The details March 07

Here is the accounting of your donations and where your money went.

Ghana March, 2007 Summary
Cash Contributions: $1028.00
Cash Expenditures: $ 960.35

Together with the December 2006 project, over $3,000 has been collected and distributed in Ghana.

Unfortunately, carrying 330 lbs of checked luggage involved a hefty fee. It was was worth the cost to bring clothing for the orphanage and soccer gear for the schools .

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1000 condoms
1000 personal lubricant packages
3000 antibiotic tablets

48 outfits for boys at an orphanage
43 outfits for girls at an orphanage
68 soccer uniforms split among 4 primary schools
28 soccer balls
12 pair soccer cleats

$400 excess baggage fees to Delta
$300 over-the-counter medicine for WAAF in Accra
$100 on-site liaisons: advance work, security, distribution, etc.
$ 50 medical supplies
$ 42 schools supplies
$ 35 djembe drum for Maine-Ghana Youth Center
$ 25 one large bag for checked luggage
$ 7 pumps for soccer balls

Total disbursements: $960.35

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Sadly, I do not have photos of distribution of clothing to orphans, or condoms to HIV prevention organizations, or medicine at clinics. In hindsight, I realize I need to be more diligent of documenting these distributions. To be honest, sometimes the camera makes people nervous and I try to be low-key when making new contacts.

Thanks again to the Montclair Soccer Club (http://www.montclairsoccer.org/), the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (www.aidsprevention.org), and PjurUSA (www.pjurusa.com) for their contributions.

I must also recognize all the people in the USA who contributed greatly in the form of cash, clothing, or other in-kind donations. Your generosity has been incredible. I wish you could be there to witness the joy you bring to people in Africa. You helped touch so many lives. I do not know how I can thank you......except to ask you to give more.

I return to Africa in December 2007. On this trip, I will be visiting Botswana and Lesotho, two countries with the lowest GDP and the highest AIDS infection rate in the world.

Your donations will never go farther or more directly than through your tax-deductible contribution to the TransCap Africa Relief project. I get 100% of your contribution to take directly to Africa.

Thanks to the TransCap Foundation for recognizing the important work we are doing in Africa. Working with trusted local liaisons, we personally place medicine in the hands of doctors, books in the hands of schoolchildren, and clothes in the hands of orphans.

TransCap Foundation
1170 Peachtree Street
12th Floor Suite P3
Atlanta, GA 30309
http://www.transcap.org/transafrica.htm

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