Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
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 13: 02
November 2006
This
project has been worked out with the users, who execute, run, maintain, pay for
and own all the structures.
The following
five basic conditions have been accepted by the users. Without them the
self-financing conditions of the project cannot be satisfied.
They are:
2.1 Acceptation of the Health Clubs. These
offer basic hygiene education courses. They also serve as a platform for women,
so that they can organise themselves and participate and play an important role
in the various structures foreseen. The health clubs therefore help address the
so-called "gender problem".
2.2 Willingness to pay (at least Euro 3) per
month per family of 5 (Euro 0,60 per person)
into the Cooperative Local Development Fund. This payment covers the
entire package of basic services foreseen (hygiene education, drinking water
supply, sanitation, waste removal, high efficiency stoves and fuel for them,
and lighting for study purposes.
2.3 Acceptance of the use of local exchange
trading (LETS) systems, which enable goods and services originating in the
project area to be exchanged without the need for formal money.
2.4 Acceptance of gypsum composite technologies which enable
most of the items required for local development to be made locally with 100%
local value added within the framework of the local LETS systems in local low
cost labour intensive production units.
2.5 Acceptance of dry composting toilet systems
with separation of urine and excreta. Aspects relating to the form, the colour,
the finish, privacy and similar will all be discussed with and decided by the
users. The dry toilet systems foreseen enable waste to be recycled at household
level so that problems connected with the pollution of surface and ground water
can be addressed at local level without the need for major investments.
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