Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
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bakensverzet
Incorporating innovative
social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive structures,
numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for women in
poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"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, London 1958, page 228
Edition 14
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.
05.36.1
PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND THE PROJECT STRUCTURES.
Primary
schools should where possible be placed close to pupils’ homes. They should be kept small, with one
class for each grade. In (host
country) there are (number) primary school grades. Primary education starts at
(years) for grade 1 and finishes at (years) at grade (number).
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).
05.36.2
SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND THE PROJECT STRUCTURES.
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 2-3
kilometres of students’ homes.
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 CRAFTS SCHOOL.
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.
Forward: rainwater
harvesting.
Back: elimination of
smoke hazards.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.