Sunday, March 13, 2016

NGO in Paraguay

There are more than 2000 cities around the world bonded with one another through SCI program that made them sister cities. Sister cities are sharing development programs with one another, such as environmental, economical and cultural. Through such realtionships, those cities will grow in their development. Salzburg also has many sister cities, however they all are located in Europe. But let's just imagine the bond Salzburg made with less developed country, such as Paraguay, with poor and small village there called Teniente Morales. A few volunteers organized an NGO in order to help the sister city and collected 25000€ for its development. The essential question is, how correctly invest this money ? The head of the NGO is Johny, who decides how and where he should invest this money. With the help of professionals, he decides that the development ought to be economical and educational. After I heard about the project, I decided to help it and I planned the following part. As we know already, the financial situation in this region is bad. Poverty, lack of education and access to civil places is limited. In order to make successful investment, we will have to find out the number of people living in this area, and the numbers of poor people who are not making enough for their living. With this information we would individually investigate the problem , that is apparently connects us to their crops they plant, number of people in family, how educated they are and the transportation problems. After, we would invest in particular issues, that are shared between those poor number of people. The plan gets approved and when we arrive there we would first buy signs for the road that would be approved by local government that will directly point on the town and to the village, through 25 km trip to town, signs will be located every 5 km, we would spend 4 thousand dollars on them and it will improve the transportation to a market. Another thing is agricultural economy there. We would calculate and look up most profitable crops for growing each season and spend 5 thousands dollars on seeds that we would just give to the farmers who are in failure and debt. The very next thing we are going to do is to sign a contract with agricultural universities in Austria and US that will let students to finish their practice in university earlier and get benefits by helping people in Paraguay and teaching locals planting and caring for crops they didn't use before and with which they are not familiar.The total costs of promotions and contracts will cost about 10 000 dollars, however each volunteer is required to pay 1000 dollars for a 3 week program, and those money will go into primary and high school education of local kids, books, pens, and all of the supplies. The last 6 thousand we will spend on a bus, that we will buy,  that will go twice a day from village to a city and back, and drivers will be provided by government, meaning they will be paid by government,as our sister city relationship wants to develop. This system would work as : 1) farmers are making valuable and profitable product for the market, which would be successful there, as the price of it won't be maximal 2) the transportation to the big market is freely available, only low costs for a bus trip 3) next generations will be more educated and have chances to go to universities and grow up in a social class