Give someone a fish or teach someone to fish?

 o Food Preparation & Catering 

 o Food Science & Hygiene  

 o Nutrition  

 o Basic Bookkeeping  

 o General Electronics & Communications 

 o Sewing & Dressmaking 

 o Horticulture & Gardening  

 o Childcare  

 o Basic Health Care Diagnostic Training  

 o Basic Health Care Equipment Operation and Repair

 
Our community development training will be designed to assess and develop local citizen and community participation and leadership. Thus, derisking the potential for community control by traditional local elites; economic, political or social, and be undemocratic in their governance arrangements. We propose to provide and support training in democratic citizenry, including human rights, civil responsibility, community action, leadership skills, communications, public finance and administration (to promote community management skills that respect the rights of its citizens and responds to the common needs).  

The building systems technology to be utilized was developed by a company that makes compressed earth bricks. These bricks are tongue & groove construction, consist of 92% subsoil and 8% cement. They are extremely cheap, require no water or kiln processing and generate significant employment. The 1-ton compressed brick-making machine is mobile (capable of being towed by anything from a truck to Oxen.

We propose to train and certify local builders to construct affordable residential and commercial buildings using factory-built modules, which are fireproof, vermin proof, hurricane and flood resistant, and extremely cost and energy efficient. We can also make available electric power via solar roof tiles, solar arrays and small wind turbine systems as an option.

The products from this factory will help build

o Houses 

o Schools 

o Hospitals & Clinics 

o Stores 

o Markets 

o Warehouses 

o Light Industrial Buildings 

o Offices