2. Purpose
To provide African youth with the opportunity
to create natural leaders in a progressive and
supportive environment
The HIM Institute campus is specially designed to be an
organic, sustainable, self-contained, education-based compound creating its
own supply of natural resources
that will maintain its own operations and expenses.
3. Needs
The youth of Africa have been disadvantaged throughout the
history of modern society.
Three prevailing issues
Poverty
Ignorance
Disease
Evidence of this cause and effect can be seen in a lack of development in African
economics, education and health care systems throughout the continent.
4. Ghana
In Ghana, lack of development has translated
into a generation who are, in many ways,
disadvantaged because of their lack of
access to sustainable resources to develop
the spirit, mind and body.
These areas need concentrated support to provide
the consistent fundamentals
of progress for the many and not
just the few.
5. Solution
Local youth lack adequate life skills:
Knowledge to grow their own food,
Stitch their own clothes and
Build their own structures
The Institute will offer a curriculum including
a leadership program that will assist in the
development of effective leaders for local
communities.
Our facility is conveniently located and has a district of
approximately 60,000.
6. Local Impact
The Institute’s effects will stretch into the
thousands as our sustainable design and
generational benefits promote not only
education, but employment, environmental
responsibility and social awareness to our
students and community.
By the people, for the people - this is the
Institute’s formula for true sustainability.
7. Green Initiative
The Institute is a Green Initiative Program.
Our curriculum, campus and policies will be built around preserving
the environment through educating our community about
sustainability and conservation through economic and social
development through:
• Harnessing natural resources using solar power and wind turbines
to generate electricity for the facility
• Using sources including underground tanks that collect rain water
from the rooftops and ocean water for our water supply
• A reverse osmosis unit will be able to treat well and ocean water
to be used for potable drinking as well as irrigation and agriculture
processing.
• Providing emergency supply of area villages if the existing
municipal water service is interrupted
• Recycling our residual wastes and construct a bio-chamber to
generate natural gas which will be used for heating and cooking
8. Self Contained Sustainability
Providing our students with the skills they need
while enabling the institute to be self sustaining through:
Our Agribusiness Program
that will provide education and management for the
orchards and gardens on the compound.
Our Agricultural Science Program
that will produce food primarily for the Institute campus
population along with surplus production that will be
processed and sold to balance Institute operations.
9. Symbiosis
Our educational program :
Trains our students on how to maximize
yields and improve growing techniques
Provides food and funds for campus and
faculty
In five years our fruit trees will be producing their first
harvests, which will generate sustainable commodities
for decades.
Various vegetables and medicinal herbs will be
harvestable within the first season.
10. Curriculum
Our curriculum will also offer courses in many areas
including
Natural Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and
Vocational Studies.
Natural Resource Management will focus on generating
power from wind, solar and bio chambers to exploiting
various sources of water for maximum efficiency.
Vocational Studies will focus on Electrical, Plumbing,
Carpentry, Welding and Auto Mechanic education.
Entrepreneurship will focus on small business development
and empowering students to create their own livelihoods.
Our Campus will include facilities where students can apply
theory to working, scientific models.
These courses are important for the region because
being in a rural community, expertise in these areas
will greatly support infrastructure for future
development in the coming generations.
11. Collaborating with Local
Businesses
We have a collaboration agreement with Tikur
Organic Farms, a for-profit agricultural business
located in our area, to provide an off-campus
work study program.
Students taught by professionals who also
participate with the agribusiness.
Mutual benefit - area youth who are trained in
the courses will have an established business to
work with, get paid and gain experience.
12. Exchange Program
Our student/teacher exchange program is
designed to co-ordinate Africans on the
continent with Africans in the Diaspora,
an important part of the cultural and
economic exchange that helps rebuild
African family and business relations.
A bursary program will facilitate financial
assistance students who need support to
attend.
13. Product Processing
The budget includes the purchase of processing
and storage machinery to allow our facility to
turn raw commodities into finished, export
quality products such as
Fresh frozen mango chunks
Organic, all natural sorbets and popsicles
Mango oil and butter
Dehydrated soups, vegetables and herbs
14. Product Sales
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In Ghana our sorbet popsicles will retail at the
same $1 range. Including processing and
distribution, we can deliver them to stores for 15
cents, sell at a wholesale rate of 70 cents and still
allow 45% mark-up for the suggested retail price.
There is a good potential for tourism outlets,
international businesses and growing foreign
populations that may offer even higher yields
opportunity.
15. Market
At present no substantial local-made
frozen fruit products exist, which means
we have the opportunity to introduce some
export quality frozen products to the local
market.
The funds from campus-produced
products will fund programs.
16. Did you know?
A crop of Organic Keitt Mangoes produce twice a year, so
a conservative estimate for a bi-annual yield would be
worth $85,000 at current market values after harvesting,
processing and delivery costs.
A projected $45,000 remains after operating expenses,
fees, salaries and overhead per year after the first 5-6
years from cultivation of raw fruit, which is projected to
increase as the trees mature. A ratio of 60 mango trees planted per
acre, 15 acres at 60 trees per acre will
yield 900 trees.
If market conditions continue their trends and
the investments are made according to plan, the
project will earn more than enough to sustain
its own operations.
17. Initial Planting
Generating cash crops will make the program
self-reliant. Grants will be used to initiate the
program and build the infrastructure. The first
product produced and first crop harvested will
put the program into production mode which, will
empower and create a new mindset for students
and their and communities.
Of the 25 acres we will acquire, 15 acres will
be planted with organic fruit trees,
vegetables and medicinal herbs, which will
provide nutrition and revenues for the HIM
Institute campus
18. Budget
Our budget for the total project equates to $500,000; the
following is a break-down of the fund allocation. This is a
Grant proposal and all funds will be deposited with the
H.I.M. Institute Foundation, this a 501 c (3) non-profit
company registered in California. The Foundation’s board
will allocate funds for the Institute development and related
programs governed by its own executive body.
19. Budget Breakdown
Purchase Of 35 Acres Arable Land And Fencing $150,000
25 Acres Of Fruit Trees $30,000
Refrigerated Container And Frozen Container $30,000
Industrial Machinery For Fruit Processing $25,000
Refrigerated Vehicle For Distribution $30,000
Construction Of Dormitories (10 Persons) $60,000
Construction Of Classrooms $50,000
Reverse Osmosis Water Purifier For The Well And Ocean $30,000
Salaries Including Security And Maintenance $30,000
Operating Expenses Such As Licenses And Fees $10,000
Construction Of Bio-Chamber To Recycle The Waste $10,000
Construction Of Factory Storage Shed $25,000
Well Digging And Installation $10,000
Operating Reserve And Miscellaneous Expenses $10,000
Total $500,000
20. Replication
The HIM Institute’s goal is to build a
sustainable program that can be replicated
in other African countries,
creating self-contained education facilities
that provide young people with the tools
that they need to survive and thrive while
creating a green energy platform that will
have a positive impact for generations to
come.
21. Team
Ras Selassie- C.E.O.- graduate from Howard University Business School,
B.B.A.- experience in agribusiness management, water resource
management and teaching.
Yaw Holdbrook- C.O.O.- graduate from Mamprobi Design- experience in
project management, clothing manufacturing and
agribusiness operations.
Pina Holdbrook- C.F.O.- graduate from TransAfrica College- Hospitality
Management- experience in accounting and strategic finance.
Musceo Hunt- Director- graduate from Howard University- International
Business- experience in social development, international sports
development and teaching.
Shannon Morrissey- Director- graduate from Berkeley Institute-
experience in mentorship, youth leadership programs and sports
management.
23. “…To build a modern a state requires the
concentrated strength and effort of each
one of you. If we do not build the roads,
the bridges and the schools, if we do not
plough the fields and till the soil, if we do
not carry on the trade and commerce of
the nation, to whom shall we look for the
accomplishment of these tasks?”
Emperor
Haile Selassie Ist
