3. Self-sustainable projects

By carefully researching the community, projects are developed with a method that will fit within the community culture. We can give any village the chance to be technically and financially self-sufficient by teaching them skills and providing the building tools. Through this process, they gain the ability to make decisions about how to best use their new resources.

Once skills are transferred by Ji Duma, men and women in remote villages can sustain themselves by maintaining and repairing, if need be, the technology given to them. The long term presence of outsiders is eliminated.

Along with the transfer of those skills comes independent decisions. Villagers can choose those smaller projects or cottage industries where they wish to invest their time.

Local members of villages must invite Ji Duma into their village and participate in the planning, implementation and maintenance required of
projects within their village. It is Ji Duma’s hope that the members of villages in Mali use the tools and knowledge provided to them in order to chart their own path. With a burgeoning decision-making ability, the probability of ultimately becoming dependent upon government agencies or foreign aid is reduced

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