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,
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
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.
Next file :
05.17
Environmental impact report.
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05.15 Creation of the project management
structure.
