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Impact of applying Sustainocracy
Today I received the following message from Uganda.
Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda: Sustainocracy Impact
*3,000+ refugees benefited from sustainable agriculture training
*500+ children enrolled in vocational programs
*80% reduction in water-borne diseases
*90% increase in community-led initiatives
Empowered refugee leaders, improved social services, and enhanced resilience.
In a refugee camp, where financial poverty reigns, people depend on each other. But if there is no engagement leadership this hardly happens. And leadership needs to be empowered, not by hierarchical subordination but through methods of empowerment of their surroundings. With the set of core human values as a shared responsibility, the division of tasks (input) and the sharing of the output, becomes a valuable glue to form society. A society based on community spirit, leadership in terms of common wellness objectives, learning together and stimulating local solution driven creativity.
In the Western world, in which all the societal functions got strongly economized, fragmented and politized, the Sustainocratic approach can have equal benefits and many more. They however need to deal with the fragmented interests and established unsustainable public comforts that have grown over time. In the process of overcoming them we see benefits in terms of social cohesion, significant health improvement, less societal costs, improved mental health, increased creativity and innovation, elimination of poverty and individualism, etc. But these benefits are only experienced after the letting go process of the economic growth push of politics, the transformation of comforts and engagement of citizens and 4 x WIN adaptation of business entities. Not an easy task as a voluntarily driven process, avoiding the involuntary dramas of crises and recessions. Human tendency is to stick to its comforts until they break. Showing the benefits may get a percentage of society to engage and become a positive and evolutionary example for others to follow. Cudos to Nakivale in Uganda for being such an example.
Refugee community in Uganda starts own food production
Food is known as a community builder. At the side of food preparation and consumption the kitchen has traditionally been the family place to meet, talk, interact, help or simply be. In many cultures the food related activities take many hours and are the kernel of family or community life. In Uganda, the people in the Nakivale refugee settlement, asked their government for a few fields in which to develop their own food. The local government granted them the use of nearby fields for a period of 10 years including the option to buy them as property. Gradually local people started to get motivated to join the cultivation team. International foundations, such as STIR, try to help with small amounts of money, acquired through GoFund (link here), to allow the community to purchase materials, seeds and even water. We also provide online advice, as FRE2SH, on how to develop a local economy, providing recognition and fair sharing methods for those that invest time and energy in the cultivation process. We are pleased to see how many people are gathering and developing the food community.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 