Many moons have passed since TimeDesk got involved in the Bunabumali adventure. From a novice in African Affairs back in 2006, gradually a new vsion for rural development emerged, thanks to Norman and his family. Thanks for believing in my sometimes unconventional approach.It’s been touch times and we’ve all learned a lot, also from the solutions that failed. Based on those experiences we can now
start round two of the challenge. I praise Norman for his bravery of ignoring common (NGO) wisdom, and opting for a move forward without an MBA style Buisness plan. You’ve done it mate, you have shown you can do without all the writings. Bunabumali,tumblr.com is now over 5 years old and was Norman’s first weblog, never used to coordinate the future of Bunabumali. That’s changing as of June 2011. when it will become bunabumali,com the offical on-line Buna newspaper. Buna now has it’s own netbook pc and digital camera. All local news will be published on Bunabumali,com and automatically republished on facebook and twitter, putting the latest progress direct in the face of of millions of people worldwide. Local editor for the Bunabumali Chronicle will be ………
Norman is editor in chief
All Buna friends will be invited to become co-editor and interact direct with the folks in the village. While facebook remains the prefered communicationplatform as that’s where we all meet, it’s not realy usefull in presenting the big picture and it’s progress. That’s what Bunabumali.com will be solving. Milestones update
Medical center
In June we start phase one of the Buna Medical center
Library
In June the Library will be officialy started
Dormitory
Norm, whats the status? School buildings
Norm, please update status of classrooms
Energy
Ben is working on a joint venture between Bunabumali and Victron Energy in Holland, providing state of the art, off grid energy infrasructure
Food situation. Ocean bar in Cyprus provide much needed financial resources to secure food stockkl for the community
Clean water
Once the victron services are in place the Naiade water system will once again provide Buna with 2500 liters of purified drinking water per day and mark the start of the Buna Water Company. Building initiatives. Recent months have been really exiting. TimeDesk donated professional building tools and a chainsaw. All of a sudden Buna had it’s first skyescraper. Weeks later we started a trail to build a landslide proof PET bottle building to be used as office for Norman and Ann and Ben when they are in Buna. In June we start phase 1 of the medical post
