Poverty Crusade. A Little African Villge’s Campaign Against World Poverty

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In this enthralling book, residents of Mpintimpi, a tiny impoverished village in Ghana, dispatch a delegation to draw the attention of their President to their appalling plight. Eventually, the determined villagers take their case to the West, which their President identified as partly responsible for their predicament. In frank exchanges with Merkel, Juncker, May and Trump, they make their concerns known. A surprise invitation by Queen Elizabeth II leaves them thunderstruck. What begins as a petition of a tiny village goes global, culminating in a global poverty march a la Greta Thunberg’s Global climate movement, with millions of people from Sydney to Accra, Manila to Sao Paulo and New York marching for urgent action aimed at world-wide poverty eradication—with one striking difference. Whereas the climate change movement plays out in the real world, this enthralling narrative is a virtual phenomenon, a product of a vivid dream fantasy of the author.

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POVERTY CRUSADE: A little African village’s campaign against world poverty POVERTY CRUSADE: A little African village’s campaign against world poverty R. Peprah-Gyamfi Perseverance Books Ltd POVERTY CRUSADE: A little African village’s campaign against world poverty All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2019 Robert Peprah-Gyamfi No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the copyright holder. Published by Perseverance Books Loughborough Leicestershire UK email: [email protected] ISBN: 978-1-913285-00-5 www.peprah-gyamfi.com Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9 (NIV). v Dedication T his book is dedicated to the poor, destitute and impoverished, those who among other things are forced to retire to bed hungry, for lack of resources; to dwell in dilapidated, squalid and appalling homes in filthy, overcrowded and dreadful slum settlements such as Agbogbloshie in Accra, Manila North Cemetery in the Philippines and Ciudad Nez, Mexico City, Mexico; to sleep rough in freezing and biting cold winters on the streets of New York, London, Moscow, etc. You and I can only hope and pray that a day will dawn in the not distant future when mankind will learn to set his priorities right and place the need to undertake immediate steps to rid the world of abject poverty high above that of investing trillions upon trillions of precious US dollars in weapons of mass destruction and research aimed at the discovery of life on far, far distant planets! vii Table of Contents Foreword.................................................................................. xi Acknowledgements............................................................... xiii Prologue: Thought-provoking final words of a departing one.............................................................................xv Chapter 1 The unending sufferings of a forgotten community........................................1 Chapter 2 Valuable connections and links of a grandson turned politician.......................11 Chapter 3 Free advice for the Ghanaian President on cost saving measures.................23 Chapter 4 The bold resolve of a humble village to challenge global powers.................45 Chapter 5 A clash of two worlds.....................................63 Chapter 6 Chancellor Merkel receives a free tutorial on Germany’s key role