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In order to create and maintain the infrastructures and the services needed for the success of the project at the lowest possible cost, each resident between 14 and 65 years of age (experts and specialists included) should provide a minimum of 20 hours of community work per week.
This work should be compensated with cash remuneration and by awarding them with "exchange vouchers" which will allow the residents to enjoy goods and services produced inside the villages.
The effective value of the "exchange vouchers" corresponding to twenty working hours of a simple worker must be enough to secure him (or her) of adequate food, decent housing and access to basic services.
This result can be achieved by a sensible use of appropriate technologies, provided the village population is large enough to consent an adequate differentiation of activities and the land available for farming is adequate to the community’s needs.
The cash compensation should be of about R 1.00 per hour, in order to consent to residents the purchase of essential products not produced in the village.
Experts (artisans with apprentices, supervisors, paramedics, teachers etc.) should receive four times the basic remuneration and the specialist eight times.
The numeric relationship between those categories should be of about one expert for every five workers and one specialist for every five experts. The average cost of cash retribution per person will be then below R 35.00 per person per week.
This implies that on average each resident, in order to cover his cash retribution, must produce goods or services every week, to be sold outside the village to the value of thirty five rand, target reasonable enough even for low productivity technologies.
Once having completed the twenty hours community work, the residents will be assisted in establishing a private activity on the basis of profit sharing with the community.
In this way it will be possible to successfully reconcile social interest with free enterprise.
Beside the private sector, this project fully qualifies for financing from the United Nations, the G8 and the European Community
Identify a suitable area for the location of the village Secure a viable option on approximately forty thousand hectares Identify all available local resources Define the more suitable construction method Draw a basic plan of the village Realize a basic project for the whole operation Produce a suitable presentation of the basic project, including a CD Rom and a professional website Obtain support from local authorities, investors, sponsors and experts worldwide Produce the executive project Realize an adequate presentation of the executive project for all interested parties Obtain full financial cover for the realization of the initial phases, knowing that once the project will be running, further expansions will be largely self-financed. Select the specialist team to start the project Initiate the selection of applicants Erect temporary structures for accommodation and workshops Bring fresh water to the construction site and install septic tanks Plant blackberry type bushes on boundaries Start a sustainable fishing operation Introduce wild game in part of the property Initiate cattle, sheep, pig and poultry farming in selected areas Realize a dam for irrigation purpose and fish farming Start growing vegetables Start bottling farm produces Start biltong manufacturing Start producing building materials Start making farm roads and parking areas Open a shop for farm products Organize one barbeque area and provide accommodation for visitors Start building permanent farm houses and workshops Start producing flour, bread and pasta Start recycling of garbage Start producing honey, candles, soap, natural beauty products, soft drinks, beer and alcoholic beverages Build a restaurant, a lodge and a small shopping / business centre
At the end of this period the village will be in a position to produce the majority of the food needed by its growing population and it will be a surplus to sell.
This is a reasonable assumption, based on the fact that European peasants of '700, utilizing inferior tools and technology and burdened by taxes, were still able to feed themselves.
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