Students at Awutu-Winton Senior High School in Ghana

Awutu-Winton SHS · Ghana · since 2009

Education is the only
route out of poverty

EDP Trust is a small UK charity running a fee-free senior high school for more than 500 disadvantaged students 50 km west of Accra.

Sponsor a child - £25/mo Our work

500+

Pupils enrolled

16%

Currently sponsored

£150k

Annual running cost

In district performance

Sponsor a child

£25 a month.
One child, one year.

Sponsor a child for just £25 a month and make a real difference to a young life at Awutu Winton School.

Your donation will cover the cost of one pupil's education, opening the door to opportunities they might otherwise never have. Our goal is to find a sponsor for every one of the 500 children at the school, and you can be the person who changes a child's future.

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01 - Our Mission

The gift no child
should be denied.

We believe education is the only true route out of poverty and despair. Every pound raised goes directly to the school - into classrooms, teachers, meals and the futures of children who would otherwise have none.

02 - Our Approach

One school.
Done properly.

Our focus is on developing and maintaining Awutu-Winton Senior High School - a fee-free secondary school for disadvantaged students, 50 km west of Accra in Ghana. Small, local, accountable.

04 - Our History

A family charity,
a Ghanaian dream.

EDP is a small, family-run UK charity set up in 2009 by David and Inez Lunan. At the start the aim was to promote educational initiatives across the developing world - but they soon focused on doing one project properly.

The Awutu-Winton School was the inspiration of Peter Donkor, a Ghanaian maths teacher at Winton Comprehensive in Andover, UK. Awutu Bereku, a community of nearly 100,000 people with no senior secondary school nearby, was chosen as the site.

When David and Inez met Peter, his passion was unmistakable. By drawing in friends and contacts, a huge groundswell of goodwill kick-started the project - and the school has been growing ever since.

Children learning to swim at Awutu-Winton School

05 - How we partner

Teaching a generation to swim.

Since 2015, EDP Trust has worked alongside the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation to bring water-safety education to Awutu Bereku - a region of Ghana criss-crossed by lakes, rivers and coastline.

A swimming pool was built at Awutu-Winton School and opened to both our students and children from the surrounding villages. The Foundation funds qualified instructors, swim lessons and new aquatic-safety teacher training - reducing the very real risk of drowning that families here live with every day.

9,200+

Children & adults taught

10+

Years of partnership

2025

Renewed through

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05 - The EDP Team