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 10: 15
August 2006
5.16
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 2600 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.
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