The Pangaea Network • Bringing Together Institutions of Faith and Education to Overcome Poverty

The Pangaea Network creates jobs, income, and businesses in the poor nations. Working with a growing coalition of educational and faith-based institutions, Pangaea provides education and training, tools and technologies, and access to capital for entrepreneurs and their customers.

Pangaea, a nonprofit organization with offices in California and Accra, Ghana, has been developing its mission and methods in Ghana for the past two years. Its organizers have been working on educational issues and village social and economic development projects in Ghana for more than a dozen years.

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As Africa moves from subsistence to a cash economy, an overarching issue becomes how to bring business opportunities, education and training, and new opportunities for jobs and income to a scattered population speaking many languages, with a high rate of illiteracy, and many communities off the electric grid.

Pangaea’s answer begins with FIDE, The Faith and Development Network.  ■

http://www.pangaeanetwork.org
May 2008: (left) Pastor Kofi Fosuhene preaching about the Light of the World and showing a solar lantern at Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Patriensa, Asante Akim, Ghana. (right) Clergy of the Presbytery of Asante Akim, Ghana, meeting with Dr. Steve Eskow, Ms. Sarah Blackmun, and Elder Kofi Amiyadu to plan the introduction of home solar lighting through the Presbyterian churches of Ghana.
November 2006: (left) Dr. Steve Eskow delivers the keynote address to FIDE's Interfaith Conference on Appropriate Technology, Accra, Ghana, November 7-9. 2006. (right) Dr. Steve Eskow of Pangaea with Dr. Osei Darkwa of Ghana Telecom University College, and leaders of Muslim, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Mormon faiths in Ghana.