Day 15 of 40: CRISIS INTERVENTION Campaign & Solar Development Project Proposal

They are crying out for help - can you hear them? The children are crying because there's not enough food. The mothers are crying because they can't feed them. The fathers are crying because there's no work. The Pastors are crying because they need your help. We can't let them down. The goal is to meet the needs of this proposal by July 10th. Will your help we can do it and end the shedding of tears. Join me....
 Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. 
International Missions  Charitable Projects
“He that hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.” Proverbs 19:17
July 2009
To the Reader of this Proposal:
As the President and Founder of Harvest for Humanity International (HHI), Inc. I am pleased to share this amazing humanitarian opportunity for your review and involvement. We are building a premiere solar project called LifeVillage™ in Uganda and Kenya to lift struggling village communities out of abject poverty, into self-sufficiency, out of darkness and into the marvelous light! We hope to engage your support in one of the following ways:
1. Sacrificially contribute to this proposal at any level you can.
2. Share this proposal with someone you know or love who can also help within 3 days of receiving it.
3. Prayerfully seek God for guidance on what or how you might be involved in a greater way.

We are faithfully believing for the airfare to deploy our Volunteer Leadership team on August 1st, 2009 to Uganda. My job will be to minister hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable circumstances; as well as solicit and secure Presidential/government support for the LifeVillage™ venture in both Uganda and Kenya. However, to ensure our success as well as stabilize and strengthen our pilot site partners we must quickly meet the needs of this proposal. Both groups are seriously overwhelmed by food scarcity, dwindling resources and the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and families that need food daily, educational stipends, medical intervention and spiritual and emotional support.
Our development project partners are leaders Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions (CPES) led by its President Ambassador Richard N. Swett, FAIA; and, Envision Solar International (ESI) co-founder and the co-creators of LifeVillage™ William Adelson, AIA. Michael Rowan of CPES who has an extensive background in community enterprise efforts and best practices with the Alaska indigenous people is working closely to strategically guide us. He is very familiar with efforts in Canada, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago and the Sudan.
The mission of Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. is “help for those in need by connecting people who care.” We hope this proposal will reach far and wide to compel those who can to give generously to this very worthy cause. If you need additional information to solidify your participation and/or for us to secure a donation please call me at 760-576-7925 or email me at Vivian@harvestforhumanity.org. You can also donate directly into our Bank of American bank account #11754-67452. Checks should be made payable to Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. c/o The Servant and sent to 2604-B El Camino Real #266 – Carlsbad, CA 92008. Finally, you will be able to donate online at www.harvestforhumanity.org using your Visa or MasterCard within 5-7 days. Thank you for your serious consideration of this proposal and we are truly grateful for the hope of your generosity!

“Write the vision, and make it plain…that he may run that readeth it…but at the end
it shall speak, and not lie…it will surely come…” Habakkuk 2:2-36-Month Crisis Intervention Campaign and Solar LifeVillage™ Development Project Proposal
For: July/August 2009 – December/January 2010

Pilot Project Sites
EAST AFRICA: Agape Community Ministries and Agape Education Centre - Mateete, UGANDA
Malindi Integrated Community Project and Jabez Preparatory School & Home - Malindi, KENYA

Project Administrator: Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. ... International Missions  Charitable Projects

Vivian Johnson, President/Founder
Mailing Address: 2604-B El Camino Real #266 - Carlsbad, California 92008
Direct Line: 760-576-7925 ... Email: Vivian@harvestforhumanity.org

Development Project Partners
Climate PROSPERITY Enterprise Solutions™
Ambassador Richard N. Swett, FAIA - President
19 Pleasant Street - Second Floor … Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Office: 603-226-1072 … Fax: 603-226-1071

Envision Solar International
Bill Adelson, AIA Co-Founder
4225 Executive Square, Suite 1000 … LaJolla, California 92037
Office: 866-746-0514 … Fax: 858-799-4592

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW

”He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he
hath given will he pay him again”. Proverbs 19:17
In Africa, poverty and disease continue to seriously ravage development efforts. Today, this is exacerbated by the global economic crisis. In Uganda five consecutive seasons of prolonged drought is causing severe food shortages. Recently in Kenya a fire that burned 250 peak tourist season villas has forced an even greater burden of food scarcity upon the Community Leaders. These are only a small part of the challenges faced by villages to be served via this proposal prepared by Harvest for Humanity International (HHI), Inc.
Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB are the three leading killer diseases in both countries. Women and children bear the brunt of poverty and disease. The lack of access to clean water and sanitation account for a significant portion of health problems at the community and household levels. The future of sustainable development in Africa rests with alliances and strategic partnerships that mobilize human, intellectual and financial capital that strengthen communities and empower women toward self-sufficiency. Long-term independence and economic growth is contingent upon accessible and reliable energy, which must be an integral part of any humanitarian endeavor to ensure a solid foundation for building a “sustainable” future. (See Attachment B: Excerpt on Energy Poverty from the Book “Hot, Flat & Crowded”)
Everyday in Africa over 15,000 people die of treatable diseases, and that was before the current economic woes, the fires and the unreliable rain. The people in Africa are pleading for your help. Most people are aware of the problems in Africa; however, many don’t feel they can do anything about it. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Through this “Crisis Intervention Campaign” proposal we hope to give as many people as possible the opportunity and vehicle to get involved in changing the face of hopelessness through the spirit of giving, that’s our vision.
In Uganda there is little consistency of electricity available to unfinished or dilapidated school buildings. There is are no affordable medical facilities, a church building that has been torn down once and blown down on another occasion or community facilities for running electrical infrastructure for basic needs such as pump motors for water wells, which threatens both the life and minimal well-being of the village. About 70,000 people living in poverty are dependent upon these facilities for which there is a profound and urgent human need for power and improvement. Land and labor is available from church and community groups that are committed to improving the welfare of the population.
In Kenya there is no accessible water, no energy, no health or economic infrastructure in a community of approximately seven thousand people. The need is profound and the villagers are desperately poor, depending on the good will of church groups and donors. Ten acres of land is available and the village people are ready, willing and have been waiting for two years to begin the work for a constructive solution. In the meantime they have sat by and watched their family and community members die of treatable diseases such as cholera, malaria and HIV.
The current global economic crisis is causing both our pilot site partners Agape Community Ministries including Agape Education Centre and the Malindi Integrated Community (MIC) Project including Jabez Preparatory Academy & Home to experience tremendous hardship and an even depleted capacity to meet the needs in their respective villages. In an effort to better situate both organizations for the transition into solar prosperity it is imperative that we identify ways to reduce the current traumatic and deadly situations that are consuming their intellectual and limited financial resources.
Vivian Johnson, President and Founder, Harvest for Humanity International (HHI), Inc. has been designated as the International Goodwill Ambassador for the pilot site partners in Uganda and Kenya, and the Project Administration for this proposal.
HHI has engaged Climate PROSPERITY Enterprise Solutions™, (CPES), and its strategic partner, Envision Solar International, (ESI), to develop two LifeVillage™ pilot projects for Agape Community Ministries and Agape Education Centre in Mateete, Uganda; and, the Malindi Integrated Project and Jabez Preparatory School and Home in Malindi, Kenya. The LifeVillage™ concept is a modular self-contained “village in a crate” that provides shelter, clean energy and purified water for health and education, but also modern communications, facilities, equipment and transmission capabilities for cell phones, internet, radio and television. The photovoltaic equipment produces electricity from the energy contained in sunlight, a proven technology that has been used for more than 30 years. (See Attachment A: 1-7)
HHI’s endeavor to administratively orchestrate a project of this magnitude requires that we are reasonably funded as identified by the project budget needs. And to ensure project success we must stabilize the project site participants as well. We are soliciting a combination of pro-bono services and donations, as well as generous financial contributions to ensure the urgent fulfillment of this proposal and the launch of our plan to intervene.
On June 2, 2009, there was a telephone conference call of a dozen participants in three countries to discuss moving the projects forward, including:
 Vivian Johnson – President/Founder, Harvest for Humanity International, Inc.
o Dr. Paul Underwood - Volunteer Ambassador for Health/Medical
o Doug Morris - Volunteer Ambassador for Construction
o Jessica Molina - Volunteer Ambassador for Orphan/Vulnerable Children
o Minister Tawana Cooper - Spiritual Strategist for HHI
 Pastor George W. Nsamba, Founder - Agape Community Ministries & Agape Education Centre (Uganda)
o Moses Nsamba, J.D. – Board Member, Agape Community Ministries
 Ms. Helen Mwereru, Founder - Malindi Integrated Community Project and Jabez Preparatory School and Home (Kenya)
 Ambassador Swett – President, Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, LLP
o Michael Rowan – Community Enterprise Expert, Political Policy Strategist and Author
o Harold Johnson, Jr. – Property Management Expert
 Bill Adelson – Co-founder of Envision Solar International and LifeVillage™

FRAMEWORK FOR A SOLUTION

CPES understands these situations and has designed an Enterprise Model from proven success cases where the poverty rate was reduced by 67% in one generation (Alaska’s indigenous tribes) and where capital and credit to the poor increased their income significantly (Grameen Bank in Bangladesh). A program that was modeled after the Grameen Bank concept. Additionally, to understand the full extent of the solution, a 14-page paper on the “LIFEVILLAGE™ ENTERPRISE MODEL” is available upon request. That paper explains how the model evolved, what it entails, how it worked elsewhere and how we can make it work in Africa.
To understand how the Enterprise Model, using surplus solar energy from a LifeVillage™ can lift a local economy and village, giving new hope, a 3-page paper entitled “LIFEVILLAGE™ ECONOMIC MULTIPLIER” is also available upon request. That paper describes the direct and indirect economic multipliers flowing from the deployment and use of a LifeVillage™, as well as the three-step framework for finding, funding and financing to realize the dream.
PROJECT TIMELINE

Date Activity Responsible Party
August 2008 Inaugural Site Visit & Tour to Uganda Vivian Johnson
In Process Transition informal charitable activities into an international non-profit organization. Vivian Johnson/HHI
Spring 2009 Develop site plan for ACM/AEC as directed by Envision Solar Pastor George W. Nsamba ACM/Bill Adelson ESI and Doug Morris HHI
Summer 2009 Revise site plan into full architectural design Bill Adelson/ESI
June 2, 2009 Solar Project Partner Planning Conference Call to discuss and facilitate a plan of action. HHI & Volunteer Ambassadors, CPES, ESI, ACM (Uganda), MIC Project (Kenya)
June 6, 2009 Complete Solar Development Plan Planning Proposal Ambassador Dick Swett & Michael Rowan/CPES and Vivian Johnson/HHI
June 30, 2009 Complete 6-Month Crisis Intervention & Pilot Solar Development Project Proposal Vivian Johnson/HHI and Michael Rowan/CPES
July 1-30, 2009 Solicit Support for the Crisis Intervention & Pilot Solar Village Development Project Proposal All Partners
August 1-15, 2009 - Inaugural Volunteer Leadership Team Site Visit & Mission
- Introduce Volunteer Ambassadors to their project counterparts to begin preliminary solar project preparation and planning HHI/ACM/MIC Project
Aug./Sept. 2009 - Solicit and Secure Presidential/Government endorsements for the pilot solar sustainability village projects in Uganda and Kenya.
- Minister to religious and community leaders, church constituency and children a vision of hope, healing and deliverance. Vivian Johnson, Pastor George ACM (Uganda), and Helen Mwereru MIC Project (Kenya)
September 2009 - Inaugural Site Visit to Malindi Integrated Community (MIC) Project site (10 acres of barren land) and the Jabez Preparatory School & Home.
- Begin the process for 2 water wells on the property. HHI and MIC Project
October – November 2009 Design and write the Uganda and Kenya solar LifeVillage ™ proposals with ESI, meeting all the criteria and needs of the funding and financing sources upon receipt of the $20K fee. Lead – CPES and ESI, and all partners.
November 2009 –February 2010 - Prepare the deployment plan and budget with ESI and appropriate sources in Uganda and Kenya including the village sponsors;
- Present proposals to national and international funding and financing agencies (such as the World Bank’s Clean Technology Fund, the U.N. Development Program, the US Agency for International Development, and so on);
- Present proposals to national and international health service providers for their commitment and programming (including NGOs, foundations, multilateral institutions and foundations such as Gates);
- And upon indications of success, prepares the village for deployment.
- Design and schedule the specific village enterprise plans for Uganda and Kenya (each of which will be distinctly different) and ESI plans the deployment logistics for each project location. Lead – CPES, and all partners.

Note: All Partners include Harvest for Humanity International, Inc., Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, LLC., Envision Solar, Agape Community Ministries/Agape Education Centre (Uganda), Malindi Integrated Community Project and Jabez Preparatory School & Home (Kenya).

Budget Narrative and Development Plan Costs

HHI worked with both project sites to prepare a fairly conservative intervention budget. Uganda has a much bigger project site with 7 affiliate locations with the headquarters being the largest at 4.5 acres. They have a total of 147 individuals who work in the ministry and the school. Most of the staff have not been paid consistently, if at all, which is the second largest budget item outside of facilities. Overcrowding, a half built school structure that was blown down is in much need of rebuilding to maintain the integrity of the school with local officials. This must take place immediately. On the otherhand, Kenya’s primary need and largest budget item is water. Wells must be dug that are not tapping into the salty Indian Ocean water, but from elsewhere as located by an Engineer. The total Crisis Campaign budget for all involved is $234,687.
HHI is in transition as an international non-profit organization. Previous charitable activities were from personal funds and general church support where a tax-deductible recognition was not necessary. HHI’s desire to make a difference in the Ugandan and Kenyan projects immediately attracted highly reputable support, which requires suitable start-up funding to ensure effective administration of this project and long-term success.
CPES has estimated the cost of preparing a pilot development proposal to be $20,000 which is included in HHI’s budget. Professionals from CPES and ESI have agreed to work at 1/3 their daily pay rates on this worthy proposal, but can not perform all the work pro bono. This covers approximately fifty days of work by various individuals or teams of experts from CPES, ESI, Harvest for Humanity International, Inc., and the two project-sponsoring organizations in Uganda and Kenya, and including the approximately ninety days of office, communications, travel and expenses entailed by the work program. The full project financing cost for the LifeVillage’s™ is estimated at approximately $3-5 million and will be solicited from favorable global financing institutions. We can assure the angel-investor that its $20,000 will be returned in full upon the successful funding or financing of either project in Uganda or in Kenya.

“Charge them that are rich in this world…that they do good, that they be rich
in good works, ready to distribute…” 1 Timothy 6:17-18

TARGET DATE OF FULFILLMENT: Friday – July 10, 2009
6-Month Crisis Intervention Campaign & LifeVillage™ Solar Development Project Budget
Agape Community Ministries/ Education Centre (Uganda and Malindi Integrated Project/Jabez Preparatory
Academy & Home (Kenya) and Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. (HHI)
For: July/August 2009 - December/January 2009/2010

ITEM Uganda Kenya HHI
ADMINISTRATIVE
Administrative $ 4,500 $ 6,600 $ 20,000
Accounting $ - $ - $ 3,000
Car Allowance $ - $ - $ 2,000
FICA .0765 $ 1,530
Legal Fees $ - $ - $ 3,000
Medical $ 1,000 $ - $ 1,500
Payroll $ - $ - $ 2,571
Salaries $ 18,700 $ 13,080 $ -
Stipends: Village/Othe$ 7,000 $ - $ 3,000
SOLAR EXPENSES
Consulting: Solar Proposal Preparation $ 20,000
Guest Prep $ 7,660 $ 4,360 $ -
OPERATIONS
Computer $ 2,000 $ 3,000 $ 1,000
Construction $ 10,363 $ - $ -
Electricity $ 1,500 $ 1,500 $ -
Entertmnt/PR $ 1,000 $ 500 $ 2,000
Facility $ 18,948 $ 2,400 $ -
Food $ 10,000 $ 1,500 $ -
Fundraising $ 500 $ - $ 2,500
Internet Services $ 1,000 $ 1,800 $ 600
Office/SCHSupplies $ 2,000 $ 2,500 $ 2,000
Postage $ - $ - $ 300
Printing $ 1,000 $ 500 $ 1,500
Subscriptions $ - $ - $ 200
Telephone $ 2,750 $ 1,800 $ 600
Transportation $ 10,265 $ 2,160
Travel: Intl $ - $ 2,500 $ 10,000
Travel: USA $ - $ - $ 3,000
Urgent Water Pjt $ - $ 10,000 $ -
TOTAL $ 100,186 $ 54,200 $ 80,301

GRAND TOTAL $ 234,687

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Vivian Johnson

Vivian Johnson is a Marketplace Minister, Speaker and Author with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. She has a diverse background of ministry, leadership, fundraising, program development, volunteerism and advocacy. She is a graduate of the Self Employment Loan Fund Micro-Enterprise Training Program and a lifetime member of Income Builder’s International, known as the Superbowl for Entrepreneurs.

Her career in the charitable arena included, HIV/AIDS, reproductive healthcare, teen pregnancy, youth-at-risk, women’s issues, philanthropy, domestic violence, child-abuse, political advocacy, micro-economics and welfare reform. The former Ms. Black Arizona channeled her passion for humanity into a charitable television talk show she created to encourage 1 million charitable acts. The idea grew from a seed that was planted when a stranger she met in a mall 8 years earlier was led to pay for her to finish college. He said he wanted to reduce any possible roadblocks to her potential to change the world. She hosted and executive produced “The Vivian Phillips Show” on CBS, her second television talk-show. The first was on cable television.

Vivian Johnson has received many distinguished awards and recognitions for community service and leadership, including being nominated “Outstanding Business Woman of the Year”. She continues a legacy of service by partnering with the National African American Tobacco Education Network who helped her debut a very unique faith-based product she authored called the "Heaven Sent Testimony & Deliverance CD" for nicotine and other addictions. It was featured at the National Tobacco Conference for the United States in 2007 where Ms. Johnson was also the keynote speaker for the conference Prayer Breakfast. After being addicted to nicotine for over 25 years she is personally committed to reduce tobacco addiction in communities of faith and developing nations. Ms. Johnson is part of the San Diego Tobacco Coalition and the International Network for Women Against Tobacco. She is classified as a faith-based cessation expert. Ms. Johnson resides in Oceanside, California with her husband Fredric D. Johnson. They are faithful members of Outcast Ministries where Pastor Percival W. Hye, Sr. is Pastor. Ms. Johnson is the acting Sunday School Superintendent, in the Women’s Ministry and passionate for non-traditional evangelistic outreach activities and events.

THE CALL TO AFRICA: In 1994 Vivian Johnson, known as Vivian Phillips at the time, was visiting a friend’s home when she was handed an invitation to the “The African American Summit” with the late Dr. Leon Sullivan. At that time she had no desire to ever leave the country, but when that package touched her hand she knew she was on her way to Africa. Every year since that first trip she longed to return to Africa, not knowing why or for what. Over the next 15 years, unbeknownst to her God would use that time to prepare her for the work of the ministry through a long and arduous journey that supernaturally equipped her with the nature and character of Christ, which is essential to fulfilling God’s call. She underwent a serious spiritual conversion that God called “an inside job”. The process included being molded and established in her faith in the face of tragic and destiny defining events such as the sudden the death of her mother, a marriage proposal that ended with her would-be fiancé being returned from China in a casket, and her television talk show on CBS being spiritually squashed – for now. Then in 2008 the opportunity to return to Africa manifested. She met Pastor George W. Nsamba and his wife Joy, from Uganda, getting off an elevator in a Los Angeles hotel. That unique encounter beautifully facilitated by God and was the continuation of what could be a lifelong commitment to the Mother Land (Africa) and its people.

PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR

 Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. 
International Missions  Charitable Projects

Vision – to change the face of hopelessness through the Spirit of Giving.
Mission – to help those in need by connecting people who care. We minister to the secular and
religious communities opportunities to volunteer time, donate goods and contribute
financially to international missions and charitable projects.

HHI will provide the overall strategic leadership necessary to facilitate support for the project sites. That includes but is not limited to strategic planning, public appearances, donor solicitations, general fundraising, management and technical support. Contact Information: HHI, 2604-B El Camino Real #266 – Carlsbad, CA 92008 – Telephone: 760.576.7925 – Email: Vivian@harvestforhumanity.org – website: www.harvestforhumanity.org.

PROJECT SITES

A Message of Hope to Project Site Partners on June 29, 2009 by Vivian Johnson
17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst,
I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make
the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree;
I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of
the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. Isaiah 41:17-20
Agape Community Ministries (ACM) and Agape Education Centre (AEC)
Founded by: Pastor, George W. Nsamba and Joy Nsamba in 1994
Location: Mateete in the Sembabule District (UGANDA)
Staff: 147 people
Population: Mateete Village 58,565, Sembabule District 203,253

Mission - to transform communities and restore destines by creating and giving hope to the hopeless – with AGAPE (unconditional) love, and hence a growing capacity to resource Sembabule and the nation with her blessing.

Vision – a new HIV/AIDS free generation: hopeful, growing, resourceful and God-fearing
Leaders of a developing nation.

SITE INFORMATION: Issues facing Uganda are political turmoil, high levels of poverty, lack of water and consistent electricity, poor health, disease,, gender inequality, food insecurity, high illiteracy levels, inadequate educational facilities, prevalence of HIV/AIDS orphans and widows. The area is situated in a semi-arid zone with very unreliable rainfall patterns, and has experienced five consecutive seasons of
prolonged drought which, aggravates the already abject poverty situations and food shortages.

ACM is a Christian non-profit organization headquartered on 4.5 acres of land in the sub-county of Mateete and services about 4300 people (despite the hardships) in the Sembabule District with a population of over 200,000 people and the Namutumba District with a population of 170,000. The ministry started with the Nsamba’s taking in homeless children and saving them from starvation. Today they continue to offer the opportunity for an education in a favorable atmosphere where OVC can learn and excel academically and spiritually. Additionally, they want to establish and integrated educational institution that will provide formal education, life skills and tertiary skills training (i.e. typing, tailoring, carpentry, computer skills, etc.).

ACM includes 8 village churches, 4 primary schools and one secondary school that serve approximately 1000 OVC. The Mateete property has primary and secondary schools building that are unfinished. The boys and girls dormitory facilities are both overcrowded and an additional boy’s dormitory has begun construction but is not completed. None of the facilities have electricity or lighting and therefore can not be used during the evening hours. The church building collapsed once due to poor construction on top of 300 children, thankfully no one was injured. The rebuilt structure was torn down to accommodate church growth of about 1000 transient members. Today the only thing that remains is a structure foundation which was saved with the materials taken from the second church structure that was built. The church has not been completed because of a lack of funds.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

1. To control the major limitations to social economic development in our communities; caused by the problem of the ever-increasing number of OVC who are illiterate and without any support.
2. To establish indiscriminative, integrated, self-sustaining educational institutions that will impart to the OVC a multitude of skills, irrespective of their religious, racial or social affiliations.
3. To establish community institutions and structures to allow the OVC easy access to vital services such as education, better health care, a place to call home where they would be raised up in the fear of God, and training.
4. To enable these OVC to acquire spiritual and moral values.
5. To increase project area coverage targeting hard-to-reach areas in order to provide services to the OVC in various other village locations.
6. To operate and develop income generating projects to support the organization.
7. To create opportunities for the OVC to better their lives via vocational training and income generating activities
8. To open a Bible Institute or College where local area Pastors can acquire more religious knowledge to better serve the constituency and grow more as socially responsible community members.
9. To build volunteer quarters to support the ministry via in-kind contributions of human capital for medical, education and religious purposes.
10. Lastly, the property needs a playground for the children to assist in their developmental processes and social learning.


Malindi Integrated Community (MIC) Project and Jabez Preparatory School & Home
Founded by: Helen Mwereru 2007
Location: Malindi, KENYA
Staff: 21

Vision for MIC Project – to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life for marginalized women, youth and children as to give them a better life and future.

Mission for Jabez Preparatory School – to equip the needy children with knowledge and the skills necessary for absorption into the job market so as to give them a chance to excel in life.

SITE INFORMATION: This area is characterized by extreme poverty, family strife (incest, land disputes, wife battering, etc.), deteriorating education due to overcrowding, not enough teachers and insufficient classroom space. The employment opportunities in this district are so slim that most people have been rendered “permanently jobless”. This is further compounded by the recent fires that destroyed over 250 villas (local accommodations for tourists), decreased industrial development and the failing economy that is adversely impacting farming and small scale businesses. Although Malindi is near the Indian Ocean the scarcity of accessible water in most parts of the district is a major hindrance to development and progress. The young female population is plagued by child prostitution which is common in a tourist area for survival as well as the youth have resorted to dubious ways of making a living i.e., drug peddling, begging from tourists, stealing etc. Industry is fueled in what is called the livelihood zones or areas accessible to water points i.e., namely fishing, san harvesting, forestry, tourism, and mixed farming. Due to limited employment vacancies women are forced to remain at home as housewives.

The MIC Project consists of 10 acres of thick-bush undeveloped flat land with no water. Currently, the Jabez Preparatory School & Home is located in a rented facility and will relocate to the MIC Project site when appropriate. Traditionally education is not affordable, however, in the government has declared primary school education free.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE:

1. To develop 10 acres of land to be used to alleviate spiritual depravation, poverty and suffering among vulnerable peoples, especially women and child-headed households.
2. Improve access to clean water and sanitation facilities.
3. Increase the number of students served in the Jabez Preparatory School and Home
4. Develop the feeding program to serve more OVC.
5. Build a Worship & Prayer Center that will serve to evangelize the lost, and bring reformation, faith and hope through the power of Jesus Christ to the community at-large.
6. Build a medical, maternal and child health center that include services for addiction, HIV/AIDS education, testing and treatment, basic medial care prevention and treatment, immunization, nutrition, and abstinence awareness.
7. Provide basic literacy programs for women.
8. Increase accessibility to technology.
9. Provide income generating opportunities through micro-enterprise development and training.

WISH LIST PRIORITIES and GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

Key to Level of Importance: + Vital to Progress ++Urgently Needed +++Critical to Sustaining Life

***TOP PRIORITIES*** +++ (In order of importance.)

ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE for 3-5 people from LAX/SAN/NY to Entebbe Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. August 1-15, 2009 – More detailed travel information is available upon request.
Alternative Giving Option for this Category:
 Purchase the round-trip ticket(s) on our behalf through your personal travel agent or company travel department.
 Host us on your personal jet or company plane and transport us to our designated project sites.
 Underwrite the cost for someone else to fly us to Uganda, Kenya and back to the United States.
 Donate frequent flyers miles.
Important Note: These tickets are critical to the overall success of this project.

FOOD SHORTAGE is the primary need for both Kenya and Uganda: Agape
Education Centre $8500, Jabez Preparatory School and Home $720. Total $9220

LifeVillage™ DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL Angel Investor or Philanthropist needed to
underwrite the development proposal. $20,000

2 WATER WELLS are desperately needed for Malindi in Aug./Sept.

COMPLETELY FUND THIS PROPOSAL
o Agape Community Ministries and Agape Education Centre $101,186
o MIC Project and Jabez Preparatory School & Home $54,200
o Harvest for Humanity International, Inc. $80,301
Total Proposal Budget: $234,687
Alternative Giving Options for this Category:
 Solicit your family, friends, relatives, co-workers, and/or church members to join you and make a group contribution within 7-14 days. Any amount would be welcomed.
 Make a monthly contribution that equals the Charter Contributor amount of $1000 by year-end.
 Host a phone-a-thon fundraiser on behalf of HHI within the next 30 days.
 Give a sacrificial offering/donation for the love of humanity and omit an upcoming vacation, personal indulgence, or frivolous purchase.

CHARTER CONTRIBUTOR Be a Leader and donate $1000 or more to help cover crisis/start-up costs?

SHARE THIS PROPOSAL with at least three people and/or someone specific
you know or love who can participate in some aspect of helping us reach our goal.

MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY
+Purchase and send communion elements (combination package of juice and wafers) to Africa in August. They rarely, if ever, get to participate in Communion because all available resources are directed toward day-to-day survival.

IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
++ OFFICE SPACE in Oceanside, California for 1-2 people with access to telephone, conference room, kitchen facilities, meeting room and restrooms.
++ GRAPHIC DESIGNER to create HHI logo, business cards, stationary, letterhead, envelopes and other collateral materials including presentation folders.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
+++ Leaders and team players who will selflessly help establish the departmental needs and objectives, recruit volunteers, create project timelines and budgets for one of the following areas of focus:
1) Administration, 2) Children: Orphan & Vulnerable, 3) Church/Religious, 4) Communications,
5) Construction, 6) Economic Development, 7) Education, 8) Financial, 9) Food, 10) Health/Medical,
11) Technology and 12) Transportation.
+++ Travel Coordinator to help coordinate travel arrangements for individuals and groups.
+++ Corporate Attorney for legal advice on a variety of administrative matters.
+ Prepare to travel with us on our next trip to Uganda and Kenya in early 2009 as a Volunteer Ambassador, Medical Professional.

ITEMS NEEDED
+++ 7 Laptop Computers Pentium 3 or 4 with CD/DVD drive, web camera, 3 or more GB, 15-17” screen + Microsoft office software.
+++ Mini-van (Uganda)
++ Company Car (CA/USA)
+ 3 Quick Books Pro Software Packages
+ PDF Software that allows us to create, change and send PDF files
+ (2) 6’ printed corporate banners
+ Bible story and biblical principal DVD’s that we can take to Africa in August.
+ Christian books to take to Africa.
+ Africa telephone calling calls to be sent to HHI $5 and $10 increments.
+ Office furniture once we get an office in Oceanside, California.
+ Publicity for Jessica Molina’s “I AM” Bracelets (See Attachment B)
HHI, CPES or any of its partners can not assure that these efforts will succeed in successfully finding funders, financers and service-providers that adequately support the LifeVillage™ projects for Uganda and Kenya. We can pledge to prayerfully do our best. We hope you will be a contributor that supports the possibility of LifeVillage™ to be realized in Uganda and Kenya. Thank you!

Vivian Johnson, President & Founder - Harvest for Humanity International, Inc.
Ambassador Richard N. Swett, FAIA, President Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, LLC
William Adelson, AIA, MBA, President of Envision Solar International

ATTACHMENT
Excerpt from the book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America” by Thomas L. Friedman – Chapter: Energy Poverty Page 154
How will we know when Africa as a continent stands a chance to climb sustainably out of poverty? My metric is very simple: it’s when I see Angelina Jolie posing next to a vast field of solar panels in Ghana or a wind farm crowded by turbines in Zimbabwe. In recent years, Jolie and other celebrities have done a great service by drawing attention to Africa’s Travails. IN highlighting the issues of poverty and disease, they have brought some much-needed global aid and debt relief. But there is one problem in Africa that almost never gets the spotlight, and that is Africa’s shortage of light. If you look at satellite pictures of the earth at night, it is quite stunning. Little lights flicker across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, while vast swaths of Africa are simply pitch-black.
AIDS relief has its champions, as do water purifications, forests preservation, malaria treatment, and the alleviation of poverty. But the problem of “energy poverty” has no champion. It’s not sexy; it has no international constituency, no buzz, no wristband, no human face. No one wants to embrace power plants, which are either dirty politically or just plain dirty. Worse, they take years to finance and build and you can’t see the results of your investment for a long time.
Energy, in fact, is Africa’s oldest orphan. But how, one wonders, will the ties of poverty, HIV/AIDS, unsafe drinking water, and malaria be turned back in Africa for good with out enough energy to turn on the lights? According to the World Bank, the Netherlands today produces as much electrical power annually as all of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa: 20 gigawatts. Every two weeks or so China adds as much power- 1 gigawatt of electricity- as the forty-seven countries of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, add every year.
But despite the staggering power gap, the problem of energy poverty rarely gets discussed. Universal access to electricity was not even one of the eight Millennium Development Goals that were set out by the UN and the world’s leading development institutions in 2000. Those goals range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, all by 2015. How are we going to eradicate poverty without eradication energy poverty?
I first heard the term “energy poverty” from Robert Freling, executive director of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF.org), which delivers solar power and wireless communications to rural and remote villages throughout the developing world. The right of every person to have access to energy is as fundamental as the right to access to air and water, Freling argues, “but it is often overlooked by very smart people, who are dedicated to solving the problems of development.”
It is hard to believe in this day and age, but the World Bank estimates that roughly 1.6 billion people- one out of every four people on the plant- don’t have regular access to an electricity grid. Every night is a blackout for 1.6 billion people. In sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, according to the World Bank, 75 percent of households, or 550 million people, have no access to network electricity. In South Asia- places like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh- 700 million people, 50 percent of the overall population and 90 percent of the rural population, are not on the grid. And under business-as-usual scenarios, the International Energy Agency projects that 1.4 billion people will still lack access to electricity in 2030.
Meanwhile, indoor air pollution caused by the smoke emitted from cooking over open fires with inefficient stoves and pots- the most common alternative to grid electricity- is responsible for 1.6 billion deaths per year, mostly of young children and mothers. The means that this biomass cooking as a cause of death ranks just behind malnutrition, unsafe sex, and lack of clean water and sanitation, according to the World Health Organization.
Why is there still so much energy poverty in the world? It has different causes in different regions. In some places, surging economic growth and population explosions have combined to overwhelm supply. In others, high oil and natural gas prices have forced poor countries to ration. In still others, prolonged droughts have crippled hydroelectric power.
But if there is one common denominator that cuts across all energy poor countries, it’s the simple fact that they don’t have functioning utilities that are able to raise financing on the scale needed to build and properly operate power plants and transmissions lines. And the reason is that these countries are plagued by either persistent misgovernance or persistent civil war- or both. The two are usually interrelated, particularly Africa. If a country doesn’t have a functioning government or a state of relative domestic peace that would enable it to enter in to the long-term planning, designing, financing, building, and operating of expensive power plants and transmissions grids- and they are all long-term projects- the lights will never come on or stay on for a very long or for very many people. And even in places where the government works and the society is stable, power projects often run aground because that government doesn’t allow the utility to operate as an independent commercial entity and charge the prices it requires to keep investing, or because it runs the utility in to honey pot of patronage or booty for political leaders. Much of the debt relief offered to Africa today is actually about forgiving loans made for power projects that were built but failed because of corruption or misrule.
Lawrence Musaba, the manager of the Southern Africa Power Pool, a twelve-nation consortium of electricity utilities at the continent’s tip, told the New York Times (July 29th, 2007): We’ve had no significant capital injection into generation and transmission, from either the private or public sectors, for 15, maybe 20 years.” My colleague Michael Wines, who wrote the story, also noted that in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, the government reported April 2007 that “only 19 of 79 power plants work… Daily electricity output has plunged 60 percent from its peak, and blackout cost the economy $1 billion a year, the Council for Renewable Energy in Nigeria says.”
Energy is like any other economic good. It needs decent governance, functioning institutions, and effective markets to get electrons from the producer to consumer on a sustained basis. Without reliable energy, at its most basic, is the capacity to do work.
“ At the village level,” Freling explained, “energy poverty means you can’t pump clean water regularly, there’s no communications, no way to have adult literacy classes, and certainly no way to run computers at school or have access to connectivity.” This perpetuates social inequality. “It is mostly the women in rural villages that bear the greatest burden of energy poverty, (because) it is they who must walk for miles every day to fetch water for drinking and bathing or to collect firewood. Young girls are often taken out of primary school to assist in the daily struggle for energy subsistence.”
IN addition, said Freling, because women in Africa villages are generally responsible for cooking family meals, they are the ones most seriously affected by indoor air pollution, which is caused by kerosene lamps and open fires in poorly ventilated kitchens. Teenage girls in many African countries will not go to school when they are menstruating if the school has no clean water, which usually requires some form of electric power to produce.
Energy use and gross national product are very closely correlated. Factories that don’t have gird power have to rely on backup generators, which are usually more expensive to run and more pollution. According to the World Bank, African manufacturing enterprises report an average of fifty-six days of power outages per year, causing firms to lose 5 to 6 percent of sales revenues- and for the informal/underground economy, such loses could be up to 20 percent revenues each year. In Bangladesh, a World Bank study recently found that having access to electricity has a cumulative impact on increasing rural household incomes by as much as 20 percent- resulting in a corresponding drop in the poverty rate of about 15 percent. Another World Bank study quotes surveys in Bangladesh as finding that study time for schoolchildren is up to 33 percent higher for those whose homes have electricity.
To put it another way: Every problem of the developing world is an energy problem. The problem of education is about a teacher shortage- and an energy shortage. The problem of health care in sub-Saharan Africa is about a shortage of doctors and medicines- and a shortage of energy to run medical equipment and refrigerate drugs. Unemployment in rural India is about a skills shortage, and investment shortage- and a shortage of the energy needed to keep factories running. Agricultural weakness in Bangladesh is about shortages of seeds, fertilizer, and land- and a shortage of energy to pump water or power equipment.
“Energy poverty”- concluded Freling, “creeps in to every single aspect of existence and wipes out any hope of climbing out of (economic) poverty into the twenty-first century.”
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I AM Bracelets™

Jessica Molina Designs
I AM Bracelets™
Especially for the hundreds of orphan and vulnerable children in the
Village of Mateete in Uganda and Kenya that we will be visiting in August.
The I AM Bracelets™ represent the endless amount of courageous words that will build their self-esteem and confidence. Jessica wants the children to feel empowered and know they are important, loved, smart, etc.. These bracelets are a sign from her that someone does care, that they are worth something, and that they can be whatever they want to be. It is important to her that these children do not go unnoticed, so please help us in this effort to empower these young minds and encourage their hearts.
Min. $25 DONATION
1 Donation, 2 Bracelets Go 2 Africa
Bracelets Purchased For Personal Use: Donation of $25 Child / $30 Adult
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