personality
When I was about 13 I looked in the mirror one day and realized that I was never going to be handsome and that I would have to rely on my personality....
Well I guess that's what millions of people who find themselves living in poverty have to work out. They realise that they are going to have to rely on something other than what they have been given to make it through.
I have recently been looking at a variety of initiatives to release value to the poor. Most of these initiatives involve ideas such as the SASIX social exchange or the idea of an international retail bond and even the "blended\" social investment initiative presented to the world forum in Oxford in April.
What these initiatives all share is a clear focus on money and its investment, a sense of massive scale and an international element. Wealthy people from largely 1st world countries are wanting to "invest" their money in social development projects.
What is missing from these plans are the many local, indigeneous and small initiaves currently being practiced in countless neighbourhoods where poor folk find themselves having to rely on something other..
Roche van Wyk's work in the Western Cape with Mama's Coin Factory under the auspices of Community Resource Organization (check out their website: www.cro.za.org)
The work of the SANE network and many Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) around the globe also deals with value and its trade.
The huge global network of co-operatives seem to offer support to a mix of poor and others within a common bond.
The various environmental organizations and particularly the Full Cost Accounting system that offers an alternate to current accounting systems which ignore the full costs of operations.
There seems to be a divide here. One side in which the formal, global, wealthy are trying to create markets while the poor, dispossed and local are trying to make it through. The question is how should SUNSTYLE position itself?
Well I guess that's what millions of people who find themselves living in poverty have to work out. They realise that they are going to have to rely on something other than what they have been given to make it through.
I have recently been looking at a variety of initiatives to release value to the poor. Most of these initiatives involve ideas such as the SASIX social exchange or the idea of an international retail bond and even the "blended\" social investment initiative presented to the world forum in Oxford in April.
What these initiatives all share is a clear focus on money and its investment, a sense of massive scale and an international element. Wealthy people from largely 1st world countries are wanting to "invest" their money in social development projects.
What is missing from these plans are the many local, indigeneous and small initiaves currently being practiced in countless neighbourhoods where poor folk find themselves having to rely on something other..
Roche van Wyk's work in the Western Cape with Mama's Coin Factory under the auspices of Community Resource Organization (check out their website: www.cro.za.org)
The work of the SANE network and many Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) around the globe also deals with value and its trade.
The huge global network of co-operatives seem to offer support to a mix of poor and others within a common bond.
The various environmental organizations and particularly the Full Cost Accounting system that offers an alternate to current accounting systems which ignore the full costs of operations.
There seems to be a divide here. One side in which the formal, global, wealthy are trying to create markets while the poor, dispossed and local are trying to make it through. The question is how should SUNSTYLE position itself?
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