SELF-FINANCING, ECOLOGICAL,
SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR
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"Money is not
the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The
Natural Economic Order
Revised English
edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 11: 07 February,
2010
Part 1.10
Introduction to (NGO) Stichting Bakens Verzet
Bakens Verzet is a Dutch name. It can be translated into English as
“Another Way”.
Help for
people in difficulty.
The NGO is a non-profit organisation.
The NGO supports people who are in a difficult
personal situation in the Netherlands and in developing countries to attain a
quality of life they consider to be reasonable through the promotion of
independent cooperative productive activities.
Most of the work of Bakens Verzet is dedicated to the
creation of social, economic and productive poverty alleviation structures in developing countries. This work is in
the public domain and full information on it can be downloaded from website www.flowman.nl, which is widely recognised by
search engines as a leading site on integrated development issues for the
world’s poor.
Priority is given in the NGO’s statutes to
assisting the following social groups to set up new independent productive activities:
1.
People over 50 years of age, especially qualified people with much working
experience, who are victims of age-discrimination in the labour market.
2.
Young unemployed with few
prospects of normal employment;
3.
Without competing with
existing social services, to help the handicapped set up independent
cooperative productive work activities as near as possible to their place of
residence.
In projects in developing countries this involves creating productive
employment for large numbers of people in each project area , greatly
increasing the quality of life there, and thereby stopping migration of people
from rural areas to poor urban environments. This can only be done by
addressing the gender issue so that women, typically responsible for most
productive activities in rural areas in developing countries, can play a leading role in the social, economic,
and productive structures set up.
The NGO tries to attain its goals by:
1.Carrying
out and supporting, where necessary in cooperation with educational institutes,
research on new ethically and ecologically responsible industrial and
agricultural materials, processes
and related services including copyrights and the deposit of models and
patents;
2. Carrying out and supporting ecologically responsible integrated development
projects for the world’s poor;
3. Supporting and developing (where necessary in phases) independently
and/or cooperatively executed
ecologically responsible industrial and agricultural activities and associated
services;
4. Storage, import and export , purchase, sale and distribution of
independently and/or cooperatively
executed ecologically responsible industrial and agricultural products;
5. Promoting of independently and/or
cooperatively executed ecologically responsible industrial and
agricultural products and associated services;
6.
Contributing to social reform and social integration through the promotion
of independent and/or cooperative
productive activities and services carried out under voluntary interest-free
inflation-free local economic structures and alternative local money systems.
Approved by the board of the NGO in Amsterdam on 25th
October 2005.
Other information on the Stichting Bakens Verzet is in Dutch.
1.11 Statutes and rules of the NGO (in Dutch).
1.00 Introduction index to the
NGO Bakens Verzet (in Dutch).
Typical list of graphs and drawings.
List of maps.
Documents for funding applications.
