Medio Ambiente

A healthy environment in the Valley will enhance sustainable orange fruit production (SMART farming practices) that is complimented with more of organic and permaculture farming techniques. This healthy farming situation is expected to improve the livelihood, food, and nutrition security of local farmers in Rusitu Valley, Zimbabwe. The added capacity support a climate friendly farming practices.

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Nutrient-rich farming for full nourishment foods supply is an initiative we project to curb malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.We will encourage rural farmers by supplying those improved cultivars of crops and breeds of animals of high economic and nutrient-rich value from Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA)and others—to plant and rear.Doing this will make our project achieve a high degree of economic empowerment and sustainable livelihood impact on rural and urban centers.Food production and supply would increase by at least 50%,with continuous balance diet food supply, free of poisoning.

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Added capacity would help us better support our household demonstration sites and extend permaculture into surrounding communities. Through more frequent community visits, additional trainings and more field staff, Kusamala will work more effectively and consistently with our household demonstrations, ensuring they are productive, well-managed examples of permaculture in practice. We will help those implementing permaculture spread their ideas and innovations to others, ensuring uptake and sustainability of these practices, and creating a practitioner network to share best practices.

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I hope that this kind of curriculum, which combine scientific knowledge and real life challenges will be adopted by other lectures and other universities so that we may build a better environment and provide economic benefits and prosperity to local community.

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Given the difficult context of health in coastal communities, the expertise accumulated by the PSA with solutions, and the opportunities opened especially after the 2191 Ordinance, there is already a growing demand for extending the reach and the passing on of the methodologies developed. For this, a larger institutional structure is necessary to facilitate replication in other municipalities through training and advisory programs (like the Boat School), so that direct areas of expertise can be consolidated into a laboratory for social technologies that are transferrable to other regions in need.

The developed model can be reapplied on a large scale and generate systemic improvement in the form of service to all those previously excluded populations. We want to set up a specific program to meet this demand, systematizing the experience and transferring technology to other social actors in partnerships with NGOs, local public power, regional and federal governments, universities, and the private sector, functioning as a laboratory of best practices, qualifying basic actions and inducing internalization of health. Structuring the current Boat Hospitals as Boat Schools to train managers for replicating similar models in other regions likely to get funding for the Ministry of Health's Ordinance 2191.

- To promote participatory processes of integrated and sustainable community development, which contribute in an evident manner to the improvement of public policies, quality of life and the exercise of citizenship. It works directly in four counties in western Amazon.

- To consolidate the basic health care model integrated with public policies and adapted to the Amazon region - demonstrative, participatory, resolute, sustainable, expanding access to health services together with the most excluded riverside populations and promoting its replication in other regions.

Health model = R$ 77 per capita per year

Continuity PSA / 3 years:

Support for healthcare services R$ 128.000

Complementary Health Project R$ 54.000

Monitoring/Continuous Advisory 244.000

Training R$ 90.000

Total. R$ 516.000

Possible direct executors of basic health like CONASEMS / National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries, federations of municipalities, as well as potential beneficiaries (networks od social movements and riverine populations as REDE GTA, etc), as well as other private organizations and businesses involved social responsibility programs and other NGOs and advisory services for rural community development in other similar contexts.

Carrying out a systematization of experience and the publication of guidance manuals and for those interested in and replicating it, offering training and technology transfer services. Fulfillment of requests for consultations and field visits and prospective plans for spontaneous demands that arise. Broadening the impact of materials and publications.

Currently, education/prevention campaigns, training local agents, social control training,
health-related information technologies, and links with other related institutions to establish joint activities (surgical rounds, volunteer reception, residents and students via universities, etc.) With the structure of the Boat School, offering courses, residency, field visits to doctors and stakeholders in implementing the RiverFamily Health Model in their municipalities.

There aren't really any competitors because it is a unique model in Brazil, but there are indeed risk factors that could impair or interfere with the quality of the initial design. Among them, little managerial attention to these populations, unpreparedness of healthcare managers in meeting the requirements established by ordinance, leading to discontinuation of funding. A more welfare-centered project concept, displacing the education, prevention, sanitation, organization and popular participation components. Turning the service into what is just a replica of existing neighborhood health centers, with irregular quality and limited outreach. Lack of managerial ability to enhance other partnerships and institutions, supporting with research, education and service-related training.

Currently we have neither the funding nor the permanent staff that would permit us to develop the strategies proposed. We would like to systematize the experience and its divulgation, manage communication with clients and partners, and build mechanisms for sustainability in the future.

- Qualify complementary health actions:
-Health Education and Prevention / Education and Mobilization for Social Control
-Boat-School: Research and Professional Education / SFF Residency
-Support for the implementation of Sanitation Technologies
-Assistance to Municipalities in managing USFFs
-Cooperation with public, private and social institutions
- Publication of results

For twenty-five years, it has promoted basic health along the riverside with very significant impacts. And for eight years we have deployed a successful model featuring territorial coverage and complete basic healthcare, which has become public policy. This model has provided municipalities with the opportunity for funding via the Ministry of Health through its replication across the Amazon and Pantanal.

To consolidate the health model's demonstrated character in a social technology laboratory, complete integration into the public system, and the role of PSA as advisor for management, education, social control, teaching and research, information systems, rounds, etc. Institutional structuring for replication by training programs and assistance to other regions in need.

In 3 years: Dissemination of PSA's technologies and social practices to NGOs, social movements, public and private sectors, education, research and systematic model
Readjustment of PSA's role in the co-implementation of health actions Health (mobilization, education, prevention, social control, sanitation, education, and research).
Activities:
Assembling a portfolio of advisory services
Preliminary links (Municipalities, networks, etc.)
Initiatives emphasizing the surrounding region
Initiatives with other regions of the Amazon

The concerns our solutions will address are the negative costs be it financial, health, or otherwise, that many of the substandard realities of life in the third world bring down upon its people. The problems faced are anywhere in that range from annoying, to life saving, to cost saving. In terms of just cooking, fuel usage has the hidden costs of unhealthy smoke inhalation and the fact woman needs to go to the jungle (where she could potentially be raped and killed) to chop or gather. Our solution is to design a new way for them to cook which simultaneously burns less fuel and produces less smoke.

In just our first “solution” a new stove design aimed at better fuel efficiency and lowering negative impact health of the current design, we estimate an initial cost/labor cost of around $200 US, and anticipate charging $300. $50 would go to a local individual who would be taught the idea, and the steps previously developed by us for implementing said solution. $30 would come back to our group where the capital would be spent on further testing of design solutions already in progress or possibly to jump start the process of creating more solutions on a and $20 would go to the partner firm with existing money networks.

We sell better living solutions, such as our initial community stove product, to third world community government agencies who desire a better quality of life for their constituents. Unlike traditional charities and NGOs that typically distribute handouts to individuals, our innovative products are aimed at empowering entire at risk communities. Whatever the solution may be, we are giving these communities a tool, the knowledge of how to make said tool, and more importantly how to fix it themselves if something breaks. So often, you see the good intentions of people go to waste because they get caught up in the passing out handouts. Handouts only make a difference for as long as the handout lasts, Our group's ultimate purpose is to create a model that makes a permanent difference.

The value our solutions bring are that it allows members below the poverty line to enhance their living standards. This would improve their overall livelihood. Through the micro-financing model, the primary goal of community would to repay the initial cost of the solutions we set in place. Since the majority of the solutions our company would provide are of the communal scale, the physical expense of each solution would be spread amongst the members of the society. Benefit of this is that no individual family pays more than $1-5 a year. This is an important factor as majority of the people below the poverty line earn no more than $2 dollars a day. Asking one individual family to spend more $50 for one product is an impossibility.

We currently are working on making a more efficient stove for Abuesi, Ghana, a rural fishing village where we have a contact on location. The town of Abuesi contains approximately 3,000 inhabitants, a quantity provided to us by our source. There are more than 20 towns in the 5 mile radius around Abuesi. We learned that Ghana has approximately 300 miles of coastline proving that Ghana alone has over 6,000 villages along its coastline for us to sell our innovative stove. To go beyond that, looking at the continent of Africa alone, which as an estimated 16,000 miles of coastline, our company would be looking over 300,000 potential clients we would go to for just one of our product offerings.

Identification of the most pressing needs of an area would be the very first element or activity that is required for us to succeed. Locating and defining where the most pressing needs are in a community would give us a very important, very real perspective on what the people living under the poverty line actually need. Once we identify problem, our job would be to devise the best possible solution. We would conduct all the necessary and proper testing measures to ensure the best results possible for our customers. Once we reach a design for a solution we are content with, we will begin to market it for our customers and initiate proper distribution tactics.

Our business aims to create solutions of the highest quality to ensure the better livelihood of our customers. We strive to create solutions which will impact the greater good of third world communities. By creating high end offerings at low costs, we will make better living a reality to those who would have never thought possible. We will explore the more reoccurring issues which third world communities face today, and create a collection of solutions which these communities purchase from.

Our peers and competitors are mostly NGOs that give handouts in the form of "aid" to these impoverished nations and peoples, however the improved quality of life as a result of the handout only lasts for as long as the handout. We seek to implement living solutions that empower these people to raise their standard of living without a handout, so that the difference made lasts for generations and can be potentially improved upon further.

Identification of the most pressing needs of an area would be the very first element or activity that is required for us to succeed. Locating and defining where the most pressing needs are in a community would give us a very important, very real perspective on what the people living under the poverty line actually need. Once we identify problem, our job would be to devise the best possible solution. We would conduct all the necessary and proper testing measures to ensure the best results possible for our customers. Once we reach a design for a solution we are content with, we will begin to market it for our customers and initiate proper distribution tactics.

We are working hard to increase our product pallet and create the vital connections with some of the largest third world communities across the globe. These connections will enable us to grow.

We will scale our business by not only getting a stronghold in large third world communities, but creating important and exclusive partnerships. The more communities we begin to serve, the greater the revenue we build on.

Our company envisions a future where the standard of living in the third world is equal to that of the developed nations. We strive to innovate and offer the best solutions possible to achieve this goal. Through the plethora of options our company would be able to provide, rural communities would be able to better their living standards.

Within the next one year, we hope to complete the testing phase for our initial product offering of the more efficient stove. We also expect to establish partnerships with existing micro-financing firms to be able to offer our solutions in a low cost fashion.