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New Goal: $20,000.00

Tags: Africa, education, employment, poverty-relief, Tanzania Edit

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Five Years ago I began planning the building of a safari lodge in Tanzania the profit of which will go to finance rural development aid projects. One project per year with a known budget, after the financial books are closed, to assist NGOs aid in areas of education, employment, health and welfare. Our particular interest is to provide better education and employment prospects for young rural Tanzanians thus keeping them close to home and slowing down the exodus of young people to the major cities where they often do not find work and end up in an even worse kind of poverty than at home.

Only Tanzanian staff earn a salary at our lodge. I, the founder, and my family supporters, here in Europe, will not earn a penny from the project. However I have borrowed money to finance this project and this will be paid back in the first two or three successful years.

From then on all net profits go to aid projects but even before that we will be able to make small donations for local good causes. I am also now promoting two other causes through internet, for the building of a school and the upkeep of an orphanage.

This particular cause, however, is to ensure that regardless of how well we do in our first year that we will have enough capital to pay the second year's overheads. Should we be lucky enough to earn this money in the first year then all donations will go to benefit the people of Huduma, our local village and we will post here what we have done. The picture above shows how they typicaly live.

Fortunately our overheads are quite low. We have a good ecological footprint as we use reusable energy (solar & wind turbine), collect rainwater in the rainy seasons and do not use water flushing toilets but dry, compost toilets - the latest technology from Scandanavia is ideal for remote locations.

Thus our overheads are as low as 20,000 US$ per year and it is this amount that we hope to raise to ensure success and the ability to keep our staff in employment, which is also helping the local community.

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