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Wish List -Specific Things for which Moringa is in great need.

We are on the home stretch of making our dream of the Moringa Community Center in Central Region Ghana fully self sustainable by 2013.   We can only do this with your help.
The picture on the left is a live link to our Wish List published earlier this fall for items we remain so hopeful to fund. For those of you that have blessed us with your time to review the latest web site updates I have a few things that need to be explanation at this juncture before you hopefully have a look at our "Wish List" on the left so please read on. .

Land Purchase moved ahead on despite lack of funding.
In September of this year we had a situation of buy it now or lose it for   six acres of additional fertile land to expand our vegetable garden. Since the success of our canning program is directly linked to the crops we can cultivate, fertile farmland is essential. So we said yes to the purchase.
(See the #1 position on the Wish List linked at left.) We had just enough money in our treasury to cover this purchase and moved ahead on it with faith that somehow funding would appear over time. We are very pleased to have since been awarded a$3,400 Grant from the Koenig Family through their partnership with the Philadelphia Foundation.   These much needed funds have since offset the cost of this investment and was an enormous boost to our efforts. Since we had to deplete our funds to purchase the land, we are still recovering the money we need for basic monthly funding of all the Moringa programs. Please consider helping us.

Items we've moved ahead with from funds out of our own founder's pockets.
1. We needed to replace the truck. Our 1999 Kia 4 cylinder Diesel truck that we have literally nearly worn out (despite constant and loving maintenance by Abu), the truck situation approached critical mass in March of this year.   Having insufficient funding to replace our truck, founders Jeffry & Linda Lohr decided to personally fund over $7,000 in direct financial support this year towards the purchase for a 2003 Ford Escape SUV to keep our project on the road. This donation was not a loan, it was a gift of the Lohr's to offset this expense. Our Kia truck is still on the road but it is only used for what only a truck can do so we are preserving it as best we can.

Broad Band Internet for Moringa ---- Needed $4500 for Satellite and Hardware Infrastructure. To the unenlightened, this may seem a frivolous investment. However, as we are moving ever forward in our quest to make the Moringa Community Project fully self sustaining by 2013, we strongly feel that establishing the first public Internet Cafe within over 100 square miles of our center in Breman Asikuma is a project that will have significant return on investment.   Currently there is no place within any reasonable distance of the villages we serve for anyone to connect to the Internet. We currently spend $100 month in Internet fees just to enable basic correspondence between the founders Abubakar Abdulai in Ghana and our USA Board of Directors. This project will not only bring education to the community, it will create an ongoing income for Moringa and keep us ever connected to the outside world.   Please help us fund this Broad Band Project.


Currently there is only one place within walking distance of our compound where a wireless cell phone chip can get an internet connection. This is at the top of the hill about 1/2 mile above our compound.	Our current method of communication is a week extremely slow wireless dialup chip that is constantly crashing and can take as long as 15 minutes to transfer even a 2mb file. The system is single user and cannot be networked.

Thanks for your indulgence.
Please don't forget our main Wish List linked below. It is in easily printable PDF format.