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Ramadhan (Tanzania) on Poverty and Population Increasing

Filed under : Dadamac Voices

Message to Pamela and Dadamac community

Thank you for your  patrotism to invite us again  

 to the meeting place for Dadamac's "First Thusday" meeting

POVERTY IN AFRICA AND INCREASING OF POPULATION

Dear members as we are keeping on moving in  

threshold of the 21st Century , a  Century  that is  characterizing  by  competition. It is clear, therefore, that  this Century be a Century dominated by those with advanced technological capacity, high productivity, modern and efficient transport and communication infrastructure and, above all highly skilled manpower imbued with initiative. If we are to be active participants in global developments of the twenty –first we must, as a Individual, find the ways of improving and strethening ourselves in these areas"Povert and Population increasing"

Today's generation of young people is the largest in history. Over 3 billion people - nearly half of the world's population - are under the age of 25.  It is crucial that we engage the young decision makers of tomorrow in the development decisions of today.  I hope that,  the Teacher talking  Program in Kenya will keep on rolling so that to imancipate young generation from mental slavish awareness and creativity.

925 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union; 

(Source: FAO news release,  

Releated Project: 

Starting a new Dadamac OK project - SCD with People's Uni

Dadamac and People's Uni have joined forces to develop a Sickle Cell Disease course. This is coming about in typical Dadamac "responding to need" fashion. The description below serves two purposes. It introduces the way things happen in Dadamac. It provides possible collaborators with an idea of where we are now and the steps we are taking.

Moving in - Useful Links

I am looking at my email inbox and thinking what emails I should choose to reply to as I "move in" to my space here at dadamac.net. As I look, I realise that I will probably be making reference to information published on the Internet within my replies. This means it would be helpful to have the relevant links easily to hand.

You and Us

Thanks for clicking this link. Your easiest next step is to simply e-mail me,  pamela.mclean@dadamac.net , to explain who you are and to start exploring our overlapping interests.

We connect with people in many different ways. You may want to connect with our work on a commercial basis through Dadamac Limited, or with our voluntary work and social programs through Dadamac Foundation, or you may find that we can collaborate simply because it is mutually beneficial and we are all learning something useful in the process - Dadamac Open Knowledge.

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Dadamac OK (Open Knowledge)

People work on Dadamac OK projects for various reasons:

  • Because they want the end result
  • In order to learn
  • To meet people
  • To go places
  • Because it is fun/satisfying/intersting/worhtwhile etc
  • To develop skills
  • To build a reputation
  • Other

Practical benefits

Ideally, in a Dadamac OK (Open Knowledge) project, everyone who is involved benefits by sharing what they know, and something practical happens as a result.

One of the benefits of working in our OK way is that we don't need formal agreements or funding before we can get started. We just "rub minds" and then go forward in small steps that are win-win.

Resources

In an OK situation people need to be open about resourcing issues:

  • What people will do "for free"
  • What additional resources people bring - in addition to themselves
  • What the "lack of funds" stumbling blocks will be
  • How these might be overcome and progress made to overcome them.

Regarding money

Dadamac Foundation is a registered charity. It has legal and online structures to support appropriate projects in their fundraising initiatives, but does not have any fundraisers or financial reserves ready waiting. We work there as true volnteers.

Dadamac Limited is our registered company enabling us to do paid work.

Example

Building the Ecodome with Marcus Simmons  illustrates the Dadamac OK approach.

We all contributed what we knew, and went forward when we had sufficient resources for the next steps, such as travelling and buying building materials.

As a result of a Dadamac OK approach: