 BizATE ........................................................................p16 Dry Season Farming ..............................................p18 VocATE apprenticeships .......................................p20 SNAP ...........................................................................p22 Thank you .................................................................p24 Financial summary ................................................p25 Future plans .............................................................p26**
Cover image: Ntyerne, a weaver first supported in 2012 Left: Community meeting in Bagri Hub
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## **About Action Through Enterprise**
## ~~**Celebrating the first ten years, planning for the next**~~
**2022 has been exciting, pivotal and impactful for Action Through Enterprise, in four key and interconnected ways:**
1 We’ve celebrated ten amazing years as a dynamic small charity operating in Lawra, Upper West Ghana, where we work with rural communities to tackle poverty and create opportunities. The anniversary has enabled us to highlight – through inspiring, transformational stories – the incredible impact of our work, allowing us to reach beyond our current supporter base to build new connections.
3 We’ve ramped up work with young women, running a pilot project to get girls into Senior High School. Supporting women is the most effective way to raise the opportunities of a whole community, and we’re delighted to see so many incredible role models emerging.
4 We’ve consolidated our strong base in Lawra – including the opening of an IT Suite in our bespoke Inclusion Centre – and have begun planning an important expansion to a new district, Nandom, where we aim to launch in 2024.
2 We’ve used our tested, holistic, community-focused and replicable Hub Model to expand our vital work in education, enterprise and inclusion. Tanchara Hub was launched successfully in 2022, brilliantly managed by Charity Kyekpo, our first female Hub Manager.
This year has been about growth – in our impact and reach, in the confidence within our impressive team and in the scale of our ambition.
## **How we work**
Our Hub Model enables our skilled team to work with rural communities in a highly effective way.
Led by a dedicated local manager, Hubs bring together three main areas of activity: education, enterprise and inclusion. This means we reach people in many different ways - and the impact is strengthened across the whole community.
Above: Students from Tanchara Koro JHS
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Message from the Chair of Trustees
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**I am constantly amazed at the daily impact that Action Through Enterprise achieves. As a member of the staff WhatsApp group, I see what team members do each day, expressed in words and photos. These reports are generally rather matter of fact – because to our staff they are the reality of the communities where they work. However, to someone like me, they are awe-inspiring and special.**
Every day our team make significant positive changes to people’s lives. Light is brought into children’s lives, children living with challenges and in circumstances where little light seems to exist. Education becomes attractive and feasible, where otherwise it would likely fall by the wayside. Businesses are kickstarted, mentored, trained and encouraged, bringing real money into communities that are in desperate need of it. I could go on to give you a long list of similar daily impacts – and I hope this Annual Report allows you to engage with our life-changing work, as I do each day on WhatsApp.
2022 was undoubtedly our best year so far. All key building blocks were (and still are) in place. The most important of these building blocks are our methods and our people. Our methods are based on our Hub Model, which is now embedded and very successful. Our people are a group of fifty made up of staff, trustees and other key volunteers. If these fifty succeed, then donors support us and beneficiaries receive the helping hand they desperately need. In 2022, the fifty succeeded!
This is my last “Message from the Chair”. As of May 2023, I will stand down as Chair to be succeeded by
the very talented Nathalie Burdet. I am lucky enough to still be very involved in various roles, including working with our team on business development and training.
What started 11 years ago as an interesting project for me - where I thought I could do a bit of good and experience things that I had not previously – has become the richest learning experience of my life. I will forever be grateful.
I know that our charity will continue to thrive and grow with Nathalie as Chair, the plans for the next few years are very exciting. There will of course be challenges, there always are.
So, thank you for supporting Action Through Enterprise - it’s been a great journey and we’ve only just begun.
## **Charles Gardner**
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## ~~**Ten years of changing lives**~~
2,456
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children across nine schools provided with free school meals and essential materials to support their education since 2013.
small businesses supported to kickstart sustainable enterprises since 2012, such as weavers, carpenters and dry season farmers.
Sandra, a small business owner from Tanchara supported in 2022
1.4 million
nutritious school meals enjoyed by children in Lawra since the launch of Action Through Enterprise.
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dry season farmers on 22 farms supported to grow crops when food is most scarce, breaking the cycle of hunger.
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marginalised disabled children and their families reached, creating opportunities across five support groups.
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female apprentices provided access to apprenticeships to gain lifelong vocational skills.
## **Sustainable Development Goals addressed by our work**
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere, adopted by all UN member states in 2015.
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## ~~**Tanchara: Hub of hope**~~
**January 2022, and the opening of Tanchara Hub was full of exciting firsts: the first new Hub since Covid; the first Hub to have a female manager; the first in which the (year-long) engagement process was run entirely by our Lawra team, with ‘remote’ support from the UK.**
**Tanchara is proof that our Hub Model is effective and repeatable. We are so connected with the community, and our manager Charity is soaring in her work and carrying the Hub with her. The impact is huge and will only grow.**
Gabriel Maanibe, Country Director
It was probably our best launch ever.
It began with the opening of school kitchens at Kunyukuo and Koro Junior High Schools, where attendance has now grown from 50% to over 80%. Fewer children are travelling south to find money and food – a big challenge in Tanchara – and are now studying on full stomachs, using educational materials provided by Action Through Enterprise.
**2022 was the year that kept the hopes and dreams of the poor and young people of Kunyukuo alive, by the helping hand of Action Through Enterprise. The issue of children dodging home to eat is a thing of the past. Teachers were blessed with some text books which is facilitating their teaching. And monthly provision of sanitary pads means female students feel well protected and do not absent themselves from school. We say ‘Barika yaga zaa’ (Thank you very much).**
George Nayasama, Head Teacher, Kunyukuo JHS
Lawrencia and her mother Kuupar from Tanchara
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In the spring, we launched Tanchara SNAP with around 30 families with disabled children. Now, 85 families attend monthly meetings full of play, singing, education for the children and talks on hygiene and health for the parents. Provision of medication, sanitary towels and disability equipment also help the numbers grow, with children who were previously hidden away being brought into the light.
**SNAP has greatly reduced my anxiety towards my daughter’s health condition. Now we receive medication to keep Zunuo’s epilepsy under control, she has stopped using her wheelchair, she is strong and is able to walk well. People don’t fear her in the community anymore – we are respected.**
Janet, mother of SNAP member Zunuo from Tanchara
**At first it wasn’t easy, a lady addressing the chiefs and community leaders. I was seeing myself as too small to play such a role. But with time and encouragement, especially from my team, I won their trust. I can truthfully say my confidence grows almost every day. My main hope for Tanchara is that we get the funds to support more girls.**
Charity Kyekpo, Tanchara Hub Manager
Tanchara Hub is one of our most vibrant Hubs, a great illustration of how careful engagement pays off. The key stakeholders are thoughtful, proactive and full of suggestions. And people have responded well to our first ever female Hub Manager, Charity Kyekpo, who has fast become a role model within the community, especially for the girls.
November was a big moment in Tanchara for eight small businesses – weavers, sewers and a hairdresser – who were awarded grants, along with two dry season farmers. They were able to invest in stock, equipment and training, like Rasheed, who recruited apprentices and bought new sewing machines to grow his tailoring business.
**Before, I was working hand to mouth, I almost closed my shop. I only had one machine so everything would take a long time. Now, even customers from Wa come to me as they know they can get their products quickly. Business is thriving!**
Abdul Rasheed, tailor
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## ~~**Our charity in 2022: Happy 10**~~ **[th]** ~~**anniversary to Action Through Enterprise**~~
## **1. Fantastic Tanchara**
Our newest Hub opened in January, led by our first ever female manager, Charity Kyekpo. Now, pupils are learning on full stomachs, there are eight new businesses and a vibrant SNAP disability group.
## **2. Computer says YES!**
Tackling digital as well as food poverty, we’ve opened an IT Suite, courtesy of SEGA, who donated 28 computers. Thanks to Charlie Haw, who travelled to Lawra to set it up. Free to all, people who’ve never seen a computer before are getting connected.
## **4. Play Time**
Beautiful scenes, as long-standing volunteer Dee Anderson trained the SNAP team in using play activities with disabled children. Dee spent four weeks in Lawra and made such a difference.
## **3. A Star is Born!**
Lucy was the hit of our Anniversary film, speaking of her plans to become a midwife, to give something back to her village – and to be a female role model. She already is. Thanks to Asif Noorani for producing such an incredible film.
## **5. Meet the Experts**
We’re pushing the professional development of our staff, including newcomer, Helen Gala. Helen helps run our SNAP disability network, in the Inclusion Centre and across five locations.
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## **6. Looking Good**
We’re delighted to have had a makeover from the wonderful people at Thinkfarm, who’ve given us the forward-looking branding that goes with our exciting plans for the future.
## **9. Life-changing transformation**
When we began SNAP ten years ago, most disabled children in Lawra were hidden away, with few chances in life. Today, Patience is one of five disabled young people embarking on an apprenticeship in dressmaking, hairdressing or weaving through our VocATE scheme.
## **10. Coming soon…**
Our newest Hub, Kalsagri, opens in January 2023, when two schools begin providing school lunch. From community elders to pupils, we’ve spent 2022 building relationships with a new community.
## **11. Money, Money, Money**
We can’t do anything without it – or without you, our marvellous supporters. New trustee Nathalie Burdet even stopped off for the Accra Half Marathon on her way up to Lawra!
## **12. CelebrATE!!**
From a swinging party in Hungerford to a well-connected event at the Royal OverSeas League (generously hosted by Sir John Sawers), to Sir John talking about us on Sky News with Kay Burley, we’ve marked our 10th Anniversary in style. Please keep supporting us and give the people of the Upper West even more to celebrate in 2023 and beyond.
## **7. Weave it to us!**
Peter, who makes gorgeous traditional smocks, is one of 13 new small business owners we’re supporting across Lawra.
## **8. Field of Dreams**
Our support of Dry Season Farmers goes beyond providing vital equipment to farm arid soil. We held a lively training session, teaching them how to grow profits as well as food.
Right: Dr Nick Westcott, ATE CEO Sarah Gardner, and Sir John Sawers
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## ~~**Inclusion Centre: Fighting digital poverty**~~
**Our Inclusion Centre in Lawra town has continued to be the beating heart of our operation. The purpose-built space, now in its third year, is a lively hub of activity where small business owners receive training, staff have a safe and clean place to work and families with disabled children can gather for SNAP meetings, which go from strength to strength. Our big news in 2022 - the opening of an IT Suite.**
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**We started seeing parents coming by to give thank you messages. School children coming for IT lessons. SNAP mothers, for many of them first time seeing a computer, touching a mouse and seeing displays on the computers, marvelling.** Gabriel Maanibe, Country Director
This well-cared for and well-loved Centre benefits the whole community – and in 2022 we made some significant additions to the facilities.
Local artists created incredible wall decorations, turning a practical space into a beautiful one. We set up a library area, with books the whole community can use. And we opened a ground-breaking IT Suite, giving the people of Lawra their first access to this technology.
The Suite of 28 fully-networked computers is free of charge to the community, with a particular focus on rural school children. Since opening in September, almost 100 pupils from Girls Model JHS, Karbo JHS and Bagri JHS have already used it to prepare for their 2022 BECE exams. We now have a generation of young people building the skills they’ll need to gain decent employment or to set up businesses. And their families have an IT ambassador within their homes, connecting them with the world and enabling them to expand their own skills and businesses.
Our own team has also benefitted, with cost-effective IT training in situ. This has especially empowered our female staff, who had not had access to this technology before.
Huge thanks to SEGA for their generous donation of computers and UK volunteer Charlie Haw, who installed them.
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Students from Biro JHS use the computers on the IT suite opening day
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## ~~**Education: The key to unlocking opportunity**~~
**Our EducATE programme continues to be the lynchpin of our work, the first point of contact we make with new communities and the single activity that brings the widest benefit.**
**Action Through Enterprise’s support has helped reduce burden on our parents who could not afford so many things for us. With this support, we get more time to learn because we don’t need to labour in order to get money to buy books.**
This year, we have delivered over 80,000 school meals – in kitchens built by the community, with food bought locally and prepared by a team of women employed as cooks. This simple intervention has a profound impact: children are no longer hungry and have a pathway to fulfil their dreams of education and progress in life; suppliers have a revenue stream; income is brought into the community through salaries.
We also provided 11,000 educational resources such as books and stationery, enabling pupils to study more effectively. And we increased our specialised support to girls, supplying 3641 packs of sanitary items, menstrual hygiene education and group support sessions with Hub Manager Charity Kyekpo.
Amedius, student at Koro JHS
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As well as launching the programme in two new schools in our Tanchara Hub – heralding the start of a new and productive relationship with the whole community – we have held numerous meetings with community leaders, teaching staff and PTAs in Kalsagri, where we plan to launch in January 2023. The local community has constructed kitchens at two schools, we’ve recruited four cooks and excitement is building.
**You can visibly see the joy and excitement in the faces of the students when they flip over their textbooks knowing that they have all the time to comfortably read without being cramped or rushed.**
Edith Karbo, Teacher, Karbo JHS
Above: Students from Lawra Girls Model JHS Left: Hub Manager Sylvester & Moses, Bagri JHS
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**Every girl we support though Junior High into Senior High is part of the vital change our community – and our country – needs. This virtuous circle of resources and hope will reap benefits in the short, medium and long term.**
## ~~**Getting girls to school**~~
## **A project of hope for the whole community**
Following a successful pilot in 2021, we have rolled out our transformative Girls To School Project, supporting and funding another 15 girls to attend Senior High School (SHS).
Seven girls from Karbo JHS and eight from Biro JHS have been able to buy everything they need for their first year at SHS, including a mattress and bedding, transport, food, chop box, uniform, toiletries and sanitary products and, of course, educational materials and equipment.
This intervention has had a profound impact - on these girls’ life chances and on expectations around what girls can achieve. Teachers report that younger pupils, especially girls, work harder because they know they could also attend SHS. Special thanks to Ghana International Foundation, the charitable foundation of Ghana International Bank plc, for supporting the Karbo girls.
**The scholarship programme is really one that can have good future impact for these girls. When they come home from break, we see how good and decent they appear. They’re in school and they have hopes of a better life. They’ll have choices, professions and good families.**
Edith Karbo, Teacher, Karbo JHS
Gabriel Maanibe, Action Through Enterprise Country Director
**We conducted a questionnaire among 22 Action Through Enterprise-supported SHS girls:**
All thought they were None of their parents likely to get better had attended any level jobs and earn more. of school at all – and, unlike their non-SHS All said they had more counterparts – none of confidence. the girls had married, become pregnant or become economic All thought they were migrants. less likely to marry in their teens.
95% said that in 3 years they hoped/ expected to be doing more study.
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**This programme is an important element in our quest to eradicate poverty, stop early marriage and advocate for the girl child education. None of the girls we supported have gone south to labour for money, because we are not just giving them what they want for school but also sensitizing them and their parents on the dangers of this rural-urban migration at their tender age. They understand why we are helping them.**
Rexford Benon, Girls to School Project Manager
**I am very happy for what you have done for me. I always feel comfortable on campus with the provisions which also contribute to my well-being in school.**
**With the help of Action Through Enterprise, I can be a role model, because we are the first girls that have access to Senior High School. I want to be a midwife in the future so that I will help my village people. That is my dream.**
This year we have been proud to highlight the story of Lucy, an impressive student from Biro, featuring her as the star of our special 10th Anniversary Film.
Lucy, St. Francis Girls Senior High School, Jirapa
Rosemary is another brilliant example of how sending one girl to SHS can impact a whole community. In her first year studying General Arts, Rosemary is getting great grades at SHS and becoming a role model for other people with a disability.
**You have given us a lot of things and through this we have known the importance of education. You have not given them in vain, we will use them and make sure that we bring success to you.**
Rosemary, Piina Senior High School
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## ~~**Enterprise: Best Practice… Great Results**~~
**It’s been a productive year for our business programme, BizATE. We have launched one of our biggest ever batches of new businesses and apprentices, as well as providing vital on-going training and mentorship for the entrepreneurs, dry season farmers and apprentices we’ve supported since 2019.**
Businesses make 5x more profit after Action Through Enterprise support.
74% of business
With a strong focus on training, the impact of BizATE improves every year. Representing global best practice, the programme includes nine modules, including ones on maximising profit, developing a marketing plan and the customer journey. We constantly review and upgrade the material and training approach and in 2022 oversaw a big improvement in its delivery, with the team spending time preparing and rehearsing each module.
owners say commercial education training is most valuable aspect of BizATE.
100% of entrepreneurs can now take care of their family’s needs.
100% would
recommend to friends and family.
- 100% have better living conditions.
The result speak for themselves. In October, an evaluation on behalf of the Commercial Education Trust revealed the following:
- 26% have built a new home.
**With the learning and training, I’ve expanded my farm, increased my yield and my income…Action Through Enterprise’s support has been the turning point in my life.**
Isaac, pepper farmer, granted 2019
**In the past, some delegates saw the training as an obligation rather than a benefit. Now, they genuinely value the training and want to be trained. This is because both the delegates and the training are higher quality.**
Charles Gardner, BizATE training lead
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**I would have lost my marriage if Action Through Enterprise hadn’t helped me. I now make money that I am able to take care of the family. Being a business owner and also able to train others is a great opportunity to me.**
Patricia Fong, weaver, granted 2021
**I was jobless…. I now make a living. I have a skill, I have capital, I’m starting to expand. The biggest change in my life is the skills and knowledge I learnt so far.**
In autumn 2022, we granted 13 new small business owners - 8 from our latest Hub in Tanchara, and 5 in Bagri Hub - as well as 6 dry season farmers. They will begin their commercial education training in January 2023. We also selected 15 new apprentices to embark on a guided vocational training programme.
Janet Saakum, dressmaker, granted 2021
Thanks to BizATE and the skills and dedication of the people of Lawra, a new generation of sustainable, profitable businesses and farms are bringing income, hope and opportunity.
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~~**Dry Season Farming: Breaking the cycle of hunger**~~
**The root of many of the challenges facing the people of Lawra is lack of food, especially during the tough five-month dry season between November and April. Hunger – with many eating as few as four meals across a week - affects education, health, productivity and the sustainability of the whole community. Tackling it can have a dramatic impact.**
Alex, brother of dry season farmer Prosper, helping on the farm
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This year, we have supported six new dry season farmers, including three in our new hub Tanchara. This makes a total of 84 individual farmers and 22 farms since 2016. We’ve provided vital equipment (water pumps, pipes and fencing), along with workshops and mentoring. Already, the new water pump has made a huge difference, with farmers reporting it is making their work easier, faster and more enjoyable! Because of the time saved, many are planning on expanding the size of their farms and planting more crops, hopefully leading to more profit, come the end of the season.
**Through this grant, I have been able to expand my farm, produce more food and make a profit. I sponsored my brother’s college education and then spent the rest of my profits on my building project. Before, my family and I could barely eat a proper, balanced meal, but now we’re healthier because we eat from the rich vegetables that I farm.**
We are proud to have supported our first woman dry season farmer, Shaibu Barikisu, who is breaking barriers in her community. Partnering with her sister, Shaibu is cultivating two acres, growing maize, cabbage, cucumber, green peppers, cassava and chilli peppers. Married with five children, this extra income will help her and her husband provide for their family – and ensure they can support their children through school.
**I started this gardening to support my unemployed husband and children. Though I am aware this is typically a man’s job, I knew I could succeed given the needed support. Action Through Enterprise gave me all I needed to succeed and I want to use this opportunity to encourage other women to venture into dry season farming. My husband is so proud of me now and I hope to see many women getting same support from Action Through Enterprise.**
Shaibu Barikisu, supported in 2022
Thomas Nangtege, pepper grower
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## ~~**Apprenticeships: Supporting young women to change their lives**~~
**Skills, confidence and self-sufficiency, our VocATE apprenticeship scheme offers young women who have fallen through the net of education a chance to make their lives a success, to support their families, to give their children better opportunities and to be role models for generations to come.**
The most common word they use when asked about our apprenticeship scheme? Life-changing.
In 2022, we funded and supported 15 new apprentices in dressmaking, weaving and hairdressing, whilst continuing to monitor and oversee the 13 young women who began their training in 2021.
One generous family is the major donor for this project, providing the £700 each girl needs to buy equipment, a bike and cover fees to her trainer. The impact is profound, as apprentices graduate, start their own businesses, bring income into their family and provide opportunities for more girls to train.
Rita, a dressmaking apprentice in her second year of training
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We’re especially proud to support girls like Belinda, who has special needs and who found school a struggle because of the stigma she faced. With VocATE, she is not only gaining a skill – she is showing the community how much she can achieve.
**I am learning this trade to be part of my community, to have a say, not to be a liability to my people, but to be an asset in the community.**
**VocATE has given my daughter a lifeline and hope in the future. Through this programme, I can see that her level of patience, tolerance, and general behaviour has improved a lot. People are now beginning to respect and include her in things. I am very proud of what she’s doing now. And seeing her happy about going to learn at the shop makes me happy.**
**My hope is that she gets her own dressmaking shop when she completes her training. She will be a source of inspiration for many others.**
Belinda’s mother
**I can really find happiness in my apprenticeship and I am learning slowly but very well. There are times I forget about instructions and numbers, but my trainer has all the patience for me and Action Through Enterprise is monitoring well and that inspires me to learn. My family could have lost hope in me because of my disability, but now they are happy.**
Belinda, 22, Seamstress
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## ~~**Inclusion: Doubling our impact**~~
**This year, our SNAP disability programme grew in many ways: we launched three new SNAP groups; we improved facilities at our Lawra town Inclusion Centre; we took on more staff and increased training; we engaged with other experts; we supported SNAP members in their education, training and businesses; we provided new educational and play resources; we supported members’ health needs.**
SNAP always been full of love, kindness, practical advice and sharing – this year, we really upped the professionalism.
Led by Kaamil Issahuku, the SNAP team has gone from strength to strength, with co-ordinator Esther Bekah being joined by new co-ordinator Helen Gala. Between them, they run monthly meetings in all our Hubs and conduct a rolling programme of home visits, ensuring no one slips through the net. In addition, UK volunteer and former teacher Dee Anderson has taken a more hands-on role as SNAP Advisor, visiting for several weeks in the autumn and training the team in the different ways disabled children can learn.
**We have seen disabled children who were once written off, grow in their language, health and abilities, with some attending school or becoming apprentices with every chance of having some independence as adults. Their mothers have also found confidence in numbers and are more able to make their own living.**
Kaamil Issahaku, SNAP Lead
Sampson, a SNAP member from Bagri with his family
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**I have the passion for the work I do, I love these children who often feel they are neglected. They need love and affection and when they get it, they become happy.**
Esther Bekah, SNAP Co-ordinator
Monthly meetings in the heart of five villages has meant disabled children becoming more visible within their own communities. We’ve provided educational material for 42 children so they can access mainstream education, funded five children to attend the Special School in Wa, enabled three more disabled girls to begin vocational training as apprentices and helped eight groups of SNAP mothers set up small enterprises making shea butter. These activities are creating both opportunities for individuals and changing perception among wider society of what disabled children and their families can achieve.
Everything is underpinned by the delivery of basic and vital support and advice: health insurance, information about hygiene, sessions on how to play with a disabled children and enable them to love and to learn. An eye specialist is working with a number of blind children in Biro and we’re planning on sessions in other SNAP groups.
The Inclusion Centre has been beautifully decorated by local artists to create a child friendly space, and an updated bank of good quality resources – all relevant to life in Lawra - encourages children to have fun and develop their communication skills.
Julita and her mother Tierto at a SNAP meeting in Dowine
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## ~~**Fantastic fundraising**~~
**We can’t thank our brilliant fundraisers enough for all their hard work and support, big and small!**
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## ~~**Financial summary**~~
## **Action Through Enterprise Income & Expenditure**
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**Out of every £1 you donate:**
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## **Financial systems and processes**
Financial transparency and accountability continue to be a top priority for us. This year, we have introduced more checks and balances and strengthened our personnel by appointing a skilled finance officer and bringing Charity Kyekpo, Tanchara Hub Manager, onto the Finance Team.
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## ~~**Future plans: Lawra…and beyond**~~
2022 has been pivotal for Action Through Enterprise. With the success of the Tanchara Hub and a new hub in Kalsagri ready to launch in January 2023, we will meet our target – of ensuring everyone in the district of Lawra can access our programmes – two years ahead of schedule. We’ve been able to accelerate our expansion due to the hard work and dedication of our highly effective team and our excellent community-based Hub Model. And that’s why the story doesn’t end here…
After a decade of earning trust, gaining knowledge and proven results, we’re ready to take our tried and tested model further afield. We begin the next ten years with a bigger dream, to enable other communities to fulfil their potential, for their children to study, their businesses to grow, their disabled children to thrive.
That’s why we’ve spent 2022 developing a new mission: to replicate our effective poverty reduction model in other districts across the Upper West.
**We still work like we started – burning passion, missiondriven and closely learning. One strength of our charity is the ability to reflect on our programmes and to help one another grow. No one is left behind.**
Gabriel Maanibe, Country Director
We will use what we’ve learnt in this first decade to transform Nandom in the next – we’ll begin by engaging local stakeholders and building relationships, with a 4-year plan for six Hubs. By that point, we will have launched in another district, and then another, working across rural Ghana and (maybe) beyond, using our learnings from each new launch to improve our model.
**We are so excited about these plans and are determined to make them happen. With the right support, we have a bright future, showing the world that development can be done in a sustainable, resilient, kind way. This is our achievable dream for our next ten years.**
Our Lawra Hub will continue to be a Centre of Excellence, providing a benchmark for brilliant work that will inspire and inform our every move
We’ve got this far on a very small budget. This year we’ll spend around £200,000, providing huge impact at great value for money. Next year, we’ll need 50% more, and we hope to have doubled our income by 2025. By that point, we will have changed the lives of more than 20,000 people.
Sarah Gardner, CEO
We’ll do this hand-in-hand with communities, with our extraordinary staff and volunteers and with the support and insight of our donors, past and future.
In January 2023, we will head north to Nandom, a similar sized district 45 minutes from Lawra.
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## **Get Involved**
**We are so grateful to everyone who supports us.**
## **Website**
www.ateghana.org
**If you’re interested in finding out more about getting involved with Action Through Enterprise, please reach out to us!**
## **Email**
admin@ateghana.org
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**ATE is an exemplary community development project that mobilises resources around education, nutrition and wealth creation in a way that empowers all too often neglected and rural communities.**
**Action Through Enterprise uplifts a whole community of over 50,000 people for less than £250k a year. It’s tremendous value for money and I back it all the way.**
Sir John Sawers
**Innovative and entrepreneurial ATE promotes sustainable solutions to delivering development at the grassroots and is worthy of support and replication across Ghana and beyond.**
The Rt Hon Lord Paul Boateng
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||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
||Yearto|Yearto|Ycarto|Yrarto|Y6arto|Yearto|
||,1December202231Dccemberm2231||Dccember2022|31Decemb.t202131December202l||31December202t|
||EET|||€E€|||
|lncome|||||||
|EmerSency Appeals|0|0|0|15,959|15,969|0|
|Donations|92,015|92,015|0|95 395|95,396|0|
|Monthly standing orders|28,9)2|24,902|0|30,345|30,345|0|
|Grants|83,410|42,7@|40,7to|47,473|11,054|36,419|
|Commercial income|0|0|0|o|0|g|
|HMRCtax rcfunds|t9,467|L9,467|0|9,U2|9,842|0|
|Other income|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|lnterest recelved|202|zo2|0|1,055|1,056|0|
|Total Recolpts|22r897|183,247|N,7tO|201,081|,.il,662|35,419|
|Expenditure|||||||
|ProjectCosts|||||||
|EducATE|73,99u|44,366|2e,624|77,828|77,828|0|
|EizATE|23,086|4,930|18,156|26,547|26,547|0|
|VocATE|L4,LzI|14,L2t|o|3,814|3,814|0|
|Dry Season Farming|14,656|10,5s7|3,W|15,599|L0,647|t0s2|
|SNAP|36,350|20365|9,984|4t,ou|3L,ow|10,000|
|Total proiectcosts|L62,203|100,440|6t,763|164.972|
149.920|15,052|
|Admlnirtrativecosts|||||||
|Fundraisinglnvestment|20,t41.|20,L4L|0|26,10s|25,105|0|
|Charlty inftastuctureandmanagementcosts
Total administrativecosts|L3,729
33.861|13,720
33.861|0|10,324
36,429|10,324
36,429|0|
|Total Expendlture|1!r6,054|13430X|61,753|201,41|186,349|15,052|
|Excess/(Deficit) of income overexpenditure|27,911|48,986|(21,0s3)|(320)|(2L,6871|21,367|
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|UXdep$ltaccount|lqms|||rsnoo|||
|60Dayilodceaesunt{Cambddfee Courths tank}|25,000|||o|||
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|Total Arsets|166,X0|||t*,277|||
|TotalFundValu€|166,210|145,650|,3,560|1:18,277|97,W|,E,,6.tl.|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Date||Proiect||20?j2|||
||||Brought Fwd|Donations|(Spent)|Carrled Fwd|
|WT|CET|BTzATE|4,L94||(4,1s4l,|0|
|blf|cET|BizATE|9,@O||(e,000)|0|
|blf|Souter Charitable Trust|EduCATE|2,552||(2,s52)|o|
|blt|Dorfted Charitable Trust|EducATE|1,100||(1,100)|0|
|blt
blt|Quakers
GhanaSchoolAid|EducATE
€ducATE|4,982
1,320||(4,9821
(1,320)|0
0|
|blf
blf|OpenworkFoundation
KyeemaFoundation/Palladium|SNAP
BagriHub|9,984
7,48L||(s,e84)
i.2,9771,|0
4,564|
|07lOLl2O22|Barbara Ward Childrens Foundationgrant|EducATE||6,@0|(6,000)|0|
|2L|OU2O22|Austin Bailey Foundation-Tranche1|DSF||1,333|(1,333)|0|
|U/0312o22|BigGiveCCColesMedlockfoundation|EducATE||3,mo|(3.000)|o|
|78/03/2022|CETGrantpart2|BizATE||4,962|(4,9621|0|
|2810312022|Ghanainternational foundation|KarboJHS||8,822|(4,003)|4,829|
|2510412022|AustinBaileyGrant|DSF||1,333|(1,333)|o|
|2OlO9l2O22|AustinBaileyfoundation|DSF||1,333|(1,333)|0|
|73I LO/2022|Souter Charitable Trust|GirlsModel||3,200|(3,200)|o|
|251L012A22|QuakersgrantforGirlsmodel|GirlsModel||4,717|(5so)|4,167|
|221L2/2o22|Barbara Ward Childrens Foundationgrant|EducATE||6,000|||
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