In the UK, Ashanti Development is a 100% volunteer force. All money raised is spent directly for the benefit of Ashanti villages.
It is run by a small management team and by long-term, unpaid volunteers, including those pictured below. Many of these volunteers run their own projects under the Ashanti Development umbrella.
1. Martha Boadu
Co-founder and Director
Martha is the Leader of the Church of Grace International, with over forty congregations in the UK and Ghana. She works as a childminder for the London Borough of Camden.
2. Albert Antwi
Director
3. Martin Badu
Director
4. Penny David
Co-founder and Director
Penny was a director of Strategy for Success, a consultancy which developed corporate strategies in the supply chains of major retail and automotive clients.
5. David Williamson
Co-founder and Director
David has over 40 years experience in water supply design, operation and management. He has worked with Save the Children, Unicef, Oxfam, MSF, ODA, UNHCR and WaterAid.
6. Jonathan Reid
Director
Jonathan is a lawyer who works as a Senior Counsel for the Royal Bank of Scotland. He initially studied Mathematics at Oxford University, before qualifying in Law at the College of Law. He has worked for around 16 years in a number of legal and banking roles.
7. Vicky Coy is a hydrogeologist and works for our sponsors, Ove Arup
8. Ashkan Khalili is an eye specialist, working at Moorfields and UCLH.
9. Barrie Coates is Ashanti Development’s representative in the North of England
10. Chris Hartley-Sharpe is a London Ambulance executive who oversees much of our healthwork
11. Ab Roy heads our volunteers from SpecSavers opticians
12. Helen Booth is a consultant in respiratory disease at University College Hospital, London
13. Judy Keep organises fund-raising events for Ashanti Development
14. Jeremy Keep is a surveyor who has worked on the clinic building
15. Holly Rees teaches English, reading and writing in Ashanti schools
16. Kathy Rees is a secondary school teacher
17. Peter Rees taught Gyetiase Primary 3 in summer 2010 and went back again in 2011
18. David Rees taught science in the Gyetiase Junior High School in 2011
19. Simon Sholl is a hydrogeologist, who also finds sponsors who will provide poor families with five years free National Health Insurance
20. Jennifer Kavanagh specialises in setting up microcredit schemes
21. Sally Tomlinson Volunteered as a teacher of English and Art for 6 months this year. She taught at the Primary and JHS in Gyetiase and the Primary in Bimma
22. Isebail McKinnon runs a microcredit project now entending over six villages
23. Zoe Cunningham is a software engineer, who organises a sponsored walk for Ashanti Development every year
24. Catriona Neath is a geochemist
25. Andy Newman builds second-hand computers for us
26. Nicky Bennett is a children’s nurse, specialising in development
27. Susan Tetlow is a doctor, who for us concentrates on back care – a major problem for village women carrying loads on their heads
28. Matt Jephcote taught art and geography in Gyetiase in 2010
29. John Elphick is a water engineer, and runs a project to provide secondhand bicycles to Ashanti villages
30. Dawn Williamson is organising twinning arrangements for UK and Ashanti schools
31. Paul Bloch is working on microcredit and monitoring
Bob Freeman is our accountant
Jen Goodman is a primary school teacher
David Hollingsworth is a chartered surveyor, working on the clinic’s new roof
Bob Hudson works for Ove Arup.
Paula Jones-Syed is an optician, working for SpecSavers
James Lalor is a hydrogeologist
Ernestina Mensah helps run a stall for us twice a month
Mark Thompson works for the Red Cross and puts up mosquito nets in Ashanti
