Our Plan
As mentioned on our home page, The Food and Agriculture Organization along with the World Bank released a publication in 2009 titled 'Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant - Agriculture'. In it is outlined the potential of the area known as the Guinea Savannah Zone. The zone comprises the majority of sub-saharan Africa and details how this area has the potential to be a major area of production of agricultural products and services and includes many aspects of how these developments could, if the right steps were taken, and the proper precautions observed, play a significant role in providing agricultural based supports into the needs of the year 2050 and beyond. Projections by qualified organizations estimate the population on the planet to be 9.6 Billion persons by the year 2050 and we are addressing issues that if properly maintained could help these projections become a reality.
The vast agricultural potential of Africa was studied and published in a report called, 'Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant - Agriculture' put out in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank.
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The resources and fundamental business practices necessary to realize Africa's full potential is at our disposal, and can be used to benefit the world.
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The Development Project Background-The ECOWAS Project
For more than four Hundred Years Africans were taken against their will as slaves to faraway lands. Although this was often done at the behest of their own people or by different tribes, the damaging results are the same. The illegal slave trade left Africa without their strongest backs and the brightest minds. Centuries of this activity has resulted in rundown conditions, extreme poverty, and insufficient infrastructure for social advancement, though the technologies exist for good. It is our purpose to correct his situation, and within these pages one can find ways to do exactly that.
There are the conditions we intend to resolve for the betterment of the ECOWAS Region (The Economic Community of West African States Region) and the Central Region of Africa, as well as the Eastern and Southern Regions for us and our our posterity. We believe Africa’s development is paramount for the world at large.
Ghana is the most socially and governmental advanced region of West Africa. It is predominantly English speaking after being under British rule until 1957. Ghana has evolved into a state of stability and governmental adaptation paramount to other African nations, and has privatized most of its business functions to encourage foreign investment and trade. We believe Ghana is the perfect place to start our development initiatives.
There are the conditions we intend to resolve for the betterment of the ECOWAS Region (The Economic Community of West African States Region) and the Central Region of Africa, as well as the Eastern and Southern Regions for us and our our posterity. We believe Africa’s development is paramount for the world at large.
Ghana is the most socially and governmental advanced region of West Africa. It is predominantly English speaking after being under British rule until 1957. Ghana has evolved into a state of stability and governmental adaptation paramount to other African nations, and has privatized most of its business functions to encourage foreign investment and trade. We believe Ghana is the perfect place to start our development initiatives.
Agricultural Project Proposal
Introduction
Ghana’s potential for agricultural production is immense and we believe that this potential is not being realized. The eastern region of Ghana, which is the primary region for agricultural production because of its environment and soil characteristics, we believe, will be highly supportive of various crop productions on a commercial scale. There are also plans for similar projects in the western and northern regions of Ghana.
Government Departments involved
Our Participation
Requirements from Local Government Authorities
Members of the project management team have been in Ghana acquiring this information and documentation.
The Project
The Project will begin with the harvesting of gold and other precious minerals from abandoned mines that were mined using primitive technologies. This means that as much as 60% of the precious minerals have been abandoned and neglected and mines that have been laying waste can be harvested and the land reclaimed for other purposes using our process. This will be an ongoing process and will provide much of the capital necessary for the other developmental stages of the Project and our Business Plans. The funds necessary for start up of the project will support this phase fully and will be repaid from the proceeds, re-evaluation of the projections will be completed after the first year and any adjustment in the proposal will be made at that time.
Funding Requirements
At this time we are in the Start-up Phase. Sufficient data and the preliminary research have been done to support the project phases that will follow. We fully intend to begin operations as soon as the funding is in place. The mining operations that have been offered for implementation by our research and development partners has indicated to us that funds will be available to service the debt as soon as the facilities are in place to properly test and produce the process for identifying valuable resources available from previously mined areas. These resources will be moved into the banking system using the Kimberly Process and refineries that are ready to receive the product for hallmarking. For this phase 5,000,000 USD will be required. This will cover the Research and Development deployment into the region, and provide the costs of the equipment to begin mining operations. This influx will be repaid within two years of beginning operations and the extended and expanded mining operations themselves will cover the costs of the development plan and capital requirements for additional phases. The additional Phases of this project are agricultural in nature and will help to fulfill the millennium challenge goals outlined by entities concerned with this region.
Our Projections involve the production of:
Ghana’s potential for agricultural production is immense and we believe that this potential is not being realized. The eastern region of Ghana, which is the primary region for agricultural production because of its environment and soil characteristics, we believe, will be highly supportive of various crop productions on a commercial scale. There are also plans for similar projects in the western and northern regions of Ghana.
Government Departments involved
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Water Resources, Works, and Housing
- Local district assembly-Agricultural Officers
Our Participation
- Research and Development of viable processes
- Implementation of approved processes for training and development
- Management and Supervision of Implemented plans until they are completed or purchased
Requirements from Local Government Authorities
- Documentation, information and consultation regarding procedures, processes and regulations necessary to start and complete projects.
- Project endorsement by traditional ruling parties
Members of the project management team have been in Ghana acquiring this information and documentation.
The Project
The Project will begin with the harvesting of gold and other precious minerals from abandoned mines that were mined using primitive technologies. This means that as much as 60% of the precious minerals have been abandoned and neglected and mines that have been laying waste can be harvested and the land reclaimed for other purposes using our process. This will be an ongoing process and will provide much of the capital necessary for the other developmental stages of the Project and our Business Plans. The funds necessary for start up of the project will support this phase fully and will be repaid from the proceeds, re-evaluation of the projections will be completed after the first year and any adjustment in the proposal will be made at that time.
Funding Requirements
At this time we are in the Start-up Phase. Sufficient data and the preliminary research have been done to support the project phases that will follow. We fully intend to begin operations as soon as the funding is in place. The mining operations that have been offered for implementation by our research and development partners has indicated to us that funds will be available to service the debt as soon as the facilities are in place to properly test and produce the process for identifying valuable resources available from previously mined areas. These resources will be moved into the banking system using the Kimberly Process and refineries that are ready to receive the product for hallmarking. For this phase 5,000,000 USD will be required. This will cover the Research and Development deployment into the region, and provide the costs of the equipment to begin mining operations. This influx will be repaid within two years of beginning operations and the extended and expanded mining operations themselves will cover the costs of the development plan and capital requirements for additional phases. The additional Phases of this project are agricultural in nature and will help to fulfill the millennium challenge goals outlined by entities concerned with this region.
Our Projections involve the production of:
- Development of Secure Processing and Transportation of Resources
- Oil Palm Processing (Hybrid Tenera)
- Mangifera indica (mango) Processing
- Algae Bio-Oil Production & Refining
- Traditional Farming (Corn. Maize, Rice, Cotton, Cassava, and Soybeans) Production
- Infrastructure Demands and necessary supporting training facilities
Some chiefs display a Hybrid Tenera tree in a Oil Palm Grove in Ghana - (Notice all the dead fruit from years past left unprocessed)
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This is a bi-section of the Oil palm fruit showing the mesocarp and the nut
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Oil Palm Processing
This involves the planting, harvesting and processing of Oil Palm trees currently being mass produced in tropical forests in Ghana, and the processing of the Palm Nut to extract its oil for pharmaceutical, medical, industrial and domestic uses.
The Oil Palm tree is a native of tropical West Africa where wild types exists in the lowland forest areas. The hybrid Tenera tree was developed in the 60’s through Malaysian interests and was introduced to West Africa. Although the main centre of origin of the oil palm was West Africa, it has become widely distributed in the tropical zones of South America, Indonesia, Malaysia, and many parts South East Asia. It grows well between latitudes 13 degrees north and 12 degrees south of the equator. In West Africa the main oil palm belt runs through the southern latitudes of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon. The equator itself runs through the heart of Tema, Ghana.
Types of Oil Palm Available: 3 Varieties
The Tenera variety has been chosen for our project because this variety is most suitable for commercial production. Also the Oil Palm Production Board of Ghana has focused on the mass production and implementing of large scale farms for the preceding years. The resulting opportunity will provide the accumulation of several production processes readily availing fresh fruit bunches by the time we get our processing facilities in place. This will be further outlined in our financial section.
The Oil Palm tree is a native of tropical West Africa where wild types exists in the lowland forest areas. The hybrid Tenera tree was developed in the 60’s through Malaysian interests and was introduced to West Africa. Although the main centre of origin of the oil palm was West Africa, it has become widely distributed in the tropical zones of South America, Indonesia, Malaysia, and many parts South East Asia. It grows well between latitudes 13 degrees north and 12 degrees south of the equator. In West Africa the main oil palm belt runs through the southern latitudes of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon. The equator itself runs through the heart of Tema, Ghana.
Types of Oil Palm Available: 3 Varieties
- Dura
- Pisifera
- Tenera is a Hybrid of both the previous varieties
The Tenera variety has been chosen for our project because this variety is most suitable for commercial production. Also the Oil Palm Production Board of Ghana has focused on the mass production and implementing of large scale farms for the preceding years. The resulting opportunity will provide the accumulation of several production processes readily availing fresh fruit bunches by the time we get our processing facilities in place. This will be further outlined in our financial section.
Traditional Mango Processing
Mangoes are currently processed at two stages of maturity. Green fruit is used to make chutney, pickles, curries and dehydrated products. The green fruit should be freshly picked from the tree. Fruit that is bruised, damaged, or that has prematurely fallen to the ground previously could not be used. Ripe mangoes are processed as canned and frozen slices, purée, juices, nectar and various dried products. Mangoes are processed into many other products for home use and by cottage industry.
Mango processing presents many problems as far as industrialization and market expansion is concerned. The trees are alternate bearing and the fruit has a short storage life; these factors make it difficult to process the crop in a continuous and regular way. The large number of varieties with their various attributes and deficiencies affects the quality and uniformity of processed products. The lack of simple, reliable methods for determining the stage of maturity of varieties for processing also affects the quality of the finished products. Many of the processed products require peeled or peeled and sliced fruit. The lack of mechanized equipment for the peeling of ripe mangoes is a serious bottleneck for increasing the production of these products. All of these hurdles give our project increase validity because the hurdles previously precluded the uses of a readily available source of income for the region.
Mango Processing Proposed
We propose using the mango for energy as well as for food. As you can tell in the pictures below, mangoes grow well, thriving in the tropical environment in Ghana and as far north as Mali in Sub-Saharan West Africa.
Mango processing presents many problems as far as industrialization and market expansion is concerned. The trees are alternate bearing and the fruit has a short storage life; these factors make it difficult to process the crop in a continuous and regular way. The large number of varieties with their various attributes and deficiencies affects the quality and uniformity of processed products. The lack of simple, reliable methods for determining the stage of maturity of varieties for processing also affects the quality of the finished products. Many of the processed products require peeled or peeled and sliced fruit. The lack of mechanized equipment for the peeling of ripe mangoes is a serious bottleneck for increasing the production of these products. All of these hurdles give our project increase validity because the hurdles previously precluded the uses of a readily available source of income for the region.
Mango Processing Proposed
We propose using the mango for energy as well as for food. As you can tell in the pictures below, mangoes grow well, thriving in the tropical environment in Ghana and as far north as Mali in Sub-Saharan West Africa.
Fresh Mango Fruit on the trees
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Every year is left to rotten on the ground
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Most of the valuable fruit falls to the ground and rots year after year, adding to the world’s environmental concerns. We propose using the fruit to make ethanol and using the nut to make bio-diesel, encouraging economic viability and helping in alleviating global warming (climate change) in the process. And this can be done with fruit that has fallen prematurely or even over-ripe fruit.
FUTURE ENERGY: Bio-fuels from the sunlight; Algae-to-fuel technology promising, but challenges exist when going from the lab to the field. Algae-to-fuel technology suggests significant environmental impacts from algae-based biofuel. It will produce less greenhouse gas in its life-cycle, that it uses less land, that it can be grown anywhere — bypassing the concerns about competition with food crops that have come to plague corn ethanol. The issues may be high temperature, water and fertilizer. A lot more understudy is needed to improve the technology.
FUTURE ENERGY: Bio-fuels from the sunlight; Algae-to-fuel technology promising, but challenges exist when going from the lab to the field. Algae-to-fuel technology suggests significant environmental impacts from algae-based biofuel. It will produce less greenhouse gas in its life-cycle, that it uses less land, that it can be grown anywhere — bypassing the concerns about competition with food crops that have come to plague corn ethanol. The issues may be high temperature, water and fertilizer. A lot more understudy is needed to improve the technology.
The graph above describes the energy generating process of algae
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Open Pond Algae Production and Processing
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Different Types of Algae Production can be utilized in this project
Photo Bioreactors
This type of technology implements a closed system that introduces carbon dioxide to the algae to enhance its growth in the presence of light, water and nutrients. The rapidly growing algae are continuously removed from the system. The technology first rolled-out at MIT and in the following 18-24 months several pre-commercial pilot projects were to follow.
Solar Collection Process
In this type of process solar collectors are used to concentrate sunlight. The system then pipes the light into a closed chamber and distributes it over glow plates with a large surface area enriched with CO2 from a nearby power plant. Between the glow plates are growth media, over which water and a nutrient solution flow, and algae grow. When the algae are ready to harvest, an increase in water pressure separates them from the growth media for collection.
Photo Bioreactor Process
Solix Biofuel in Fort Collins, Colorado has partnered with Colorado State University to develop an alternative bioreactor. While most of the other set-ups take CO2 from power plants, the Solix demonstration site sits adjacent to a brewery where the fermentation process yields enough CO2 to feed the algae. Long, narrow tanks sealed with plastic sheeting contain algae, water, nutrients, and CO2 that are pumped in from the nearby brewery. In order to ensure that the algae have sufficient light, a roller passes back and forth over the tank to mix the contents.
Open Pond Process
The other common method to cultivate algae uses an open pond design. Open ponds, such as Aquaflow Bionomic's in New Zealand, use carbon and nutrient rich effluent streams from waste water treatment plants to grow their algae. Unlike the closed photo bioreactor, enough carbon is present in the effluent stream that additional CO2 doesn't need to be added. While currently under development, Aquaflow hopes that the process will sufficiently filter the wastewater for re-use in other applications like irrigation.
Algae production has potential
Whatever method or methods ultimately prove most efficient, Narsi Santhanam of oilgae.com believes that the key to a successful algae industry lies in finding optimal algae strains, proper technologies for growth/culturing, and efficient oil extraction. Cary Bullock of GreenFuel understands the necessity to lower current production costs to be competitive in the larger market, and sees bountiful opportunities to cut costs by harnessing carbon and heat from manufacturing facilities and power plants
Our Advantage in Algae Field
Our research and development partners, who are always on the cutting edge of new technologies, have indicated to us that we will have available a cost cutting technology that will eliminate many of the concerns mentioned above. We will have available a new strain of algae that will literally eat until it explodes releasing the oil it produces without the harvesting step usually incurred. This will significantly reduce the costs while increasing the production of harness able energy. The resulting residue and ‘WASTE’ can be used to feed livestock.
This type of technology implements a closed system that introduces carbon dioxide to the algae to enhance its growth in the presence of light, water and nutrients. The rapidly growing algae are continuously removed from the system. The technology first rolled-out at MIT and in the following 18-24 months several pre-commercial pilot projects were to follow.
Solar Collection Process
In this type of process solar collectors are used to concentrate sunlight. The system then pipes the light into a closed chamber and distributes it over glow plates with a large surface area enriched with CO2 from a nearby power plant. Between the glow plates are growth media, over which water and a nutrient solution flow, and algae grow. When the algae are ready to harvest, an increase in water pressure separates them from the growth media for collection.
Photo Bioreactor Process
Solix Biofuel in Fort Collins, Colorado has partnered with Colorado State University to develop an alternative bioreactor. While most of the other set-ups take CO2 from power plants, the Solix demonstration site sits adjacent to a brewery where the fermentation process yields enough CO2 to feed the algae. Long, narrow tanks sealed with plastic sheeting contain algae, water, nutrients, and CO2 that are pumped in from the nearby brewery. In order to ensure that the algae have sufficient light, a roller passes back and forth over the tank to mix the contents.
Open Pond Process
The other common method to cultivate algae uses an open pond design. Open ponds, such as Aquaflow Bionomic's in New Zealand, use carbon and nutrient rich effluent streams from waste water treatment plants to grow their algae. Unlike the closed photo bioreactor, enough carbon is present in the effluent stream that additional CO2 doesn't need to be added. While currently under development, Aquaflow hopes that the process will sufficiently filter the wastewater for re-use in other applications like irrigation.
Algae production has potential
Whatever method or methods ultimately prove most efficient, Narsi Santhanam of oilgae.com believes that the key to a successful algae industry lies in finding optimal algae strains, proper technologies for growth/culturing, and efficient oil extraction. Cary Bullock of GreenFuel understands the necessity to lower current production costs to be competitive in the larger market, and sees bountiful opportunities to cut costs by harnessing carbon and heat from manufacturing facilities and power plants
Our Advantage in Algae Field
Our research and development partners, who are always on the cutting edge of new technologies, have indicated to us that we will have available a cost cutting technology that will eliminate many of the concerns mentioned above. We will have available a new strain of algae that will literally eat until it explodes releasing the oil it produces without the harvesting step usually incurred. This will significantly reduce the costs while increasing the production of harness able energy. The resulting residue and ‘WASTE’ can be used to feed livestock.
Answering the Agricultural Concerns which have plagued those trying to improve the region for decades -
Our Proposal
Our Proposal
Picture: http://www.icpdas.com/en/solution/Smart__Farming
Utilizing modern technologies and advancements in farming available from the USA and Europe, we intend to transform the landscape of the African continent from vast wastelands to productivity.
Traditional and Customary Farming
Vast amounts of square hectares lay dormant in all states of the ECOWAS. This land is very fertile and is under the control of the traditional families who have the land through their ancestors. The government(s) has not been able to provide guidance and resources to the people for the agricultural development and have, in the case of Ghana, opened the areas up to privatization to encourage the influx of investment dollars and modern technology into the regions. Here in lies our unique opportunity. Because the land is virgin and large scale application of chemical based fertilizers and pesticides have not been introduced, we could encourage the production of organic grains and produce from these lands. Helping to alleviate hunger by encouraging economic use of the land rather than offering a hand out to the people will also assist Millennium Challenge Authorities meet their projections.
Implementing Cooperative Farming
Because the protection of the invested capital and the return on investment is so crucial, we believe the Co-operative business model that has proven extremely successful in industrialized countries is imperative. A co-operative is a commercial body built upon the business structure which is both accountable and durable. We intend to promote the implementation of cooperatives upon a predetermined scale to interject the investment(s) into a practical and document-able system. This process will encourage the training of the local human resource, provide for the safe and efficient use of the modern equipment presented to the region, provide a unified voice to the local farmer no matter the scale of their individual operation, and provide support for the exposure of the products produced to the international market to ensure best rate of return. And all this will be accomplished in a repeatable and easily update-able fashion throughout the region, an example answering many proposed problems.
Products that can be produced through Agriculture Activities
Through our projected business model, many agricultural products can be produced, processed, packaged, and distributed. All will be done through the co-operative models we have proposed and the investment and return recaptured with minimal risk to the investor. Agreements situated and secured before the investment ever is introduced will be provided between the Governments in power, the traditional land owners, and the investing public. These safeguards can and will be insured through international entities such as the Export/Import Bank. This will insure the investments against anything from social uprising(s) to government coupe(s). In the unlikely event of such an occurrence since it is believed that such uprisings are not simply cultural but a direct result of the living conditions we intend to effect.
Some of these productions will include ideas such as the following:
Answering the Demand for Infrastructure
How do we provide Infrastructure? And more importantly, how do we pay for it? Two Questions that have been confronted many times without resolve, but also one that we intend to promote and resolve during the course of this presentation, and at the hopeful conclusion, to address it as such once and for all. Ironically the answer lies in the same condition as the question answered heretofore. The answer is in the land itself, lying waste along with the lives of the people that own it.
Modern technology, in the case of our research and development partners, has evolved into processes that will no longer destroy land and lives in the process, but in fact preserve life and a non-renewable resource often overlooked; real estate. Our R & D partners have indicated to us that they have proprietary applications that can access previously mined and discarded real estate, produce as much as 60% of precious minerals taken the first time, and perhaps even more diverse precious minerals never perceived and in tremendous demand throughout the industrialized world. We intend to utilize this process from an accounting standpoint to involve the traditional owners of this property in the renovation of their areas, as well as the agricultural regions through potential monetary gain. This will provide the infrastructure necessary for the modernization of the neglected regions using modern methods and pay for them with natural resources available to the neglected tribes, and produce land reclamation in the process. All of this will be done in a locally recognized manner termed Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT).
Vast amounts of square hectares lay dormant in all states of the ECOWAS. This land is very fertile and is under the control of the traditional families who have the land through their ancestors. The government(s) has not been able to provide guidance and resources to the people for the agricultural development and have, in the case of Ghana, opened the areas up to privatization to encourage the influx of investment dollars and modern technology into the regions. Here in lies our unique opportunity. Because the land is virgin and large scale application of chemical based fertilizers and pesticides have not been introduced, we could encourage the production of organic grains and produce from these lands. Helping to alleviate hunger by encouraging economic use of the land rather than offering a hand out to the people will also assist Millennium Challenge Authorities meet their projections.
Implementing Cooperative Farming
Because the protection of the invested capital and the return on investment is so crucial, we believe the Co-operative business model that has proven extremely successful in industrialized countries is imperative. A co-operative is a commercial body built upon the business structure which is both accountable and durable. We intend to promote the implementation of cooperatives upon a predetermined scale to interject the investment(s) into a practical and document-able system. This process will encourage the training of the local human resource, provide for the safe and efficient use of the modern equipment presented to the region, provide a unified voice to the local farmer no matter the scale of their individual operation, and provide support for the exposure of the products produced to the international market to ensure best rate of return. And all this will be accomplished in a repeatable and easily update-able fashion throughout the region, an example answering many proposed problems.
Products that can be produced through Agriculture Activities
Through our projected business model, many agricultural products can be produced, processed, packaged, and distributed. All will be done through the co-operative models we have proposed and the investment and return recaptured with minimal risk to the investor. Agreements situated and secured before the investment ever is introduced will be provided between the Governments in power, the traditional land owners, and the investing public. These safeguards can and will be insured through international entities such as the Export/Import Bank. This will insure the investments against anything from social uprising(s) to government coupe(s). In the unlikely event of such an occurrence since it is believed that such uprisings are not simply cultural but a direct result of the living conditions we intend to effect.
Some of these productions will include ideas such as the following:
- Corn grown and refined into staple products used every day in the industrialized world will be refined and packaged on site using the cooperative system. Also others such as:
- Maize, rice, cotton, soybeans, Castor
- Cassava, potatoes, sugar beets, plantain, banana
- Groundnuts, cashews, almonds, coffee, cocoa, sun flowers, etc., etc., etc...
Answering the Demand for Infrastructure
How do we provide Infrastructure? And more importantly, how do we pay for it? Two Questions that have been confronted many times without resolve, but also one that we intend to promote and resolve during the course of this presentation, and at the hopeful conclusion, to address it as such once and for all. Ironically the answer lies in the same condition as the question answered heretofore. The answer is in the land itself, lying waste along with the lives of the people that own it.
Modern technology, in the case of our research and development partners, has evolved into processes that will no longer destroy land and lives in the process, but in fact preserve life and a non-renewable resource often overlooked; real estate. Our R & D partners have indicated to us that they have proprietary applications that can access previously mined and discarded real estate, produce as much as 60% of precious minerals taken the first time, and perhaps even more diverse precious minerals never perceived and in tremendous demand throughout the industrialized world. We intend to utilize this process from an accounting standpoint to involve the traditional owners of this property in the renovation of their areas, as well as the agricultural regions through potential monetary gain. This will provide the infrastructure necessary for the modernization of the neglected regions using modern methods and pay for them with natural resources available to the neglected tribes, and produce land reclamation in the process. All of this will be done in a locally recognized manner termed Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT).
Photo: Ghana Daily Graphic
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The Bonte gold mine in the Ashanti Region: falling gold prices were reducing export earnings in previous years.
Gold is once again Ghana's biggest export in nominal terms, surpassing cocoa. But this revival also emphasizes how little Ghana's basic economic structure has changed since the turn of the century when these raw materials became the main exports. A major reason for the revival is the institutional and regulatory framework introduced since 1984 as part of the export-led growth strategy. Key elements were the setting up of the Minerals Commission in 1984 and the promulgation of a new Minerals and Mining Law which provided generous capital allowances and other incentives. These improved conditions attracted more new investment (totaling $1.6 billion US in 1983-94) than in any other sector, and most of it went into gold mining. |
Infrastructure Technology and Resource Management
How do we go in to the powerless regions of West Africa, build modern roads and bridges, tunnels and railroads trestles, provide engineering products and everything that is necessary and pay for it all? Good question and we think we have the answer. The same concept for BOT that we described in the previous section is applicable here. We can go in using nominal start-up capital, and produce the resources for the renovation of the region, update it with modern highways, overpasses, tunnels and access roads through the BOT method. By gaining the rights to the thoroughfares we can build toll roads that will be used only by paying travelers and account for every penny we have invested or controlled until a buyer comes along. We can then recoup the full investment plus any gain we deem viable. At which time we leave the area more beneficial to the inhabitants and hopefully do the same thing somewhere else in the world until we have accomplished our agreed upon goals.
One of the big concerns for the successful operation of our development initiative is the infrastructure of the countries we plan to effect. Some of those concerns are to be mentioned here, and as is our model so is the solution to the problem. Once we have identified a region that we would like to develop using our Appropriate Technology, we will institute the following products and processes to relieve concerns.
One of the big concerns for the successful operation of our development initiative is the infrastructure of the countries we plan to effect. Some of those concerns are to be mentioned here, and as is our model so is the solution to the problem. Once we have identified a region that we would like to develop using our Appropriate Technology, we will institute the following products and processes to relieve concerns.
- The bad conditions of roads and lack of bridges, overpasses over low lying areas, and just generally bad driving conditions for all motorists. The Solution:
High specification concrete batching system - We have access to a proprietary system that produces high specification concrete at the job site utilizing computer-operated precision and the technology is totally self-contained. What this means is that we can build infrastructure on site that can stand years, decades, perhaps even centuries without replacement, safely, and efficiently.
We will work with the governments in the areas where our technologies will be introduced to develop roads, bridges and overpasses using the proprietary concrete batching systems provided by our development partners. Through these technologies we have exclusive rights to their remarkable system throughout the ECOWAS, and it is revolutionary.
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Utilizing this technology in the vast undeveloped regions of Ghana and other ECOWAS Countries will mean infrastructure that can stand the test of time can be built on the spot transforming the areas into modern transportation thoroughfares, farm to market connectors, toll roads and other applications.
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Addressing the issue of unsafe and unsanitary Housing in the rural areas of Africa?
The unsafe housing and sanitary conditions in the region are not feasible for human existence. Our system of Research and Development will provide intense and localized development of safe and sanitary housing and will allow us to assist our local partners to pay for the development as they receive their portion of the proceeds of the operation. Systems such as Insulated Concrete Form construction will be available and affordable in Africa once we are manufacturing our own cement, and mixing the concrete on the job site.
The unsafe housing and sanitary conditions in the region are not feasible for human existence. Our system of Research and Development will provide intense and localized development of safe and sanitary housing and will allow us to assist our local partners to pay for the development as they receive their portion of the proceeds of the operation. Systems such as Insulated Concrete Form construction will be available and affordable in Africa once we are manufacturing our own cement, and mixing the concrete on the job site.
Replaceable Forms will reduce construction costs
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Training local work forces creates jobs
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The Finished product will revolutionize the region
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Installed with the sanitary solution –‘the waterless toilet’ system will be key institutions. Pictured right is the "waterless toilet', an invention being sold and widely marketed in Africa. We have the rights to the waterless toilet and other sanitary products in the region, which will make us the green friendly, energy and resource conscientious leaders in the industry and the region. This waterless, chemical free, environmentally friendly sanitation aid is just the thing for the developing region. And we will manufacture the toilet and the installation will more than likely extend well beyond our project adding to the companies’ bottom line tremendously in my opinion.
How does it work: Human feces is 95% moisture by weight, and the environmentally harmful qualities live off the moisture. When feces is presented in an atmosphere that dehydrates it, the smell and the bacteria depart leaving dry, odorless, waste or compost, which can be disposed in several ways and is basically bio-digestible waste. As shown in the picture, the toilet looks as any other toilet when placed, but it has a round cylindrical drum with screw type conveyors assembled inside the shell. A person would use the toilet as normal, but the waste falls inside the drum rather than in water, and the drum is rotated manually every time the lid is lifted, this tumbling effect is enhanced by air that is drawn from the drum by an exhaust fan at the top of the pipe pictured here. The resulting dry air induced atmosphere the waste is subjected to, dehydrates the waste and a collection bag at the rear of the toilet collects the waste for disposal.
How does it work: Human feces is 95% moisture by weight, and the environmentally harmful qualities live off the moisture. When feces is presented in an atmosphere that dehydrates it, the smell and the bacteria depart leaving dry, odorless, waste or compost, which can be disposed in several ways and is basically bio-digestible waste. As shown in the picture, the toilet looks as any other toilet when placed, but it has a round cylindrical drum with screw type conveyors assembled inside the shell. A person would use the toilet as normal, but the waste falls inside the drum rather than in water, and the drum is rotated manually every time the lid is lifted, this tumbling effect is enhanced by air that is drawn from the drum by an exhaust fan at the top of the pipe pictured here. The resulting dry air induced atmosphere the waste is subjected to, dehydrates the waste and a collection bag at the rear of the toilet collects the waste for disposal.
The production facilities we will be putting in place during the alternative energy production/ economic development of rural areas of West Africa phase will provide electricity and clean drinking water as a by-product of production. And because the facilities are chemical based facilities, the additional incentive is environmentally friendly as well.
Approaches to the Cost Factors involved Initial Phase (Start-up Cost) Summary
Our Appearances
As I am sure you are aware of, this project can be extremely costly, and in most cases would not be attempted. But we have only indicated the different aspects involved because they are badly needed and they are alternative energy friendly answers to many problems. We also believe that we can achieve each and every measure we have mentioned over the course of time should we put our minds to it.
Our Requests for Investor Participation
As we have mentioned, we believe the systemic root of our development potential will lend adage to the customary roots of invention. The fact that we can bring cultures and communities, individuals and organizations together to achieve a common goal is our anticipation factor. We believe the fact that we can offer monetary gain for participation in the resolution of common problems faced everyday by all participants is a plus in achieving those goals. Therefore we believe we can achieve the desired affect with nominal investment and are therefore willing to entertain all offers. This is also the basis for our title, Help Africa Help America™.
This is only the preliminary plan, we have to produce a formal development plan once our funding is in place. Our business plan is to procure joint venture partners to help us achieve the lasting results we desire. Please inquire for additional participation, donations are accepted via Paypal to pjtr@glagd.com or CashApp to $GADMT.
Thank You,
:Perkins-Junior;, Thelton-Ray, Dey. - Founder and Protector of Trust
785h King George Blvd, Suite D-4
Savannah, GA 31419
Phone: (229) 545-5538 or Fax: (916) 361-7392
info@hafham.com or pjtr@glagd.com
Approaches to the Cost Factors involved Initial Phase (Start-up Cost) Summary
Our Appearances
As I am sure you are aware of, this project can be extremely costly, and in most cases would not be attempted. But we have only indicated the different aspects involved because they are badly needed and they are alternative energy friendly answers to many problems. We also believe that we can achieve each and every measure we have mentioned over the course of time should we put our minds to it.
Our Requests for Investor Participation
As we have mentioned, we believe the systemic root of our development potential will lend adage to the customary roots of invention. The fact that we can bring cultures and communities, individuals and organizations together to achieve a common goal is our anticipation factor. We believe the fact that we can offer monetary gain for participation in the resolution of common problems faced everyday by all participants is a plus in achieving those goals. Therefore we believe we can achieve the desired affect with nominal investment and are therefore willing to entertain all offers. This is also the basis for our title, Help Africa Help America™.
This is only the preliminary plan, we have to produce a formal development plan once our funding is in place. Our business plan is to procure joint venture partners to help us achieve the lasting results we desire. Please inquire for additional participation, donations are accepted via Paypal to pjtr@glagd.com or CashApp to $GADMT.
Thank You,
:Perkins-Junior;, Thelton-Ray, Dey. - Founder and Protector of Trust
785h King George Blvd, Suite D-4
Savannah, GA 31419
Phone: (229) 545-5538 or Fax: (916) 361-7392
info@hafham.com or pjtr@glagd.com