TRUE STORY IS If it is true that less is more and more means less Collectively as a community we are condemned to life-long poverty, because everything we try to do in agriculture, we have to do at a loss. Gift Amu-Logotse of Govan, Scotland UK Elmwood college of Agriculture (NCG Agric) Fife Schools of social Enterprise (Fellow 2005) Young community farmers of Wumenu Village For a very long time in my own life time not a story from the story books or oral tradition storytelling, I have personally taken part in this false cruel game of social economics developmental; strategies. False principles that dictated via mis - education or mis- information that success and profit could be managed by creating scarcity in order to generate or create demand, which will then attract higher price leading to what most participants deem as acceptable healthy, profit. If by any chance things happen to go wrong in the attempt to do what at the time was thought and accepted as good, well, then let treat it as a moral hazard. Unforeseen, over site, very unfortunate, bad luck, is just nature doing what it knows best, we can not get it right all the time, we did our best under the circumstances we found our selves We were only trying to do what we thought at the time was good and proper In Ghana I have personal experience of a very poor national and international reward and purchasing power completely out of order and very unfair for so many years in the name of inflation and deflation and monetary exchange systems around the word in favour of Bankers, Accountant and traders who did their best to follow what we know as acceptable rules of the trade. (3P’s) Also known as PPP in finance Meaning Personal Purchasing Power Credit crunch? In Ghana we have been crunching numbers we can buy very little with for years Before credit crunch local currency 10,000 000 = foreign currency 500 After credit crunch local currency 100,000 = foreign currency 500 A home for a Ghanaian farmer on the Wumenu community farm Supporting local economies Despite abundant natural resources, high rates of unemployment, soaring inflation and poor investment make Ghana heavily dependent on aid. 64 per cent of people in the poor Volta Regions live on less than $1 a day Life expectancy is a mere 54 The dumping of cheap, subsidised Western processed food onto local markets is having a disastrous effect on the livelihoods of local commodity traders and our local farmers, undercutting their produce and putting scores of them out of business. The Pan African Recycling Team HOME SECONDHAND GOOD FOR SCOCIAL ENTERPRISE & DEVELOPMENT www.friendofwumenufarm.org.uk How can we carry out training to help farmers produce more, and campaign to help improve their ability to trade successfully in local, national and regional markets? CAN YOU HELP?

Dear friends, My name is Gift Kofi Amu-Logotse an established creative and performing Artist and Tutor developing schools and communities with the arts. I took a year off last year to study General Agriculture at Elmwood College here in Scotland. Now that my course is over, I am calling on my friend and well wishers to help me in any shape or form to enable me to pass on my skills as a community farmer onto the youth of wumenu community farm. I am looking for sponsorship from individuals, company or community group willing to help my fundraising effort in aid of wumenu community farm Ho in the Volta region of Ghana The project will be promoted with the help of Friends of the Wumenu Community Farm A recognised Scottish Charity SC037724 We need your help in any shape or form We aim to gain local and international publicity for our course. And we want you to be with us as a friend

GIFT AMU LOGOTSE 40 MACDUFF GARDENS GLENROTHES, FIFE KY7 4BS Email: mramuculture@aol.com Website: www.kofiamulogotse.co.uk Dear Fellow Teachers & potential Friends, I am currently looking for 15 Schools anywhere on planet earth to help me with a community development project I am working with in Ghana. The project is called: The Wumenu community farm www.kofiamulogotse.co.uk The project is located at Ho in the Volta region of Ghana. I am looking for Schools wishing to take part in storytelling sessions linked to the project in Ghana and Global citizenship. I am based in Scotland but can Travel around europe freely as a european citizen,I do not need a visa to work as self employed person . So feel free to include me in yourproject plans . I am happy to work with up to 40 participants at one session or a full class of less than 40 at one session and can cover a full day’s timetable from a central base in your school or community space. Each participant will have the opportunity to take part in the storytelling session. In return they will be encouraged to sponsor a tree to be planted on the Wumenu Community Farm Ho. Paticipants are also encouraged to introduce the concept to their friends and family and they are welcome to invite them to sponsor a tree too. Once the trees are in place any participant can communicate directly with the farm manager and farmers to find out how their sponsored trees are doing. Participants only need to sponsor once in their lifetime to gain association with the project in full. The project is ongoing and will be self supporting in 18 months. We aim to follow the progress of the project and to make history with our positive achievement. Contact Details: The Project Manager, Mr. Mamudu Futa Wumenu Community Farming Project Ho P. O. BOX 1143 HO Volta Region of Ghana West Africa Email wumenufarmHo@aol.com All project funds will be paid directly to the Wumenu Community Farm Ho project account at any TSB in Scotland UK Cheques shall be made payable to The Wumenu Community Farm Ho TO BOOK A WORKSHOP PLEASE CONTACT MR GIFT AMU- LOGOTSE VIA EMAIL OR BY LETTER Email:wumenufarmho@aol.com or mramuculture@aol.com 40 MACDUFF GARDENS GLENROTHES, FIFE KY7 4BS