Dear Emmanuel/Volu members

I travelled down to see Nancy and Lemmie and the rest of their family last weekend so that I could welcome Lemmie back to the UK after his adventures in Ghana and to hear him tell everything that he did there, who he saw and made friends with and, in fact, all about it.

And what a wonderful and rewarding tale her had to tell! He is so full of all things to do with Ghana and what Volu is doing and has been doing in all the years since we were last in touch with you. He showed me all his photos and explained them all at great length so that I had some idea of the camps as well as all his travels about the country.

He was full of praise for you and the great work you personally do for the organization and everyone who comes in contact with it. It would be such a pleasure to be able to meet you and talk to you about everything, but Lemmie`s words are the next best thing and I feel he did a very good job in telling me about you.

I think he was quite overcome with the tremendous welcome you all gave him, and the help you offered him to make him feel he had come to a place that was like a second home to him. I don`t think you have seen the last of him!! I`m sure he will be back.

But the thing that knocked me backwards when I arrived at their house was to find all the things that he had brought back with him. All your wonderful kind presents and especially all the words from so many different people that were sent to me. I felt quite guilty that you should have so kindly remembered me, for although I was able to follow Gordon in the earlier days of Volu, and loved going to camps, when I started to have my children I had to drop out of a great deal of the activity. My special joy were the two camps I went to at Tsito – I think that they were some of the happiest times I ever spent in Ghana.

I shall never be able to thank you adequately for the wonderful presents you sent to me. I feel really humble that you should have thought of me so much. The lovely piece of cloth – just the colours that I like and very suitable too for an elderly lady. The colourful strip of real kente to treasure. The two grinding bowls - I had never seen a metal one like that before – so very useful. The Tsitu Sauce which survived the plane journey and will last me a nice long time, it brought back the taste and smell of Ghana perfectly (as did Lemmie`s Akpeteshi)

But I was particularly surprised and overwhelmed by the really beautiful and moving framed Citations that you honoured Gordon and I with. These are something that I will treasure and have hung on my walls for as long as I live, and will be able to pass down to my children after I am gone so that they will also always remember our years in Ghana and their connections with you. How I wish that Gordon could have known about all this. Let us hope that he can look down from wherever he is and join in our reunion and rejoice in the renewal of our acquaintance, as I do.

I hope that Nance will send you some photos that we had taken of us in the Volu dresses that you so kindly sent. And they fitted perfectly! Thank you again.

And now I have to send you every good wish with the very grateful thanks from my heart for looking after my beloved Grandson and giving him such a wonderful experience, and then for myself and all the rest of the family such a welcome back into the fold of Volu and with it the memory of the Ghana that we all loved so much.

With the warmest of loving greetings to Volu and particularly to you, Emmanuel, personally

From Sally Green