Ashanti News 14
December 2010
Ashanti Development
21 Downing Court
Grenville Street
London WC1N 1LX
+44 (0) 207 837 3172
07713 743 398
info@ashanti-development.
org
www.
ashanti-development.
org
Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP
Registered charity no 1112415
1/4Feature 1
The View from the High Street
Abhijit Roy and six colleagues from...
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Ashanti News 14 December 2010 Ashanti Development 21 Downing Court Grenville Street London WC1N 1LX +44 (0) 207 837 3172 07713 743 398 info@ashanti-development. org www. ashanti-development. org Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP Registered charity no 1112415 1/4Feature 1 The View from the High Street Abhijit Roy and six colleagues from SpecSavers took 4,600 pairs of second-hand spectacles to Gyetiase last August. While they were working there, fifty cataract operations were carried out, also funded by SpecSavers. The stuttering recovery and lengthening shadow of government spending cuts make the high street a joyless place for many businesses right now. Yet at times like this we should count our blessings. Many can only dream of the things that we take for granted – like basic eye care. Charity spectacle recycling schemes are not new and many optical professionals have volunteered their help in developing countries. Running a high street retail business is busy enough without see
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Patron: The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP
Registered charity no 1112415
21 Downing Court, Grenville Street, London WC1N 1LX
T: 44 (0)207 837 3172 M: 07713 743398
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org
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org
Ashanti News 8
May 2009
In January and February Isebail Mackinnon and Jennifer Kavanagh spent a...
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Patron: The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP Registered charity no 1112415 21 Downing Court, Grenville Street, London WC1N 1LX T: 44 (0)207 837 3172 M: 07713 743398 E: penny. david@ashanti-development. org W: www. ashanti-development. org Ashanti News 8 May 2009 In January and February Isebail Mackinnon and Jennifer Kavanagh spent a month and seven weeks respectively in the village of Gyetiase, in the Ashanti region of Ghana, setting up a microcredit programme. When we arrived in Ashanti, we were told that microcredit had been tried, and it hadn’t worked. In South Africa, even the regulating body said that they were astonished at our programme – they had never heard of anything like it. Which shows how little people understand the term, and how much it has been distorted: from loans given on an ad hoc basis with little expectation of repayment, to highly structured loans of thousands of pounds for small businesses. Concentrating on complete sustainability has pushed
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Ashanti News 15
May 2011
A Dream of Africa Gala Night
Sunday 11 September 2011
7.
30pm
The Britten Theatre,
Royal College of Music,
Prince Consort Rd,
London SW7 2BS
Tickets £30
from RCM Box Office
0207 591 4314
www.
boxoffice@rcm.
ac.
uk
Ashanti Development
21 Downing Court
Grenville Street
London WC1N 1LX
+44 (0) 207 837 3172
+44...
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Ashanti News 15 May 2011 A Dream of Africa Gala Night Sunday 11 September 2011 7. 30pm The Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2BS Tickets £30 from RCM Box Office 0207 591 4314 www. boxoffice@rcm. ac. uk Ashanti Development 21 Downing Court Grenville Street London WC1N 1LX +44 (0) 207 837 3172 +44 (0) 7713 743 398 info@ashanti-development. org www. ashanti-development. org Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP Registered charity no 1112415 1/9Feature 1: Dancing for Africa A Dream of Africa Gala Night Dancers from the Royal Ballet, joined for the first time in this series by dancers from the English National Ballet, will perform the fourth fund-raising Ashanti Gala in London on Sunday 11 September. ENB Principal Dancer Elena Glurdjidze has agreed to take part, and Royal Ballet Principals Steve McRai and Sergei Polunin, who has become a huge box office draw since he last took part in an Ashanti Gala, have said they will dance for us if they possibly can.
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Ashanti News 9
September 2009
Saturday 27 September 2009
A Dream of Africa Gala Night
Celebrating the lives
of Martin Luther King
and Barack Obama
and raising funds for
Ashanti Development.
Dancers from The Royal
Ballet including Mara
Galeazzi, Sergei Polunin,
Lara Turk, Ryoichi Hirano,
Gary Avis, Emma Maguire.
In a programme of new...
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Ashanti News 9 September 2009 Saturday 27 September 2009 A Dream of Africa Gala Night Celebrating the lives of Martin Luther King and Barack Obama and raising funds for Ashanti Development. Dancers from The Royal Ballet including Mara Galeazzi, Sergei Polunin, Lara Turk, Ryoichi Hirano, Gary Avis, Emma Maguire. In a programme of new choreography, dream dances and instrumental music, played by Robert Gibbs, Adrian Bradbury, Oliver Davies and Henry Roche. Ashanti Development 21 Downing Court Grenville Street London WC1N 1LX +44 (0) 207 837 3172 07713 743 398 info@ashanti-development. org www. ashanti-development. org Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP Registered charity no 1112415 Page 1/5 Learning curve for the teacher still at school First published in the Cambridge Evening News Holly takes a class While most 16-year-olds are anxiously counting down the days to receiving their GCSE results, teenager Holly Rees has been back in the classroom. Unlike the modern surroundings where she
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Ashanti Development
21 Downing Court
Grenville Street
London WC1N 1LX
+44 (0) 207 837 3172
07713 743 398
info@ashanti-development.
org
www.
ashanti-development.
org
Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP
Registered charity no 1112415
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Dancers from The Royal Ballet & English National Ballet
including Elena Glurdjidze with new ballets by...
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Ashanti Development 21 Downing Court Grenville Street London WC1N 1LX +44 (0) 207 837 3172 07713 743 398 info@ashanti-development. org www. ashanti-development. org Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP Registered charity no 1112415 1/9 Dancers from The Royal Ballet & English National Ballet including Elena Glurdjidze with new ballets by Wayne Eagling, Erico Montes and Daniel Paul Jones & other old & newer choreography & instrumental music played by Robert Gibbs, Oliver Davies and Henry Roche Bringing clean water to African villages For more information about Ashanti Development please visit www. ashanti-development. org Sunday 11 September 2011 at 7. 30pm The Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS Tickets £30 from RCM Box Office T +44 (0)20 7591 4314 www. rcm. ac. uk boxoffice A Dream of Africa Gala 2011 An evening of Ballet & Music to raise funds for Ghana based charity Ashanti Development / Ashanti News 16 August 2011 Four new ballets specially crea
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Ashanti News 10
November 2009
Some Ashanti Development volunteers run their
own projects to provide, for example, mosquito
nets to babies or hardship money to villagers with
special problems, or to provide free school meals
to children under five years old.
Simon Sholl, who spent six months in Ashanti
earlier this year, describes the...
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Ashanti News 10 November 2009 Some Ashanti Development volunteers run their own projects to provide, for example, mosquito nets to babies or hardship money to villagers with special problems, or to provide free school meals to children under five years old. Simon Sholl, who spent six months in Ashanti earlier this year, describes the project he runs which is looking for sponsors to provide five years National Health Insurance cover for needy families. In 2003 the Ghanaian Government began a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make healthcare available to more people at a more affordable rate. Due to the large amount of casual labour and trade (and hence lack of tax payers) in Ghana, if a person wishes to be eligible for healthcare they must pay an annual subscription to be registered. This subscription fee goes towards paying for the healthcare and entitles them to numerous services without further charge: * Visits to doctors or healthcare workers * Blood and urine sample an
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Ashanti News 11
May 2010
David Williamson, a founder trustee of Ashanti Development and professional water
engineer with long experience as a WaterAid volunteer, describes progress in providing
Ashanti villages with water and sanitation.
The underground strata around Gyetiase is mainly metamorphosed sedimentary and
igneous rock.
It...
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Ashanti News 11 May 2010 David Williamson, a founder trustee of Ashanti Development and professional water engineer with long experience as a WaterAid volunteer, describes progress in providing Ashanti villages with water and sanitation. The underground strata around Gyetiase is mainly metamorphosed sedimentary and igneous rock. It doesn’t hold water, so most villages rely on streams. If boreholes in this part of Ghana are to give a reliable yield they must intercept cracks in the solid rock mass and, even with the help of experienced hydrogeologists, only about one in three boreholes is successful. Simon Sholl (who also runs our National Health Insurance Scheme) has just come back from Ghana, where he helped site new boreholes including one at Mprim village, where we had almost given up hope. According to Simon, the borehole is providing ‘shiploads’ of water. He also got the water pumps working again in the villages we call PSK – Patase, Sesease and Master’s home village, Kokobe
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Ashanti News 12
July 2010
Our Volunteering Experience in Gyetiase
by volunteer child nurse, Nicky Bennett
My friend, Anna, and I have just returned from volunteering in
Gyetiase and had such a fantastic time no words can describe! I had
previously been the year before and on arrival all the children
remembered us and were instantly...
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Ashanti News 12 July 2010 Our Volunteering Experience in Gyetiase by volunteer child nurse, Nicky Bennett My friend, Anna, and I have just returned from volunteering in Gyetiase and had such a fantastic time no words can describe! I had previously been the year before and on arrival all the children remembered us and were instantly drawn to knowing all about Anna. After meeting the chiefs of the village and discussing our work plans we were able to begin our journey. Each day before school, on breaks and after school the children were looking for us to play and give them the attention many of them do not usually receive. Seeing their faces and watching them enjoy activities we organised for them made the journey even more special. A general day for us included running a clinic for children who usually did not have national health insurance and needed some kind of medical treatment or advice. We were able to help many children at the clinic. However one child troubled us, and we e
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Ashanti News 13
September 2010
A Dream of Africa Gala Night
Sunday 19 September 2010
7.
30pm
The Britten Theatre,
Royal College of Music,
Prince Consort Rd,
London SW7 2BS
Tickets £28
from RCM Box Office
020 7591 4314
www.
boxoffice@rcm.
ac.
uk
Ashanti Development
21 Downing Court
Grenville Street
London WC1N 1LX
+44 (0) 207 837 3172...
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Ashanti News 13 September 2010 A Dream of Africa Gala Night Sunday 19 September 2010 7. 30pm The Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2BS Tickets £28 from RCM Box Office 020 7591 4314 www. boxoffice@rcm. ac. uk Ashanti Development 21 Downing Court Grenville Street London WC1N 1LX +44 (0) 207 837 3172 07713 743 398 info@ashanti-development. org www. ashanti-development. org Patron The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP Registered charity no 1112415 1/7Feature 1: Dancing for Africa A Dream of Africa Gala Night Dancers from The Royal Ballet are lending their support to registered charity, Ashanti Development, by taking part in the third Gala performance, A Dream of Africa, to raise funds for its work. The highlight of the evening will be Anton Dolin’s celebrated 1941 recreation of the famous 1845 divertissement Pas de Quatre, specially revived for this Gala by Jelko Yuresha, with the help of Ursula Hageli, Ballet Mistress of The Royal Ballet. The original, created
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