Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
(nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
Incorporating innovative
social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive structures,
numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for women in
poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"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 10:
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Social security structures.
Women play a basic role in the management of the structures set up. They also fully enjoy many of the benefits the projects bring with them. The first structures set up are the health Clubs, which enable women to organise themselves so that they can play an active role in running the tank commissions, which are the heart of the structures created. The tasks of the tank commissions are illustrated in the following drawing:
Tasks of the tank
commissions.
Water
fetching is eliminated in the second year of project execution. Women and girls
no longer have to look for wood for cooking. Smoke is eliminated from the
houses. The introduction of local money system monetises their work. The
introduction of interest-free micro-credit structures makes it possible for them
to start new productive activities. On an average each family should receive at
least Euro 1500 in interest-free micro-credits for productivity development
during the first period of ten years.
Proposed
activities do not involve treatment of HIV/AIDS directly. They do, however, have
a power indirect impact on the social environment of AIDS patients. First of
all, through the permanent, institutionalised activities of Health Clubs and the Hygiene Education
Courses in the schools. Secondly,
through a gradual reinforcement of the role of women in the community. Finally,
through the improved nursing opportunities available to the ill within the
framework of the local money systems.
The
elderly, the sick, and the handicapped fully share, without exclusion, in all of
the advantages brought by the projects. The financial structures created offer
several levels of protection to them, both with regard to their monthly formal
money contributions into the Cooperative Local Development Fund and within the
framework of the Local Money structures created.
Together
the structures set up form an advanced network of social support. For example,
local money debit units accumulated by a sick, elderly or handicapped member can
be distributed amongst the adult
members (some members, the younger members, or all the members) of his/her
family; amongst the entire group in a given tank commission area; amongst the
entire group in a well commission area; or even amongst the entire adult
population in a project area.
The
structures created should lead to the creation of full employment in each
project area within a few years, including employment for the blind and the
handicapped. A local radio-telephone structure for example could alone give work
to between 400-600 blind people in each project area.
Forward: environmental impact study.
Back: Project
management structure.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.
