1
YEAR (BY
END OF 2004)
a) An industrial Hammer Mill,
to be located in Serenje boma next to the town office. This will help
to raise money for developmental activities like building classrooms
for the children, and training facilities for the HIV/Aids life skills
project. This will gradually reduce our dependence on support from outside.
Our experience with the Chibobo hammer mill (which can raise some K22m
per year) indicates that we could do extremely well in the larger town.
The cost of this is about K38m, including transport. The cost of land
for this will be approximately K2m. (Note that the current exchange
rate is approx K7800 per pound)
b) A Tractor, a heavy duty
vehicle which can be used extensively on our site and leased to generate
income. The cost of this is approx K80m. The farming project will be
greatly enhanced by such a vehicle since it means that ploughing can
be achieved at the required time and that all the available land can
then be put to productive use.
c) The establishment of a
small fully equipped 2 bedroom medical clinic at Chibobo so that the
children and other vulnerables in the area may be quickly treated for
illness. At present, there is no clinic in the area and some have died
because of the delay in treatment. The tractor and hammer mill will
allow us to meet the costs of building and stocking the clinic.
d) Partial electrification
of the Chibobo Centre. The acquisition of a small generator and additional
solar panels, invertors and batteries are sorely needed in order to
offer training courses and library facilities (resource center) in the
evenings. The orphanage in particular requires lighting for evening
activities (eg reading, games) as does proposed church conferences.
The cost of such electrification may be close to K30m.
The acquisition of the items
above will also mean that HMP can then also tackle other pressing financial
needs such as enlarging the orphanage from 32 to 100 children and increasing
our school to include Grade 3, since the building materials can be easily
purchased and transported to the site. The impact of the tractor and
hammer mill will enable us to meet increasing demands for technology
resources for the whole district. Our recent success in distributing
25,000 books and 74 computers to the local community has already created
a demand for more books and computers for those areas of the community
which were not able to be assisted in these first shipments. Therefore,
we hope to repeat our initial efforts by organizing further books and
computers from overseas.
3
YEAR (BY
END OF 2006)
a) Because of the projected growth in our agricultural
produce and marketing needs as a result of tractor and hammer mill,
we anticipate that our present aging vehicles will not be able to be
able to cope with the increased activities. At present we have 3 vehicles:
1983 Toyota Hilux pick-up, 1995 Toyota Town Ace pick-up, and the current
relief vehicle 1994 Isuzu pick-up. The two Toyotas have suffered enormous
wear and tear because of the tremendous workload they have carried for
the past 3 years – indeed, it is possible that they may not even
last more than one more year. We expect we may need another 2 tonne
pick-up and also a large 10 tonne truck, estimated costs if bought duty-free
in South Africa (similar to how we obtained the Isuzu recently) –
approx K50m for the pick-up, and K80m for the truck.
b) The establishment of a greenhouse with the goal of
developing appropriate technologies of agriculture to improve the type
of crops locally, and adaptations so that outside crops may also be
introduced. The greenhouse and accompanying irrigation facilities could
cost up to K40m.
5
YEAR (BY
END OF 2008)
Since the present
cohort of children attending the school and orphanage at Chibobo will
be in their adolescent age group, we anticipate that we may require
carpentry and farm tools in order to improve their abilities to become
productive members of the local community (e.g. carpenters, builders,
plumbers, electricians, mechanics etc). It is too early to estimate
the cost of this endeavour.