Also a posho mill and a sugar cane farm.

My friend Ethlie’s nephew Mathieu is a filmmaker who started out trying to document the HIV/AIDS pandemic in rural Africa.  Motivated by what he has seen, however, he is now focusing more on trying to help set up basic education for an entire generation of children in a Kenyan village.

Where are these kids’ parents?  Dead, too many of them, from HIV.

Thinking long-term, Mathieu and the local leaders have figured out a bunch of businesses
they could start which would quickly become self-sustaining, with the
revenue going to educate the kids long-term.

This isn’t something where the money goes to some corrupt African
bureaucracy, or half of it goes to administration costs, or the project
is some damn thing that just makes it easier for big business to move
in.

This goes straight to the folks who need it, to do exactly what they need to get started.  And then they’re up and running.  The metaphor he’s using: they’ve built the farm.  Now they’re just hoping somebody can chip in some seeds to get started.

They don’t need much.

Doing the math, if everybody who visits this site between now and next week chips in just one dollar, once, they’ll have enough to get all three basic businesses off the ground.

I bet we can do that.

Personally, I’d love to see how much good happens if we all chip in five bucks.