MORINGACOMMUNITY ORG

       MoringaCommunity.Org is an unpaid volunteer run non-profit committed to helping the people of Ghana, W. Africa to improve their quality of life. To this end, Moringa Community is dedicated to developing sustainable locally appropriate technologies and to provide occupational opportunity mainly in the areas of trade and agricultural education which ultimately improves the quality of life for individuals, their families and their community in the lives we touch. Moringa USA has successfully partnered with Moringa Community Org Ghana enabling the construction and full operation of the Moringa Community School of Trades (MCST) in the village of Breman Baako, Central Region, Ghana.  MCST not only provides a high school level education to Ghanaian youth beyond the typical ninth grade education, but also adds vocational trade education to the curriculum. While studying high school level mathematics, history, English grammar & composition, MCST also provides training in machine-based woodworking, technical drawing, masonry, electricity & wiring, food services, art, weaving, sewing, soap making, introduction to computers and business education. Additionally, and most impressively, MCST offers extensive programs in agricultural, organic farming, animal husbandry, and as of 2014 operates what is considered by many to be the most successful food preservation educational program in West Africa through the introduction of traditional western style home canning.  This canning initiative has been sponsored primarily by private donors with additional but significant and generous support from Jarden Home Brands, makers of Ball Mason Jars and home canning supplies.     MoringaCommunity.Org (USA) is a 501(C)3 charity, founded by Jeffry & Linda Lohr in 2008, enabling the visionary Ghanaian, Abubakar Abdulai (Abu) to create the Ghana NGO Moringa Community Org (Ghana) and to build and operate MCST.  Although the majority of our funding to date has come from private individual donation, our charity has also been honored with significant support from Rotary International, DeWalt Industrial, The Philadelphia Foundation and The Dapplecroft Fund, and several generous private family trusts.  Although we have no affiliation with any religious organization, our project has also had support from a number of community church organizations.  In the end, however, it is the private individual donor that has supplied over 75% of our funding to date and from whom we most rely to enable this work.  Again we stress that our 501C3 is an unpaid volunteer run organization that has been able to boast an unprecedented average 96% annual programs to cost ratio since its beginning in 2008.   As we have a very limited 3 person volunteer staff, all of whom have demanding day jobs, we please ask that any correspondence be limited to those sincerely seeking to help our mission in some way. We will not reply to telephone solicitation. Email is our requested method of initial contact.