Donations--Scales (8)

These pictures are the property of Tom Neuhaus. You may use each as displayed on this site for free; please attribute the source (Tom Neuhaus, Project Hope and Fairness). For higher resolution, you can purchase the original for $5. To do this, visit www.projecthopeandfairness.org and click the Donate button. Donate $5 per picture and then email me (tom@projecthopeandfairness.org) what pictures you want and I will send them back to you. Thank you in advance for donating cocoa farming tools to West African cocoa farmers by purchasing a picture.

Or, a yummy way to help the West African cocoa farmer is to purchase chocolate from my company, Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates. Or, visit Splash Cafe, my sister's restaurant. Splash Cafe and its sister business, Splash Cafe Artisan Bakery donate at least $2500 every summer to Project Hope and Fairness and makes my trips possible.

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Project Hope and Fairness has been donating tools for cocoa farmers since 2006. Theoretically, Cote d'Ivoire has 6000 cocoa growing villages and if each village had a scale, they would make considerably more money. The best gifts to cocoa villages would be sprayers (mentioned by 100% of villages queried), trucks (ditto), and passable roads (ditto). But these are expensive, and scales are cheap ($500 each, delivered.)



1) Depa45.jpg
Donation of scale to Depa, Cote d'Ivoire, 2006.












2) Zereguhe01_scale+2.jpg
Donation of scale to Zereguhe, Cote d'Ivoire, 2006.











3) Dawayo-Chantier27.jpg
Donation of scale to Dawayo-Chantier, Côte d'Ivoire, 2008.










4) Abekro_Scale_Donation02.jpg
Donating a scale to Abekro, Cote d'Ivoire, 2009.











5) Djahakro_Ceremony.jpg
Donation of scale to Djahakro, Côte d'Ivoire, 2009.






6) Pezoan09_ChefScale.jpg
The chief of Pezoan checks out the village's new scale.
Pezoan, Côte d'Ivoire, 2010.





7) Tetie_Bascule.jpg
Albert presents the scale to the chief of Tetie, a village right on the Issia-Gagnoa road.
Tetie, Côte d'ivoire, 2010.





8) Soualika_PresOfWomen_0310.jpg
Scale paid for by two 8th grade classes from a school in Indiana. Students raised the money by designing chocolate bar wrappers, purchasing chocolate bars, wrapping them, and selling their products. They raised about $425, which is about 90% the cost of the scale. Perhaps you know some classes that would like to raise money for a scale. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty would not stand where it does were it not for the efforts of Joseph Pulitzer, grandmothers' and childrens' contributions? See http://www.ohranger.com/statue-liberty/history-statue-liberty. Can we do the same for cocoa farmers??
Soualika, Côte d'Ivoire. 2010.