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October 3, 2023

Interview with Evariste Plegnon.  2005-2008:  Evariste and I visited 12 villages.

Interviews with Anna and Katie Nakayama.  She raised about $2,000 from her church to buy four dryness meters.  Part of the 5,000 Villages idea;  solving two problems, weight and dryness.  Interview with Katie Nakayama, Anna's sister.  Her impressions.

Interview with Bob Peak, an Osage Indian.  Changing the idea:  building a rice hulling center and a small chocolate room in Pezoan.  The anger of Pezoan's chief.

Building the building in Pezoan.  Interview with Servando, the manager of the Pezoan facility.  Teaching Servando how to make chocolate.  Formation of the cooperative.  Description of his hopes to become a chocolate-producing facility.

CONCLUSION:  there is no reason for the cocoa farmer to remain a victim of the marketplace.

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