The Guardian Project (TGP) Is Expanding...
You're already familiar with
THE SHIT STARTS HERE - an agricultural micro-finance, focusing on composting animal manure into organic fertilizer, where the currency is sheep/goats, the loan is interest free, and a pay-forward component ensures the longevity of the initiative as well as our redundancy in any one area.
Well, TGP (The Guardian Project) expanded it's portfolio, beginning in D.R.Congo to include
THE BUCK STARTS HERE - a micro-finance initiative where money is lent at cost of capital only (no interest rate profit) to facilitate business opportunities.
You're already familiar with
THE SHIT STARTS HERE - an agricultural micro-finance, focusing on composting animal manure into organic fertilizer, where the currency is sheep/goats, the loan is interest free, and a pay-forward component ensures the longevity of the initiative as well as our redundancy in any one area.
Well, TGP (The Guardian Project) expanded it's portfolio, beginning in D.R.Congo to include
THE BUCK STARTS HERE - a micro-finance initiative where money is lent at cost of capital only (no interest rate profit) to facilitate business opportunities.
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| Working out the details for The Buck Starts Here's first micro-loan. |
And beginning in Uganda and already in Rwanda as well,
THE SEEDS START HERE - an agricultural micro-finance initiative, where the currency is seeds, and the lender pays back not only initial loan but also a percentage of seeds generated from crop yield, ensuring exponential loans as well as our redundancy in any one area.
THE SEEDS START HERE - an agricultural micro-finance initiative, where the currency is seeds, and the lender pays back not only initial loan but also a percentage of seeds generated from crop yield, ensuring exponential loans as well as our redundancy in any one area.
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| saplings will be nurtured with nutrient-rich organic fertilizer...yum! |
And because new sh*t is always cooking with our initiative, we are
excited to announce that we will be working with a club of 30 school
kids who have been studying bird life, forests and conservation with
Nyungwe Park Ranger Cleaver.
As part of a program to increase awareness of the importance of trees, each student will receive a sapling and a rabibit. The rabbit manure will be composted into fertilizer to help the sapling grow (a great learning opportunity!) and as rabbits reproduce, one of their off-spring will be paid forward, with additional saplings, to other students, expanding this important awareness initiative.
We are excited to hear what ideas the students will come up with for other projects using the fertilizer their rabbits produce - perhaps starting their own own tree nursery.
Cleaver rocks! and we're so happy to be helping him with his wonderful idea.
As part of a program to increase awareness of the importance of trees, each student will receive a sapling and a rabibit. The rabbit manure will be composted into fertilizer to help the sapling grow (a great learning opportunity!) and as rabbits reproduce, one of their off-spring will be paid forward, with additional saplings, to other students, expanding this important awareness initiative.
We are excited to hear what ideas the students will come up with for other projects using the fertilizer their rabbits produce - perhaps starting their own own tree nursery.
Cleaver rocks! and we're so happy to be helping him with his wonderful idea.
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"It all began with a walk in the forest..." where we met Cleaver, one of the park rangers. Chatting during our hike, we explained our initiative. He told us about his brother, Innocent, who was a cooperative leader trying to improve the lives of his community members. A few emails, some months and 120 goats later, Innocent's cooperative is making plans for the future, thanks to increased crop yields. And Cleaver has partnered up with us to provide rabbits and plant trees with kids from a local school as part of a conservation program. |
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