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Hi !

Your help with this appeal would be GREATLY appreciated.  Please re-post
wherever appropriate, and please help us present this appeal to companies,
organizations, groups and PERSONS who may be able to help.

DEVMEDIA, but it is for a very, very worthy cause :  GHANA !!  our
struggling brothers and sisters.

I trust that you will do the maximum that you are able to insure a
thunderous response to this appeal.

Thanks so much, in advance.

Cecil

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Please cc: your response to:

Francis Donkor
VOLU
PO Box 1540
Accra, Ghana
West Africa

Tel:   233-21-663486
FAX:   233-21-665960
Telex: 3033 VOLU

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                     URGENT APPEAL

    C O M P U T E R S/Ofc Equip. for  V O L U  OF GHANA




To: Friends & Supporters of a Strong Ghana



During the past 30 years, it has been a pleasure for our US-based
organization of American volunteers, Operation Crossroads Africa, to be
invited to join forces, in grassroots community development, with Ghanaian
volunteers of the vast volunteer corps of the National Voluntary Workcamps
Association of Ghana (VOLU), an NGO -- currently under the able direction of
Francis DONKOR.

VOLU's devotion to helping Ghanaian people meet the economic, social,
educational and health challenges which loom before them, and to carve out a
humane and just future, is unconditional.


MEETING ON-GOING PROBLEMS

Perpetually under-funded, VOLU's great accomplishments have been all thanks
to the generous, tenacious spirit of its volunteers and supporters.  Indeed,
VOLU's contributions to Ghana have been in inverse proportion to the size of
its endowment.

Having good computer equipment, E-Mail access, and up-to-date office
equipment would help to give VOLU valuable tools to carry on its work and
calling.

Now, we are making this appeal on behalf of VOLU in hopes that you will
respond to this urgent call for assistance.


SPECIAL NEEDS

VOLU needs computers (new or used), printers, modems, and up-to-date office
equipment, in good condition, that could be donated and transported to
VOLU's office in Accra.

Also, VOLU needs a donation of E-mail services and Internet connectivity.

We hope that you will answer this call and assist in this fine effort.

Your assistance with this appeal -- in any way you can -- would be a kind
and fitting gesture on your part to Ghana and to Ghanaian people.

The great humanitarian work of VOLU speaks for itself.  VOLU has a
decades-long track record of making improvements in the quality of life at
the grassroots, rural level in Ghana.  VOLU's projects span the gamut, from
building schools and medical dispensaries, providing needed professional
skills and teachers, to promoting public health and community development at
the village level.

Helping VOLU to find computer equipment and/or gain E-Mail/Internet access,
would be a contribution of inestimable value.


URGENT APPEAL

Thus, we are making this urgent appeal with Ghana's present and future in
mind.  We hope that your caring and generosity will be BOLD.  We hope that
you will act with the decisiveness and humanity that Ghana deserves, and in
the best expression of the human spirit.

We hope that you will regard this appeal with the urgency that it deserves,
and will respond today, rather than wait until tomorrow.

We hope that you will communicate at once both with us and directly with Mr.
Donkor (VOLU's phone and FAX are given here), regarding your willingness and
ability to help meet this need.

VOLU is one of the best examples of the indomitable spirit of all Ghanaians.

Your personal assistance would be a great assist to all Ghanaians and to all
of Ghana.

You have our sincerest thanks in advance.

Sincerely,



Cecil R. Washington, Jr.
University of California

(My E-Mail : crw@loop.com)

Former Director
Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc.

3697-1/2 Platt Ave.
Lynwood, CA 90262-3641

Tel/FAX: 310-632-1582
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How to contact Crossroads :

Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc.
Work/Travel/Study Volunteers
   for a Better World

475 Riverside Dr.
New York, NY 10115-0050

Director, LaVerne Brown
212-870-2106
212-870-2061
212-870-2055 (FAX)
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NOTE:

The address of Francis DONKOR
Director, Voluntary Workcamps Association of Ghana (VOLU)

Francis Donkor
VOLU
PO Box 1540
Accra, Ghana
West Africa

Tel:   233-21-663486
FAX:   233-21-665960
Telex: 3033 VOLU