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,
05.36
Some other typical productive structures.
Apart
from structures basic to poverty alleviation and an improved quality of life,
such as hygiene education at home and in the schools, water supply, sanitation
in the homes at schools and in clinics, solar lighting for study purposes,
solar refrigeration for medicines in clinics, improved cooking stoves etc,
neither the Model nor the draft rural development projects so far presented
attempt to list all of the initiatives which could take place, as these are as
varied as the minds and wishes of the people.
However,
any services the local people may consider of special importance can always be
included in the project and itemised in the budget. Some examples are the
setting up of a local radio station, setting up local milk shops for the
pasteurisation and distribution of milk, the creation of cooperative storage
facilities for food, especially for food for local consumption, the creation of
a seed bank and the draining and re-structuring of market squares and public
places. Many such poverty alleviation initiatives may require some
project-level formal money funds. Other initiatives, for instance, creating
sports clubs, theatre groups, local consultants’ offices, or communications
centres, plant nurseries, reforestation etc would typically be done under a
combination of the LETS local money systems and the interest-free micro-credit
systems.
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Structure for the local radio station.