Pennsylvania  USA 2003

	1. A hand-truck being used to carry small tree at a nursery in Pennsylvania.  No one in the USA would think of carrying a load like this on his or her head, or by hand.  Why should Africans be forced to do so, when alternatives are available?
	2.  Hand cart parking area at a large nursery.  Customer's use these carts (with pneumatic tyres and ball bearings) to carry the plants they have selected to the checkout area.  Loads of up to 200 kilograms are routinely carried.
	3.  A nursery customer carrying a heavy load of packaged topsoil on a welded steel handcart.
	4.  Another heavy load of packaged soil and compost.  Handcarts like this would have enormous use in Africa.
	5.  Customers bring their purchases to the checkout. These American gardeners do not find it beneath their dignity to use handcarts to ease their burden.  Neither would  African farmers if given the opportunity to possess a handcart of their own.  We need to enable them to do so!