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Dear Partner in Development,

We thank  you for  your previous  supports, we  are  very  grateful.  This time  we  need  your  support to   secure  this permanent place on Global Giving.  We  have been given  another  opportunity  to raise  funds on  Global Giving online platform. 

Here  is  the link to our  project:

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/empowering-women-through-micro-credit-and-savings

or  : http://goto.gg/9879

This project has to raise $4,000 from 50 donors by April 30, 11:59 PM EDT to earn a permanent spot on GlobalGiving

Therefore we are asking for your help again! If you like our work  and want  us to continue  with  our activities  in  poverty reduction, please make a donation (even $10 helps!). Please recommend  our  project  and organization to   5 more  friends to  also  donate  and  spread  the  word.

Together  we   make  the  world  a  better  place !

Many thanks for your support.

In solidarity,

Alexander Kedje
Project Manager
Shape Lives Foundation ( www.shapelives.org)

I posted the video of the Africa Roundtable featuring Lumana to my Screencast.com account (direct link: http://www.screencast.com/t/7cUij9Cx1) for the benefit of participants who want to refresh their memory of what was discussed at the event and for others who were not able to attend and want to see Sammie Rayner's very interesting talk about Lumana Credit's work in Ghana and get to know the other participants. I also included below the list of participants - a great group of people that I look forward to meeting again soon. I apologize for the poor quality of the recording - we will do better next time, I promise (see lessons learned at bottom). 

Registration for the next Africa Roundtable on April 6, this time featuring Kabissa, is now open! Click here to register immediately or here for more info about the roundtable before registering. Hope to see you there! 

We were a bit late to the airport to pick them though, but we made it there about 10minutes later than the scheduled time. They did waited for long because their flight arrived far earlier than scheduled time. It was joyous when we met them finally and we quickly loaded their bags into the car and drove straight to their hotel room in Tema, a city in the capital.

Seminal Pan-African workshop about policies to support renewable energies. 

Accra, June 23, 2010. “The solar radiation Africa receives could make this continent the Saudi-Arabia of the future”. With this bold statement, Hafsat Abiola, daughter of Nigeria’s late President Elect Moshood Abiola, summarized the results of “Power Kick for Africa”, a two-day strategy workshop on renewable energy policies. The gathering was organised by the World Future Council Foundation, based in Hamburg, Germany, in cooperation with the Energy Commission of Ghana. It brought together representatives from utilities, regulators, industry and civil society from ten African countries who are determined to expand their cooperation under the umbrella of the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA). Their main point of discussion was how policy-makers can support the harvesting of abundant renewable energy and thus open the door for sustainable African development.

“If we repeat the mistakes of the developed world by realising African development mainly on the burning of fossil fuels, climate change will have a disastrous effect on our countries”, said the Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency of ECOWAS, Mahama Kappiah, at a press briefing in the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra. On the other hand, decentralised energy production through solar systems and wind farms could bring power to many remote regions, thus allowing development, creating jobs and benefitting health. Kappiah: “Solar power is reliable and can be installed easily and without the need to connect to the national electricity grid.”