Christina Jordan said:

Fundraising

Another $1,700 was also raised through lifeinafrica.com for the agricultural investment in 2007, however, for the sake of greater clarity and transparency of funds raised from global supporters, we have decided to reallocate the monies raised through lifeinafrica.com in 2007 from the agricultural investment budget to the community investment budget. (I’d hoped to have that reflected at givemeaning.com before posting this, but am still waiting on a response to some help I need from the givemeaning folks before proceeding).

Linda, David, Evvy, Dominic, Barbara: Given administrative changes at Life in Africa since I started (and shortly thereafter cancelled) the 2007 fundraising campaign, and the relatively small resulting amount of funds raised versus the personal investment in agriculture, it feels way more comfortable to us to simply separate those sources of funds completely.

The plan was to wipe the slate clean by sending all of you givemeaning ecards redeemable for the amounts you contributed in 2007 so that you could choose to reinvest in the Opok Farms Village project or any other project listed at givemeaning. Unfortunately, the givemeaning ecards are only available in Canadian dollars. I've asked for an exchange rate to work with. If I can get the amounts worked out then you should receive your ecards sometime next week after I've returned from Gulu (and put my mom on a plane). Plan B is that Christina Jordan makes a contribution of $1700 representing what all of you contributed. (Linda, the Onet money is included here).

your support to the agricultural investment is very very much appreciated, but given how things have evolved, it makes more administrative sense to us to limit online fundraising to the obviously social activities and let the agricultural investment be financed through private/commercial means. I hope you can understand our position on this.