Altogether, we have now passed almost £10,000 to Ghana to fund a wide range of projects. Our friend Ruby has a number of activities underway. She has helped individual girls with school fees and equipment to get them through school. We are delighted to see Ruby working with the local communities to help them make applications for funding and then to manage the funding so that there is accountability. In the long term, we hope that the skills demonstrated and practised will be of use within the community and will help them to access further funding. There is no doubt that having the skills to write proposals, and report on the impact of funding, are fundamental skills required by those making applications for funding. At Nakore Chansa Junior Secondary School, an iron gate has been erected with the funds provided. This will provide security, when they obtain a computer.
At Tampieni Primary School, the community committee has arranged for the school to put wiring throughout the nine classrooms and into two rooms set aside for teachers.
The community will soon be provided with a generator, and once it is all set up we will no doubt be able to show some pictures of the end result. In the meantime we do have a picture of the village leaders discussing the way forward with the donated money.
The District Coalition of PTAs and school management committees is overseeing the spending of all the money. The chair of the Charingu School Management Committee has liaised with the Chair of the Coalition, and work is now in progress to build desks for classrooms, as shown in the picture below. 
Ruby has met with the leaders of the Nakore and Bihee women’s groups, in order to plan a way forward to use their funding to develop small scale industries and farming projects. Raising awareness about the importance of girls' education forms part of all developments . The Nakore women's group is pictured below:
We will receive reports on progress from Ruby in the near future. 
