A discussion with MSF regarding situation on the ground in Addis Ababa: contacts, source of food for Nutriset franchise, needs.

Population served by church community: size, age, famly size, education level, employment, poverty level, health issues, housing, access to land to repurpose for crops, skill sets, local resources for development, arts, music. English speaking. Evaluation of similar communities: what's working, what has been tried, measures of success. What prerequisites should be considered in choosing a site: proximity, amount of land suitable for farming, exisiting structures. Proximity to water.

Resources:

1. Barefoot College: 4 villagers travel to India to learn about solar power and rain water harvesting Barefoot College (www.barefootcollege.org)

3. Green Construction: consult with local green engineers pro bono to repurpose existing structures, build new structures for center. Study of other examples (Patriensa, South Africa, etc.)

3. Evaluation of skill sets, health problems, training of women to handle health issues, investigation of selling excess power, solar powered water pumps

4. Selling of crops to neighboring communities, or to Nutriset franchise for processing

5. $100 laptops throgh Negraponte (which agency is curretly working locally with MDGs in Ethiopia relative to ICTs.

6. Rema Vilage: Visit and evaluate

7. Identification of partners, in kind contributions, matching funders, investors, establishing microfinance network (www.grameen.org)

8. Rotary Club in Africa. 

9. Training of villages to be volunteers in MSF

10 Bananas?

11. Contact Michael North Greenstar (www.greenstar.org) re Solar Powered Community Center

12. Contact Paul Hawkin: Creating of a duplicate center in SF Bay Area to serve needs of an at-rish community mirroring the program idealogy and goals 

13. Oakland Green Corp?

a coaltion between Catholic Charities, Self Help Africa, Nepad, with assistance from Clinton Global Initiative and Carter Center (Hefer, Rotary, Barefoot College) to build a solar powered community center for the local Catholic Church (Sr. James?) Star of Bethlehem designed to provide:

• schooling for children in relevant content
• community garden sustained by water from bore holes, collection devices
• fish ponds? (Rotary)
• ICT training adult
• chickens/livestock (Hefer) 
• microfinance
• solar engineering through Barefoot College