GSR offers a simple low cost direct business model that has the potential to build village prosperity for millions of people

1. presents

2. Village Solutions for
Global Problems

3. GSR has developed a low cost highly effective
way for rural communities to solve the
challenge of providing sustainable prosperity
for all its people…

4. It is low cost

5. it does not require expensive imported
technology to start…

6. It depends on communities working
together to build their own prosperity

7. It empowers traditional leadership

8. This model is a cross between the
highly successful kibbutz and modern
corporate culture…

9. …adapted to African realities

10. GSR helps villages incorporate as
businesses

11. The owners of the business are
actually the community members

12. the business plan of this village corporation is
designed and executed by the community
corporation management team

13. GSR partners with this
village corporation, and
helps it market its
products

14. … integrate the production value chain
Marketing
Value
added
services
Primary
production

15. … and train small farmers in low cost
permaculture techniques that enable
them to rapidly increase their income

16. Using amrut mitthi soil rejuvenation
methods, it is possible to produce over
$10,000 of produce per hectare

17. Village corporations can bring in
annual revenues of millions of dollars

18. By amalgamating the productive power of many
people into a corporation with large revenues,
prosperity is assured for the whole community

19. Rural communities with barren
unproductive soil…

20. Can transform this barren soil
into fertile farmland
(this is the same land as the previous photograph 5 years later)

21. The village corporation not only farms
– it can produce a wide variety of
products like construction materials

22. Locally produced materials make it
possible to build beautiful homes for
as little as $500

23. And produce their own energy using
low cost, reliable mid scale biomass
plants

24. Training empowers the local
workforce
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25. Unskilled workers gradually become skilled
craftsmen or successful business owners
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Professional learns to
manage, becomes
business owner
Unskilled worker
becomes skilled
professional
Unskilled worker increases
productivity thru OTJ
training

26. Village corporation managers become
proficient in sophisticated
development techniques

27. so they can manage a progressive
capital investment that steadily
increases capacity…
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GSR’s local partners develop vibrant
profitable local economies

29. And tackle more and more
sophisticated development projects

30. Target for a village corporation is a
sustainable income of $4,000 per year
for each family

31. Plus improved health care

32. schools

33. …clinics…

34. And rich cultural life

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GSR plans to reinvest profits
from village development into
building inter-connected
networks of village
corporations. This will make
possible a life of prosperity for
millions.