Well, after a number of backward steps (including a double bank card fraud, robbed of the IngweNet NPC mobile phone at knifepoint, & 3 contracts that should have brought in around R100,000.00 and all I received was R700.00 over a period of 3 months), I took on a development contract in the Midlands, on the edge of the Battlefields Tourism Route.
Bearing in mind that the projects I have been taking on in my personal capacity have been funding IngweNet NPC for the past 4 years, whilst I have been developing the international investment pathways (because local South African investors are very slow in supporting local initiatives, despite the potential of way-above-average returns)........
The development contract has placed me in the right place, hopefully at the right time, to be presented with an opportunity to form a Joint Venture or Strategic Partnership with a local farmer who has a vacant, unused farm that is suitable to re-launch the IngweNet NPC Academy for Sustainable Holistic Agriculture and Sustainable Community Living on a TEMPORARY basis whilst we are raising the local funds in order to release the international inbound investments, the first amount being 5 million Euros. The international investments will secure a permanent home for IngweNet NPC in about 3 to 6 months from now.
Negotiations for the formation of the JV or Strategic Partnership are well underway, and the chances of success are very high.
The re-launch of the Academy will concentrate on the foundation course - the Sustainable EcoGrowing Systems course, aimed at potential Community Trainers / Mentors. This course (along with 2 others) has been presented and improved on over the past 20 years, and the Sustainable EcoGrowing System itself is extremely flexible, able to be set up anywhere in the world, with modifications for available area, climate, ecosystem needs etc.
The Sustainable EcoGrowing System is based on established Permaculture principles, promoting Organic Growing of vegetables, fruit, nuts, and animal products. Future courses include Regenerative Farming methods - essentially commercial Organic Farming in nature.
The Community Trainers / Mentors will be supported as Community Entrepreneurs, with the chance to grow their monthly income from a minimum of R10,000.00 to R30,000.00 over a period of 15 months. Additional benefits will also be possible - above average vehicle loans, medical benefits, retirement investments, and others normally only available to the "fat cats" of society, at the expense of many community members.
IngweNet NPC's Community Entrepreneur initiative also addresses the need for Food Security at the family level, and further provides for the development of those families as another type of Community Entrepreneur, with the opportunity to market their surplus produce, products, and services through IngweNet NPC's network for a sustainable monthly income.
IngweNet NPC is registered in the category of Sustainable Community Economic Development with the South African Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC) as a Non Profit COMPANY - with the mandate that it can raise investments and loans, not like an NPO that can only rely on grants and donations, most of which have now dried up.
I'd like to request that subscribers to this Blog invite all their social media friends interested in their own sustainability in these difficult times, to subscribe as well. Blog posts are infrequent at present, so we won't be spamming anyone with countless posts......
Also, because the Academy re-launch is likely to take place at the beginning of July, the inaugural re-launch course is open for a limited number of participants. Please tell everyone of this opportunity to become a part of this landmark initiative to positively change the lives of thousands of people (themselves included), not only in South and Southern Africa, but world-wide.
Yours in Sustainability,
Wayne.
(Dr Wayne "Ingwe" Lourens - Founder and Executive Director, IngweNet NPC).
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