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
and
"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,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
It is not the purpose of this
project to substitute the state's obligations for the supply of proper
scholastic structures in the project areas, except for safe drinking water,
sanitation facilities, and, eventually PV lighting for evening classes.
Formal currency
investments in school structures are not susceptible to the rapid interest-free
re-cycling at the basis of self-financing development projects.
Where, however, local
school systems are mostly to the charge of the parents and there is an acute
lack of:
a) Building
infrastructure
b) School furniture
c) Didactic material
d) Teachers
it may in some cases
be possible to improve circumstances under the project by taking advantage of
the possibilities offered by:
a) The local tank
commissions
b) The local money LETS systems
c) The local gypsum composite products factories
In practice any goods
and services which are locally available can be paid for under the local money
systems. These goods and services can include:
a) Gypsum composite
elements, including load bearing structures, for school buildings
b) Gypsum composite school furniture
c) Services of teachers willing to work under the local money systems with
salaries paid in the local LETS points
d) Reproduction of didactic material through PV television systems and/or
through documentary reproduction by local consultants set up under the
micro-credit systems.
Groups of parents and
or groups of tank commissions can take initiatives under the local money
systems and distribute their costs (expressed in LETS points) amongst the
groups directly involved. In this sense the groups involved can be registered
under the LETS systems in the same way as clubs or other social groupings.
There are 42 primary
schools in the project area. Where necessary, they will all be equipped with
drinking water, sanitation and PV lighting facilities.
Once the planned
local money system is in place, steps can be taken to improve the school
structures and, in cooperation with the Education Department, to build new
schools, provided teachers can be found to work there, where necessary fully or
partly under the local money system.
Primary schools
should where possible be placed close to pupils’ homes. They should be kept small, with one class for
each grade. In
A reasonable target
for the size of each class (excluding allowances for mentally handicapped
children) is (number).
The number of grades
(give number) multiplied by the reasonable standard class size (number) is
(number) pupils.
Each tank commission
area in the project area has, on an average, (number) children of primary
school age.
The number of tank
commission areas necessary to form a primary school is therefore (number).
There are 18
secondary schools in the project area. Where necessary, they will all be
equipped with drinking water, sanitation and PV lighting facilities.
Once the planned
local money system is in place, steps can be taken to improve the school
structures and, in cooperation with the Education Department, to build new
schools, provided teachers can be found to work there, where necessary fully or
partly under the local money system.
One secondary school
can be foreseen for each well commission area.
There are (number) well commissions to be set up in the project area. So
(number) secondary schools have to be set up in the area.
It is not expected
that local public transport be provided expressly for secondary school
students. Standard local public transport facilities will have become available
under the project. The schools should normally be within 2-
The project may
decide to set up cooperative purchasing groups and/or provide subsidies for the purchase of
bicycles to enable the children to go to school. The presence of bicycles in
the project area increases the potential mobility of other family members too.
05.36.3
FURTHER EDUCATION.
Children from the
project area who have secondary school certificates have the right to proceed
with further education.
This cannot normally
be done at project area level.
The nearest technical
schools are at (places).
The nearest
universities are at (places).
Promising students
have the right, where necessary, to be supported by the community they come from.
The extent of this support depends on scholarships and services provided at
regional and/or national level.
For students from the
project area, the scholarships and services provided for further education are:
(described the
scholarships and services)
The people in the
project area have a direct interest that young people qualify in their various
fields and return to practise their professions in the project area itself. For
this purpose, formal money scholarships and local money scholarships will be set
up.
Formal money
scholarships are paid out of the
Cooperative Education Fund. Communities can contribute to this fund at well
commission level and, eventually, at project level. Members will make a small monthly formal
money contribution to the Cooperative Education Fund (scholarships). The funds
will provide for higher education
subsidies for each of the well commissions. The well commissions will decide
how the subsidy available to them can best be distributed amongst qualifying
students and their families.
05.36.4
TRADES AND
A high school for
trades and crafts at project level is foreseen.
It is hoped that this
school can be set up by the project entirely under the local money system. Teachers are expected to come from the project area. They will be paid under the
local money system. The school is expected to be built under the local money
system.
Students or their
families will be expected to pay a small monthly formal money contribution into
the Cooperative Education Fund (trades) towards the formal money costs of
materials and equipment which cannot be produced locally.
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