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Excited Travelers Focus on Future
 
Three more  people traveled to Ghana for the first time in the autumn 
of 2007.  Karen Joiner, a teacher from Great Britain, spent three weeks 
volunteering at a rural school,  the Academy of Human Development. Her 
small private school supported her by continuing to pay a part-time salary 
during her absence. Karen is the daughter of board president Rowland Joiner 
and she lived in West Africa as a small child.  Karen was apprehensive about 
her trip, but talking on the phone to the director of the school, Reverend 
Francis Oteng, helped to calm her anxiety about landing alone in a distant 
country.  Francis had asked Karen to do in-service training for his teachers. 
She gathered materials, planned the curriculum and prepared certificates 
of completion.  When she arrived she spent the first week observing the 
classes, then began training the teachers in three areas including classroom 
management.  The third week she watched the teachers use what they 
had learned and gave them feedback on their implementation, particularly 
around positive reinforcement.
On a personal level, Karen was overwhelmed by the welcome she received from 140 children singing and playing drums as she arrived.  She 
was amazed at how well behaved the students were and their ability to stay interested with few materials.  When she suggested that the children 
write letters to her students in Britain, a teacher quietly explained that they had no paper to use.  The most surprising thing for her was the 
desperate poverty, yet the people she met still seemed happy.  “One half of Reverend Oteng’s congregation is homeless,” she said. “I really felt 
that I was doing something that was positive and useful,” she continued.  When I asked her about the children, she spoke of having more and 
more of them attaching themselves to her and the feeling of wanting to bring a little three year old home with her.  
Quantum Connections had sent $2000 to the school in September for 
putting in toilets. The staff bathroom was completed when Karen arrived 
and the pits were dug and ready for the student toilets, but there was 
no money left.  Karen made a commitment to send all of her private 
tutoring money for a year to the school to ensure that the children have 
toilet facilities.  On one of her first tutoring days upon her return, a 
parent gave her forty pounds as a gift to the school.  Karen’s work is 
already making a difference and will continue to do so in many ways. 
Other  teachers  are  already  talking  about  wanting  to  make  a  similar 
journey.  This year, Quantum Connections will be trying to raise $4000 
for electric service for the school so that the children can use computers 
and science equipment.
A few days after Karen arrived, Britta and Del Moen traveled to Ghana 
from Minnesota with board member, David Evert.  Britta is a fifteen year 
old high school student who was  the force behind the collection of over 
10,000 books that were shipped to Ghana last year through Quantum 
Connections and Books for Africa.  Britta wanted to see the schools and libraries where some of the books are being used.  Britta’s father, 
Lutheran Pastor in Central Minnesota, decided to make the trip with his daughter leaving his wife Mary at home to worry about the two of 
them. Britta described the culture shock of 88 degree temperature upon arrival the first night, the rough roads and her fears at the hotel.  By 
the next day she was comfortable and she enjoyed the whole trip.  Her advice to someone her age is, “don’t go with any expectations.  Just 
embrace the experience.”  Britta feels that the time she spent in Ghana will have an impact on the rest of her life.  She plans to travel more, 
but she also thinks it has made a difference as she makes decisions about college and her life’s work.
Pastor Del Moen was interested in visiting church leaders in Ghana and seeing projects that he and other church leaders have supported 
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Children at a school QC supports.
Quantum Connections International
travel group at Slave Castle in ghana.

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Sustaining Donors
Karen Joiner
Jeanne Clegg
Pat Harmon
Carol Spearman
David Evert
Churches and Organizations
Mother Theresa Mission Group Staples
Wadena Churches Epiphany Gift
Holy Family ACC Women
Joseph Tichy Special Needs Trust
Peace and Justice Wadena
St Michael Catholic Church Motley
United Methodist Church Motley
Balsamland Lutheran Church
Common Ground Wadena
Clothing Closet
Experience Works: Gracie Meyer
The Computer Guy
Ryan’s PC Training - Ryan Andrews
Donors
J Bialka
D Borntreger
L Brenna
M Broding
R and K Collman                  
P Cordes
M and M Craig
G Eischens                      
 E and B Erickson
M Fallesen
C Gellner
Y Gildow
P  Harmon
J Heule
M A Higgs
M Holsapple
R Jarvis
T Ingebritson
J Inglehart
M King
 D Lemieux
S and M Lowther
D. Luciano 
M Luoma
R Lutgen
J McCarthy
J Meyer
T Mazig
J Melhorn
D and M Moen
M Mulcahy
D Mullikin
M Nichols
D and L Niles
S Odden
M Olson and J Regnier
L Porter
C Prescott-Adamietz
M Rascher
 T and B Rose
M and O Sauter
C Schenk
C Schmidt
M and R Sperley
E Topp
I Turner
S. Tyrrell
R and C Weber
J and J White
S Yetter
Excited Travelers…
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ThAnkS TO All OuR DOnORS in 2008
QUANTUM CONNECTIONS IS A 501(c)(3) CHARITY
through fund raising programs in the Wadena area.  Del carried donated dollars from one of his churches to use for a worthy project. 
He chose to buy Moringa seeds for several farmers to plant.  The Moringa tree is a miracle plant that can be made into a medicinal tea, 
nutritional supplements and other cash crops.  Several organizations across the world, including the United Methodist Church’s relief 
organization (UMCOR) and Rotary, are working with the development of this plant that will be economically and socially beneficial in 
African countries.
Pastor Moen found himself in interesting meetings at Trinity Seminary, discussing the possible links between community health worker 
training for ministers and community college programs in the Wadena-Staples area.  Del commented, “I was interested to see how difficult 
a trip like this would be and how well projects are working that we have helped to fund.  The trip was probably the best one I have ever 
had and we are not wasting our money!  It was an incredible experience.”  Del and Britta are very willing to talk to groups about their time 
in Ghana.  Unlike Karen, who worked at one site, Britta and Del traveled to several projects including ones in remote villages.  All of the 
group journeyed to Cape Coast and visited the Slave Castle and a national park.  Each of these experiences affected them in different ways 
from the horror of the slave markets to the wonder of the rainforest tree top walk.  The ability to see another country, participate in the 
life of local people, create connections between cultures and make a difference in the lives of others has changed the future of three more 
travelers.  We encourage anyone who is interested in finding out more about traveling to contact us.
* * * *
Other brief news. Our Partner in Sierra Leone has continued to offer micro-loans to farmers. He writes that in one village he is regarded 
as some kind of king as he has helped people rebuild a school that had been destroyed in the civil war with money donated by QCI. Also 
from Benin we have received an  account of the micro-loan system managed by our Partner there, Global Development. Information sent 
gave us particulars of each woman borrower, how many loans they had received and what they had managed to do with the money.
 

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financial report 2008
Board Members:
Global Partners:
008
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089
233
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493
145
097
139
40
069
175
16
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160
638
Expenses
Ghana/Benin 2007
5,114
Opoku Ware School Ghana (2007)
1,000
Sierra Leone, School and micro-loan
3,000
Ghana Partners visitors’ expenses
2,145
Ghana Klikpo roof
500
Logba Adzakoe school
550
Logba school
1,805
Ecuador - ASA Computers
675
Ecuador Partnership – ASA research
7,080
AHD School Ghana
2,050
Benin Global Development – micro-loan
capital and mosquito netting
11,000
Office equipment
325
Fundraising, Annual Reports and Admin
768
Bank charges
57
Miscellaneous
52
Total
$ 36,321
At the end of the year 2008 QCI has $ 15,295 in hand, most of
which has been donated for Ecuador ($ 7,080), Klikpo water
project ($ 3,000), AHD ($ 250) and the Floersch Foundation
($ 3,820) , plus approximately $10,000 at December 2008
prices in mutual funds.
Donations in Kind
Administration: labor costs
$ 3,200
Clothing Closet: labor
6,200
Office space
1,200
Storage/workshop
900
Any books donated were given to Books for Africa; computers
are only considered donations in kind when they have been
refurbished and shipped to partner projects.
Financial Report 2008
We opened the year 2008 with a balance of over $10,000 most
of which was already earmarked for particular projects.
Income
Equipment for Logba school, Ghana
$ 3,089
AHD school
1,233
11,000
School at Kpossidjou, Benin
493
Global Partners support
2,145
Quantum Closet clothing sale
1.097
Quantum Gift Shop sales
139
Floersch Foundation
40
General donations
4,069
General fundraiser
175
Bank interest
16
Miscellaneous
2
Ecuador Partnership – ASA
14,160
Total
$ 37,638
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Katherine Collman
Bernardo Creamer
David Evert
Rowland Joiner (Chair)
Catherine Prescott-Adamietz
Rin Porter (Secretary)
Carol Spearman
John Sumption
Global Development Benin:  PROMETRA Ghana;  AHD Ghana;  Rev. Musa Jambawai Sierra Leone;
Associacion Solidaridad Y Accion Ecuador  
tools for training program purchased from Wadena Church
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