I trust you are well? I am pleased to hear you are actively discussing the MOU!
Brilliant - you've grasped the idea underpinning the concept, Nitin! It is the MOU, which will embody the guiding principles, in the relationship, between your private community initiative, and the local government department.
We will incorporate the areas of cooperation, and the respective roles, which you reach agreement (with the officials in your meetings with them!), will be played by your club and the various local govenment departments.
Hopefully, we would have had Poonam's input, about the international non-governmental organisations, which she contacted - and agreed to work with Vadgam. Take care, Nitin - and regards to the rest of your colleagues.
I am requesting you to pl.send us a sample copy of such type of MOU if you have,we would like to study on it.I also requesting you to pl.inform us a example of such type of agreement if anywhere or any website related it.
I like to requesting you that pl.guide us to make a list of pipeline activity like education,de-addiction programme,sport & cultural event etc..
we have a three current topic for work one is set-up a computer Lab in village,secoond is summer camp and third one is PPP.
Pl.make a excell sheet for future activity.(Activity planning sheet).
I haven't actually ever thought of looking up an MOU on the web, before - but one learns something new, everyday! Its just a normal part of my every-day working life: so I find the idea of refering to the web, for an example, rather charming!
You ask to be guided "to make a list..." of future activites (I presume that is what "pipeline activities" means?). Nitin, you and your hardworking team, have already decided on two very sensible projects: setting up a computer lab and having a summer camp. What we must now try to do, is to get the local authorities, to commit to a PPP.
Nitin, the acronym PPP, is just a fancy label, dreamt up by spindoctors, at the behest of modern-day, image-conscious politicians, to describe the simple process, of project implementation partnerships, involving, in your case, private sector players (such as Vadgam Sports Club); the foreign NGO's contacted by Poonam; and (local/Vadgam) government departments!
Remember the past - when the Indian economy, although a mixed one, consisting of both public and private sectors, reserved many sectors of the economy, for Indians only?
Well, in those days, a PPP involving Vadgam Sports Club, Vadgam's local authorities, and a foreign NGO, would probably not have been possible - and it is a moot point, if a PPP, between you and any local governemnt department, would be possible today, if the Gujarat State Assembly, was controlled, by the Communist Party: as they would probably frown on PPP's!
Nitin, it is you and your colleagues, who must make available to me, going forward, the list of activities, which you would want your local authorities, to help you carry out, as you work together with them (in your example of a private/public partenrship - PPP!), to implement, the projects covered by the MOU (memorandum of understand!), signed by your good self, and the local governemnt big wigs!
So, once you hold your discussions with them, and reach agreement on the nature of assistance they are prepared to provide you, to help you set up the computer lab, and set up your summer camp, we will draw up an MOU to cover both projects. Then you can do same with the foreign NGO's which are keen to partner you, too.
Perhaps we can use Ghana as an example, to make the idea clearer. The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) provides funding, for projects aimed at bringing down the incidence of HIV/AIDS, in Ghana.
If (just to illustrate!)Vadgam was a village in Ghana, and the Vadgam Sports Club submitted a project proposal to the GAC, to access GAC funding, to set up a summer camp for young people, to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, you would sign an MOU with the GAC, when the project proposal is approved - to provide a framework for the project's implementation.
So, have your meeting with the local government officials, and get an agreement from them, as to precisely what state aid can be provided, to a project involving your club (either alone - or with a foreign NGO), to set up a computer lab, and to run a summer camp - then we will draw up a draft MOU: which you will then submit to them, for review and comment, Nitin. Take care - and regards to the rest of your team!
Congratulations - its good to hear your documents for registering the trust have been submitted to the authorities. Well done!
Nitin, I don't know just how scenic Vadgam is, but if its got potential for eco-tourism, then it might be best to weave the long term future of the project, around community-based eco-tourism (CBE).
That way, you can adopt a holistic approach, to ensuring the long term sustainable future of the project - and of the Vadgam community. By using eco-tourism as the tool for sustainable development, you will be able to have ongoing and consistent relationships, with various NGO's: both local and foreign.
Do you know the Moringa oleifera tree, Nitin? Please let me know if you are familiar with it. It could play a very important role in the future of Vadgam. It is easily the most useful tree for developing world communities - and in fact originates from your part of the world.
Its leaves, when dried, can be made into a powdered food supplement, which can dramatically improve the nutritional status of those who add it to their meals, on a daily basis - a real boon for growing children: and their virile older siblings and parents, too!
And when it is fed to farm animals, its leaves make very nutritious fodder for them: and keeps them strong and healthy. Extract from its leaves can also be used as a folair fertiliser - and can increase yields by as much as 25%! And above all, it could be the basis for a sustainable and useful income-generating micro-enterprise, for the Vadgam community too!
So do let me know, Nitin. And as you are all so eager and are committed to the project, I am sure that if all of us work closely together: you working hard on the ground in Vadgam, and the online neighbours staying on board till the end of the project, we can make this a success!
Poonam has already kick-started the project, by getting you some computers - against all odds! And I will look through my own network of contacts, and try and get someone with a track record in CBE initiatives - so he will guide you, going forward.
We have got the most important building block to ensure the success of the project, Nitin: the fact that you react almost instantaneously to postings from online neighbours, consistently! Perfect. Now let us get on with it!!!! Regards to all your neighbours.
yes,eco-tourism is best idea. vadgam proper is not so scenic but some around areas to vadgam definitely helpful for eco-tourism. We interested to develop community-based eco-tourism in our areas.I m adding this point to our list of activity also.
I would like to know which type of support and help possible to vadgam project by community-based eco-tourism?
I am not much familiar with Moringa Oleifera tree.I am interested to make it success.First I like to try to plantation in my farm land with your guidance and than start other areas after successful result.what about the marketing of this product?How can we get a market?how can we get a seeds?from where?which type of land require?water requirement?what is production in area?what time period for production? What is income?
Pl.guide me on above point and we definatelly interested to this project.
Thanks once again for good information and ideas.
I am requesting you to pl. come forward to develop eco-tourism and Moringa Oleifera tree project in vadgam and take a time for successful.
Splendid! I am so glad you have settled on eco-tourism! I really think the vision of your team, which envisages a sustainable future for Vadgam, underpinned by a local economy, based on eco-tourism and growing Moringa oleifera, is really sound, indeed!
I have tried to call the "Thenmala Eco-tourism" people to see if they could help you - but to no avail. Could you ask your local government officials in charge of forestry and tourism to try their number, too - and have a chat with them, to see how best they could help? This is their number:+ 99 475 254 4800.
They are in Kerala State - and actually started India's first properly planned eco-tourism project! There is a lot that both you and your local government officials can learn from them, about community-based eco-tourism initiatives.
You can also email Mr. Newton Amaglo and Mr. Lowell Fuglie:amaglonewton@yahoo.com, lowellfuglie@yahoo.com, about where in India you can get moringa oleifera seeds.
They both have very good contacts in India. Mr. Amaglo is a leading Ghanaian researcher, and is doing research work on Moringa oleifera, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. And Mr. Lowell Fuglie is a recognised world authority on Moringa oleifer!
You can base your email to them on the draft below. Send one to each of them. Good luck, Nitin - and do keep me posted! Regards to all your colleagues - and the other Vadgam neighbours: both online, and on the ground, there with you, in India!
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
Dear Mr....,
Your email address was given to me by Kofi Thompson - who suggested we contact you, as you are amongst Ghanas's leading Moringa oleifera researchers. We live in Vadgam, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat - and are keen to establish community moringa plantations.
We would be most grateful for any useful information you could give us, on the plant: and above all, for any contacts you might have here in India, who could help us, cultivate it. Many thanks in advance - and hoping to hear from you soon.
They could prove to be a very useful source, for you to get volunteer IT trainers, and perhaps advertise for previously-owned computers, as well, if you do joined as a member.
Good luck with it, Nitin - and do let me know how it works out for you!
Thanks for positive reply.ok I will emailed consernt person as per your suggestion.also will try to find out more from them also.
Can you tell me more about eco-tourism?which type of help vadgam will get through eco-tourism?i mean which type of support possible through eco-tourism?
I also like to know from you that at the time of tourist at vadgam we need to arrange something for them like resident,travelling,launch etc,so we need to have a balance amount for such type of activity,without a balance how can we manage such a thing?Any government or personal sponshership available such type of activity?
I am intersted to plant Moringa oleifera in my farm ,so pl.find more information on it to help me develop such type of plantation in village.
I also requesting you to guide me some more income generated activity for better future of our village.
Let us despair not - you now have the gems of two ideas, which will make your village have more or less sustainable sources of income: cultivating moringa, and community-based eco-tourism.
As regards the cultivation of Moringa oleifera, you have just been e-introduced to two of the most knowledgeable people on the surface of the earth, on the subject.
Ask them all you want to know about moringa, Nitin. They are both generous-spirited individuals who are always happy to share their knowledge willingly, and freely, with others!
My family started growing moringa on one of our farms - and it was Mr. Amaglo who introduced the plant to us! He is also an expert on organic farming - so hold fast to both contacts, Nitin! The ball there, Nitin, is firmly in your court: and you will succeed if you really want to.
I have also given you the contact telephone number of the organisation behind India's first properly planned eco-tourism project - again the best possible source of assistance you can possibly get, in the whole of India!
Call them Nitin - and tell them (or better still, get your local government official in charge of tourism, to call them!), you want their help in turning your village into a community-based eco-tourism destination, where "volun-tourists"can take part in community-run projects such as teaching computing to the village children - and planting moringa in the farms of community members. Nitin, you now have your future in your own hands, so to speak - so go for it!!!!
Please let the local government officials you have made contact with recently, work together with you and Poonam, to develop relationships with the people and organisations in the list!
And let me hasten to add, that none of the people and organisations, are know to me personally - so do not mention me to them, whatever you do! Good luck - and do keep me posted!
I was out of vadgam since last Tuesday so,I am very sorry to late reply. Ok. I not lose hope, I am very Positive to do something good for village with the help of helpful persons like you around the world. Yes, I hope we will be successes in our good project.
That’s right we have a gems of two ideas :- cultivating moringa and community-based eco-tourism.
I emailed the message to most knowledgeable people ,you e-introduced to me. I received reply from Lowell Fuglie , which I forwarded to you. I will try to study the website suggest by lowel Fuglie and will know more about it.
I will definitely contact the organization suggested by you and also try to conact local government official regarding turning our village into a community-based eco-tourism destination.
It’s a good news that your family started growing moringa at your farm.
Is it possible to export moringa production to outside India ? which type of market in world? How can I sell our production? Can I get a contact details of the moringa merchant?
If we get a support to sell moringa than it will be really gem project for us.
I once again requesting you to pl.be in touch in with me regarding this subject and help to start a new revolution in village agriculture to generate good income for village farmers.
I am thankful to provide us a more CBE Contacts for us.I will contact them and requesting for help our project for the same.
I trust you are well? I am so glad you will be following up on the contacts Mr. Fuglie kindly gave you.
The important thing to do, Nitin, is to try and get someone from inside India itself, to teach you and your Vadgam neighbours, how to cultivate the Moringas oleifera.
And as its such a fast-growing tree, you will not have to wait for decades, to benefit, from this marvellous plant, Nitin!
I suppose its overall importance, in the grand scheme of things, for Vadgam, going forward, is that it will provide you, with a protein-rich food supplement; fodder that will help to improve the health of farm animals, in your local animal husbandry industry; and offer future volun-tourists, the opportunity, to neutralise, some of their holiday carbon footprint, by purchasing and planting seedlings in community and individually-owned wood-lots, of moringa!
And it will also also enhance the ecology of Vadgam generally, I guess (particularly important at a time of global climate change)!!!
Well, I do hope you will be rewarded with positive outcomes, in all your meetings, with the various organisations, which are dedicated to the promotion of sustainable tourism, and development, in rural India, when you finally meet with them, Nitin. Take care, dear friend.
Well,I am fine and hope you also be a well from your injuary.
I am ready to cultivate Moringas oleifera and also contacted for its seed.seeds is available in india and i will get it,but I require more help on following points.
- How to cultivate
Require Guideline and ground support
- Marketing
How to make various product from trees & how can I sell?
How to find market contact detail?is it possible to export?
- is it possible to plantation on contract basis.I provide land for cultivation,i mean joint venture.
-If someone find who know hindi language that it will better helpful us to cultivate guideline understanding.
I am requesting you to pl.provide me a contact details if possible from gujarat or hindi language state in india,it will better helpful to me.
I definately like this idea and sure to do start it cultivation,so pl.keep it with more details and requesting you to pl.support to start a good revolution in area.
Good to hear from you, again! Hmmm, well, perhaps you ought to contact Mr. Eric Lematais: eric.lehavre@wanadoo.fr, for possible help, for your Moringa project, under the circumstances.
I think you will find that he is very enthusiastic about moringa products! I trust you are all well? Regards to you and all your colleagues! And stay blessed, Nitin.
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
PS This is a draft you can adapt, for that purpose, if you think it is suitable - and doesn't cramp your style, Nitin!:
Dear Mr. Lematais,
we got your contact details from Kofi Thompson, from Ghana: whom we work with, as a fellow volunteer, on an onlne volunteer website, www.nabuur.com.
He suggested we get in touch with you: because you are a generous-spirited individual, as well as one of the most knowledgeable individuals, on the marketing of Moringa products, in the world - . We live in Vadgam, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Our village is one of a number of developing nation villages, which are being assisted, by www.nabuur.com online volunteers, known as "neighbours" (from the old Dutch word for neighbour, which symbolises, for the founder of Nabuur.com, Mr. Siegfried Woldhek, the sense of community and neighbourliness, of a bygone age in Holland - which he seeks to recreate online, in today's connected web 2.0 global village!).
We know nothing about the plant, apart from the little we have been told of it, by Kofi Thompson. But we believe it could revolutionise the local economy of our village, going forward, into the not too distant future - and help our community to have a sustainable future, at a time of global climate change. Can you assist us, Mr. Lematais - by befriending Vadgam? We will be delighted to hear from you soon - and look forward to a positive response from you: and thank you in advance, for your kindness to us!
HJello Nitin,
I trust you are well? I am pleased to hear you are actively discussing the MOU!
Brilliant - you've grasped the idea underpinning the concept, Nitin! It is the MOU, which will embody the guiding principles, in the relationship, between your private community initiative, and the local government department.
We will incorporate the areas of cooperation, and the respective roles, which you reach agreement (with the officials in your meetings with them!), will be played by your club and the various local govenment departments.
Hopefully, we would have had Poonam's input, about the international non-governmental organisations, which she contacted - and agreed to work with Vadgam. Take care, Nitin - and regards to the rest of your colleagues.
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
Hello Kofi,
I am requesting you to pl.send us a sample copy of such type of MOU if you have,we would like to study on it.I also requesting you to pl.inform us a example of such type of agreement if anywhere or any website related it.
I like to requesting you that pl.guide us to make a list of pipeline activity like education,de-addiction programme,sport & cultural event etc..
we have a three current topic for work one is set-up a computer Lab in village,secoond is summer camp and third one is PPP.
Pl.make a excell sheet for future activity.(Activity planning sheet).
Thanking you,
Regards,
Nitin
Hello Nitin,
I haven't actually ever thought of looking up an MOU on the web, before - but one learns something new, everyday! Its just a normal part of my every-day working life: so I find the idea of refering to the web, for an example, rather charming!
You ask to be guided "to make a list..." of future activites (I presume that is what "pipeline activities" means?). Nitin, you and your hardworking team, have already decided on two very sensible projects: setting up a computer lab and having a summer camp. What we must now try to do, is to get the local authorities, to commit to a PPP.
Nitin, the acronym PPP, is just a fancy label, dreamt up by spindoctors, at the behest of modern-day, image-conscious politicians, to describe the simple process, of project implementation partnerships, involving, in your case, private sector players (such as Vadgam Sports Club); the foreign NGO's contacted by Poonam; and (local/Vadgam) government departments!
Remember the past - when the Indian economy, although a mixed one, consisting of both public and private sectors, reserved many sectors of the economy, for Indians only?
Well, in those days, a PPP involving Vadgam Sports Club, Vadgam's local authorities, and a foreign NGO, would probably not have been possible - and it is a moot point, if a PPP, between you and any local governemnt department, would be possible today, if the Gujarat State Assembly, was controlled, by the Communist Party: as they would probably frown on PPP's!
Nitin, it is you and your colleagues, who must make available to me, going forward, the list of activities, which you would want your local authorities, to help you carry out, as you work together with them (in your example of a private/public partenrship - PPP!), to implement, the projects covered by the MOU (memorandum of understand!), signed by your good self, and the local governemnt big wigs!
So, once you hold your discussions with them, and reach agreement on the nature of assistance they are prepared to provide you, to help you set up the computer lab, and set up your summer camp, we will draw up an MOU to cover both projects. Then you can do same with the foreign NGO's which are keen to partner you, too.
Perhaps we can use Ghana as an example, to make the idea clearer. The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) provides funding, for projects aimed at bringing down the incidence of HIV/AIDS, in Ghana.
If (just to illustrate!)Vadgam was a village in Ghana, and the Vadgam Sports Club submitted a project proposal to the GAC, to access GAC funding, to set up a summer camp for young people, to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, you would sign an MOU with the GAC, when the project proposal is approved - to provide a framework for the project's implementation.
So, have your meeting with the local government officials, and get an agreement from them, as to precisely what state aid can be provided, to a project involving your club (either alone - or with a foreign NGO), to set up a computer lab, and to run a summer camp - then we will draw up a draft MOU: which you will then submit to them, for review and comment, Nitin. Take care - and regards to the rest of your team!
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
Dear Kofi,
Ok, "pipeline activities" means work we like to do in future.We like to make a list of activity like we thought PPP consept.Education,sport etc.
I think so many activites will be possible by the village group on agriculture,rain water harvesting,child development etc.
I am requesting you to pl.suggest us which type of activites will be possible by the group to do in future.
Its one type of planning of our project.
Thanking you,
Regards,
Nitin
PS:-Today we completed the procedure to trust formation and present a all document to CA office for further procedure.
Hello Nitin,
Congratulations - its good to hear your documents for registering the trust have been submitted to the authorities. Well done!
Nitin, I don't know just how scenic Vadgam is, but if its got potential for eco-tourism, then it might be best to weave the long term future of the project, around community-based eco-tourism (CBE).
That way, you can adopt a holistic approach, to ensuring the long term sustainable future of the project - and of the Vadgam community. By using eco-tourism as the tool for sustainable development, you will be able to have ongoing and consistent relationships, with various NGO's: both local and foreign.
Do you know the Moringa oleifera tree, Nitin? Please let me know if you are familiar with it. It could play a very important role in the future of Vadgam. It is easily the most useful tree for developing world communities - and in fact originates from your part of the world.
Its leaves, when dried, can be made into a powdered food supplement, which can dramatically improve the nutritional status of those who add it to their meals, on a daily basis - a real boon for growing children: and their virile older siblings and parents, too!
And when it is fed to farm animals, its leaves make very nutritious fodder for them: and keeps them strong and healthy. Extract from its leaves can also be used as a folair fertiliser - and can increase yields by as much as 25%! And above all, it could be the basis for a sustainable and useful income-generating micro-enterprise, for the Vadgam community too!
So do let me know, Nitin. And as you are all so eager and are committed to the project, I am sure that if all of us work closely together: you working hard on the ground in Vadgam, and the online neighbours staying on board till the end of the project, we can make this a success!
Poonam has already kick-started the project, by getting you some computers - against all odds! And I will look through my own network of contacts, and try and get someone with a track record in CBE initiatives - so he will guide you, going forward.
We have got the most important building block to ensure the success of the project, Nitin: the fact that you react almost instantaneously to postings from online neighbours, consistently! Perfect. Now let us get on with it!!!! Regards to all your neighbours.
Best wishes,
Kofi.
Hello Kofi,
Thanks for the congratulations.
yes,eco-tourism is best idea. vadgam proper is not so scenic but some around areas to vadgam definitely helpful for eco-tourism. We interested to develop community-based eco-tourism in our areas.I m adding this point to our list of activity also.
I would like to know which type of support and help possible to vadgam project by community-based eco-tourism?
I am not much familiar with Moringa Oleifera tree.I am interested to make it success.First I like to try to plantation in my farm land with your guidance and than start other areas after successful result.what about the marketing of this product?How can we get a market?how can we get a seeds?from where?which type of land require?water requirement?what is production in area?what time period for production? What is income?
Pl.guide me on above point and we definatelly interested to this project.
Thanks once again for good information and ideas.
I am requesting you to pl. come forward to develop eco-tourism and Moringa Oleifera tree project in vadgam and take a time for successful.
Thanking you once gain.
Regards,
Nitin
Hello Nitin,
Splendid! I am so glad you have settled on eco-tourism! I really think the vision of your team, which envisages a sustainable future for Vadgam, underpinned by a local economy, based on eco-tourism and growing Moringa oleifera, is really sound, indeed!
I have tried to call the "Thenmala Eco-tourism" people to see if they could help you - but to no avail. Could you ask your local government officials in charge of forestry and tourism to try their number, too - and have a chat with them, to see how best they could help? This is their number:+ 99 475 254 4800.
They are in Kerala State - and actually started India's first properly planned eco-tourism project! There is a lot that both you and your local government officials can learn from them, about community-based eco-tourism initiatives.
You can also email Mr. Newton Amaglo and Mr. Lowell Fuglie:amaglonewton@yahoo.com, lowellfuglie@yahoo.com, about where in India you can get moringa oleifera seeds.
They both have very good contacts in India. Mr. Amaglo is a leading Ghanaian researcher, and is doing research work on Moringa oleifera, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. And Mr. Lowell Fuglie is a recognised world authority on Moringa oleifer!
You can base your email to them on the draft below. Send one to each of them. Good luck, Nitin - and do keep me posted! Regards to all your colleagues - and the other Vadgam neighbours: both online, and on the ground, there with you, in India!
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
Dear Mr....,
Your email address was given to me by Kofi Thompson - who suggested we contact you, as you are amongst Ghanas's leading Moringa oleifera researchers. We live in Vadgam, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat - and are keen to establish community moringa plantations.
We would be most grateful for any useful information you could give us, on the plant: and above all, for any contacts you might have here in India, who could help us, cultivate it. Many thanks in advance - and hoping to hear from you soon.
Warmest regards,
Nitin .....
(Chairperson Vadgam.....)
Hello again, Nitin!
I gave this link to Pelle some time ago. However, I am not sure if I also remembered to ask him to pass it on to you:
:http://www.takingitglobal.org/resources/toolkits/view.html?ToolkitID=1283
They could prove to be a very useful source, for you to get volunteer IT trainers, and perhaps advertise for previously-owned computers, as well, if you do joined as a member.
Good luck with it, Nitin - and do let me know how it works out for you!
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
Hello Kofi,
Thanks for positive reply.ok I will emailed consernt person as per your suggestion.also will try to find out more from them also.
Can you tell me more about eco-tourism?which type of help vadgam will get through eco-tourism?i mean which type of support possible through eco-tourism?
I also like to know from you that at the time of tourist at vadgam we need to arrange something for them like resident,travelling,launch etc,so we need to have a balance amount for such type of activity,without a balance how can we manage such a thing?Any government or personal sponshership available such type of activity?
I am intersted to plant Moringa oleifera in my farm ,so pl.find more information on it to help me develop such type of plantation in village.
I also requesting you to guide me some more income generated activity for better future of our village.
Thanking you,
Regards,
Nitin
Hello Nitin,
Let us despair not - you now have the gems of two ideas, which will make your village have more or less sustainable sources of income: cultivating moringa, and community-based eco-tourism.
As regards the cultivation of Moringa oleifera, you have just been e-introduced to two of the most knowledgeable people on the surface of the earth, on the subject.
Ask them all you want to know about moringa, Nitin. They are both generous-spirited individuals who are always happy to share their knowledge willingly, and freely, with others!
My family started growing moringa on one of our farms - and it was Mr. Amaglo who introduced the plant to us! He is also an expert on organic farming - so hold fast to both contacts, Nitin! The ball there, Nitin, is firmly in your court: and you will succeed if you really want to.
I have also given you the contact telephone number of the organisation behind India's first properly planned eco-tourism project - again the best possible source of assistance you can possibly get, in the whole of India!
Call them Nitin - and tell them (or better still, get your local government official in charge of tourism, to call them!), you want their help in turning your village into a community-based eco-tourism destination, where "volun-tourists"can take part in community-run projects such as teaching computing to the village children - and planting moringa in the farms of community members. Nitin, you now have your future in your own hands, so to speak - so go for it!!!!
Best wishes,
Kofi
Hello Nitin,
I have managed to get some more CBE contacts for you, through my network of responsible tourism industry professionals:
India ▪ Indigenous tourism for rural livelihoods: www.exploreruralindia.org - registry.in@undp.org
▪ The Network Enterprises Fund - www.bidnetwork.org/institution-48955-en.html Stefano Funari: stefano.funari@TheNetworkEnterprisesFund.in
▪ Village and Farm Tourism Network - Chandresh Singh Krishna: chandreshindia@rediffmail.com
Please let the local government officials you have made contact with recently, work together with you and Poonam, to develop relationships with the people and organisations in the list!
And let me hasten to add, that none of the people and organisations, are know to me personally - so do not mention me to them, whatever you do! Good luck - and do keep me posted!
Best wishes,
Kofi.
Hello Kofi,
I was out of vadgam since last Tuesday so,I am very sorry to late reply. Ok. I not lose hope, I am very Positive to do something good for village with the help of helpful persons like you around the world. Yes, I hope we will be successes in our good project.
That’s right we have a gems of two ideas :- cultivating moringa and community-based eco-tourism.
I emailed the message to most knowledgeable people ,you e-introduced to me. I received reply from Lowell Fuglie , which I forwarded to you. I will try to study the website suggest by lowel Fuglie and will know more about it.
I will definitely contact the organization suggested by you and also try to conact local government official regarding turning our village into a community-based eco-tourism destination.
It’s a good news that your family started growing moringa at your farm.
Is it possible to export moringa production to outside India ? which type of market in world? How can I sell our production? Can I get a contact details of the moringa merchant?
If we get a support to sell moringa than it will be really gem project for us.
I once again requesting you to pl.be in touch in with me regarding this subject and help to start a new revolution in village agriculture to generate good income for village farmers.
I am thankful to provide us a more CBE Contacts for us.I will contact them and requesting for help our project for the same.
Thanks once again,
Regards,
Nitin
Hello Nitin,
I trust you are well? I am so glad you will be following up on the contacts Mr. Fuglie kindly gave you.
The important thing to do, Nitin, is to try and get someone from inside India itself, to teach you and your Vadgam neighbours, how to cultivate the Moringas oleifera.
And as its such a fast-growing tree, you will not have to wait for decades, to benefit, from this marvellous plant, Nitin!
I suppose its overall importance, in the grand scheme of things, for Vadgam, going forward, is that it will provide you, with a protein-rich food supplement; fodder that will help to improve the health of farm animals, in your local animal husbandry industry; and offer future volun-tourists, the opportunity, to neutralise, some of their holiday carbon footprint, by purchasing and planting seedlings in community and individually-owned wood-lots, of moringa!
And it will also also enhance the ecology of Vadgam generally, I guess (particularly important at a time of global climate change)!!!
Well, I do hope you will be rewarded with positive outcomes, in all your meetings, with the various organisations, which are dedicated to the promotion of sustainable tourism, and development, in rural India, when you finally meet with them, Nitin. Take care, dear friend.
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
Hello Kofi,
Well,I am fine and hope you also be a well from your injuary.
I am ready to cultivate Moringas oleifera and also contacted for its seed.seeds is available in india and i will get it,but I require more help on following points.
- How to cultivate
Require Guideline and ground support
- Marketing
How to make various product from trees & how can I sell?
How to find market contact detail?is it possible to export?
- is it possible to plantation on contract basis.I provide land for cultivation,i mean joint venture.
-If someone find who know hindi language that it will better helpful us to cultivate guideline understanding.
I am requesting you to pl.provide me a contact details if possible from gujarat or hindi language state in india,it will better helpful to me.
I definately like this idea and sure to do start it cultivation,so pl.keep it with more details and requesting you to pl.support to start a good revolution in area.
Thank you kofi,
Regards,
Nitin
Hello Nitin,
Good to hear from you, again! Hmmm, well, perhaps you ought to contact Mr. Eric Lematais: eric.lehavre@wanadoo.fr, for possible help, for your Moringa project, under the circumstances.
I think you will find that he is very enthusiastic about moringa products! I trust you are all well? Regards to you and all your colleagues! And stay blessed, Nitin.
Warmest regards,
Kofi.
PS This is a draft you can adapt, for that purpose, if you think it is suitable - and doesn't cramp your style, Nitin!:
Dear Mr. Lematais,
we got your contact details from Kofi Thompson, from Ghana: whom we work with, as a fellow volunteer, on an onlne volunteer website, www.nabuur.com.
He suggested we get in touch with you: because you are a generous-spirited individual, as well as one of the most knowledgeable individuals, on the marketing of Moringa products, in the world - . We live in Vadgam, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Our village is one of a number of developing nation villages, which are being assisted, by www.nabuur.com online volunteers, known as "neighbours" (from the old Dutch word for neighbour, which symbolises, for the founder of Nabuur.com, Mr. Siegfried Woldhek, the sense of community and neighbourliness, of a bygone age in Holland - which he seeks to recreate online, in today's connected web 2.0 global village!).
We know nothing about the plant, apart from the little we have been told of it, by Kofi Thompson. But we believe it could revolutionise the local economy of our village, going forward, into the not too distant future - and help our community to have a sustainable future, at a time of global climate change. Can you assist us, Mr. Lematais - by befriending Vadgam? We will be delighted to hear from you soon - and look forward to a positive response from you: and thank you in advance, for your kindness to us!
Best wishes,
Nitin.
(Chairperson, Vadgam........)