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Using Crowdfunding to Build Community



Using Crowdfunding to Build Community and Mutual Sustainable Development in Africa!

Please join me at: http://www.gofundme.com/Ecology--Culture
Field Trip! 2013 Follow-up Ecological Agricultural and Cultural Visit to Ghana

As we look out into the world today, it becomes crystal clear that in order to survive, we must, and can become a part of more than one community. It is a global world.

We have entered the Age of Community, as we take on the many challenges of building communities, as strong as corporations.  Crowdfunding is a collective financial approach which allows individuals, groups, etc., to pool their financial resources together to support projects. Today as individuals we continue to need community and support. This need is innate. Not only do we need support, but we need to initiate and create our reality collectively, if we are to feel that we are alive, and that we exist.

Crowdfunding gained popularity around 2008 in the midst of a global financial breakdown in what seemed to be a collapse - change was brewing. Crowdfunding is not confined to traditional philanthropy or giant corporations, but a way for common people with mediocre incomes to come together using viral online platforms.

 The African Diaspora has been uprooted and disconnected for hundreds of years from the African continent. Our character and behavior has been shaped by enslavement and oppression. We are in a state of perpetual marginalization globally.
I am a Queen Mother in Ghana with the Adele peoples in the Nkwanta ‘Upper Volta’ region of Ghana. I was enstolled in 2008, to continue the work of Elder Adunni Oshupa Tabasi.  She was the founder, an initiator, and a Queen Mother in Ghana.  The Ghana Nkwanta Project’s mission is to serve as a reentry organization - to not only deal with identity issues, past historical issues, but to reconnect to the African continent via sustainable projects and development.
The Ghana Nkwanta Project was gifted with enstolled land in the Nkwanta Upper Volta region of Ghana in 2004. The land was initially enstolled to Elder Adunni Oshupa Tabasi for the African Diaspora to get a foot-hold on the continent; to reestablish, reclaim, rebuild our identity, and to connect with the local villages via projects that are mutually beneficial.  By reconnecting to Africa we are reclaiming our birthplace, our identity to recreate ourselves for future generations. We never gave up our citizenship. We were the stolen ones.
We have created and continue to create projects, programs, and spaces for interaction between the Diaspora and Africa.  We are working in various areas of sustainable development; in ecological farming/Agroecology, sustainable alternative natural building, and alternative energy projects.
A Facebook ‘like’, a comment, forward on email to your friends, or send a donation.
 It is all appreciated.

Please Join me on Gofundme at;  http://www.gofundme.com/Ecology--Culture.

If you are uncomfortable making a donation online, you can send donation to;
Linda Fletcher, P.O.Box 6283, Bronx, NY, 10451.
You can email me at belriver@yahoo.com.

Thanks so much,
Linda Fletcher

YouTube Clips below April - 2012 trip to Ghana!

Africa is my home link below interviews with repatriates

Permaculture Design Course-April - 2012

Trashy Bags - recycling project in Ghana

Permaculture Design Course (part 2)

Dancing and Drumming in Nkwanta 'Upper Volta Region'

On the Ground in Ghana




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