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,
The project is
centred on basic hygiene education, on the installation of sustainable
sanitation, distributed clean drinking water, PV lighting for study, for the
people of the Kiogoro area in the Kisii central district in Kenya, and on the supply of efficient
stoves for cooking, the production of bio-mass to fuel them, and recycling at
local level and disposal of non-organic waste.
The project includes setting
up Community Health Clubs for hygiene education and hygiene education courses
in schools; provides sustainable toilet and wastewater facilities, wells (wherever
necessary), pumps, and water tanks; establishes local exchange trading (LETS)
systems to promote local exchange of goods and services; and implements an
interest-free revolving micro-credit system to pay in formal currency for items
and services originating outside the local communities.
The project also refers to PV
(photovoltaic) lighting for study and in clinics, and PV refrigeration for
medicines. Any PV lighting needed for separate local production initiatives
would be included within their respected micro-credit schemes. PV operated TV
sets for education can be included. Private Solar Home Systems (SHS) may be
financed by the Local Bank where users are able to sustain their obligations
under a hire purchase agreement for the SHS as well as meet their obligations
under the project itself.
High efficiency stoves for
cooking will be produced with 100% local value added as will the bio-mass
necessary to fuel them.
Where daytime cooking is not in
conflict with local customs, local manufacture of Gypsum composites solar
cookers will be set up under the LETS systems.
Recycling centres will be set
up to recycle non-organic refuse within the local currency systems.
Harvesting rain-water to
increase agricultural production and the general quality of life is promoted.
The project cost is €
8,000,000, which can be 75% financed through an interest free loan with a 10
year repayment time. Of the interest-free loan, 75% is expected to be made
available within the framework of the country programmes of one or more aid
partners, and 25% by the local people themselves through conversion of the
value of work done by them for the project under the local money system set up
at the rate of € 3 for each eight hour
working day.
A detailed indicative budget
is set out in section 07.10
The project will be continued for at least a further
10 years beyond the initial three years' start-up period. After the initial two
years, further development will be generated by the communities themselves
under the supervision of the Project Coordinator.
The initial project will take three years from the date funding is
approved, more particularly:
- Phase 1 : preparation and submission of the basic project.
- Phase 2 : final project preparation, arrangements with tax authorities,
formation of Health Clubs and starting hygiene education, starting organisation
of Gypsum composites production units, setting up of local currency LETS
groups; final project approval : 6 months
- Phase 3 : continuing hygiene education, building the sanitation services,
installing wells, pumps and tanks, starting cooker production, organising
bio-mass production, setting up the recycling centres : 18 months
- Phase 4 : installing water purification units and PV lighting systems for
study purposes. Continued production of cookers and of bio-mass to fuel them.
Rain-water harvesting.
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