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David Williamson, one of our three founding trustees, is looking for a deputy who might eventually take over when he retires. This would ideally be a water/sanitation engineer with experience of rural development work, who would take responsibility for design and construction. The engineer would need to attend some five meetings a year in London and visit Ashanti Region annually. (Ashanti Development is a 100 per cent volunteer organisation, and pays no salary or expenses.) We collect second-hand spectacles to take to villages in the Ashanti Region. They are graded by James Conn, director of our local Specsavers branch, and distributed by a doctor specialising in ophthalmology. We'd be very grateful if you could send us any, including dark glasses. Go to Specsavers website. We're looking for two volunteers to teach English, reading and writing in the primary school at Gyetiase for a few months at a time - in fact probably for as long as they choose. We'll help them fundraise for their fares and living expenses. We sell woodcarvings from the wood carving school we set up in Gyetiase, and we're happy to take commissions for special orders. Please contact us if you know someone who might be interested, or alternatively anyone who might give a hand running a stall. We need to train local people as healthworkers, but few have the basic education necessary. So we hope to set up a permanent clinic, staffed by a registered nurse, to help teach some of the locals basic first aid and simple treatments. The nurse will also be able to administer anti-retroviral drugs to villagers who are HIV/Aids positive. We hope doctors from the UK will also want to visit the clinic occasionally and carry out more complex health procedures. So if you have medical equipment to spare, or if you are a doctor or nurse who would like to spend a few weeks in Ghana, we would like to talk to you. It goes without saying that we need money for this.
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