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
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 : 03
January, 2006
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-
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.
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