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Jon Skinner, Bulembu
The document discusses the challenges facing Swaziland, including high rates of HIV/AIDS, poverty, and population growth. It then summarizes the work of Challenge Ministries in transforming the community of Bulembu, Swaziland through establishing various social services and income-generating enterprises. These enterprises include a timber operation, dairy, honey, bakery, and water projects, all of which were profitable in 2011 and help fund child care and education programs. The overall goal is to build a self-sustaining community through these combined social and economic development efforts.
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Jon Skinner, Bulembu
- 1. Transforming communities andchanging lives
- 2. Swaziland Vision •Bulembu •Restoration •Self-sustaining •Emerging leaders
- 4. •Population 1 million • Challenge Ministries •Average Age 18 • Challenge Ministries •Pop Growth Rate -0.41% •Life Expectancy 32 •Highest AIDS Rate in the world 43% •Living Below Poverty Line 70% • This nation will cease to exist by 2050 Swaziland Statistics
- 5. Swaziland: HIV Schools hardest Swaziland: A patients ‘eat hit by Swazi debt kingdom in crisis dung to make crisis drugs work’ “The UN Global Many schools forced A generation of Fund has no to close due to orphans - 15 year more money” teachers not paid. olds are responsible for homes.
- 6. Education and LifeSkills Medical Care The Children’s Homes Bulembu’s Transformation
- 7. Bulembu School –transforming lives
- 8. Community Community Enterprise Care = +
- 12. Projected Operating Costs------ Child Care Sponsorship Program ---------Projected Industry Income
- 13. We are developing 5 Community Timber Enterprise schemes Bulembu Country Lodge Dairy Honey Bakery Water
- 14. Timber 2011 netprofit: £231,000
- 15. We are developing 5 Community Timber Enterprise schemes Bulembu Country Lodge Dairy Honey Bakery Water
- 16. Dairy 2011 netprofit: £16,000
- 17. We are developing 5 Community Timber Enterprise schemes Bulembu Country Lodge Dairy Honey Bakery Water
- 18. Honey 2011 netprofit £14,000
- 19. We are developing 5 Community Timber Enterprise schemes Bulembu Country Lodge Dairy Honey Bakery Water
- 20. Bulembu Country Lodgeand Conference Centre 2011 net profit: £30,000
- 21. We are developing 5 Community Timber Enterprise schemes Bulembu Country Lodge Dairy Honey Bakery Water
- 22. Bakery 2011 netprofit: £4,000
- 23. We are developing 5 Community Timber Enterprise schemes Bulembu Country Lodge Dairy Honey Bakery Water
- 24. Water 2011 netprofit: £54,000
- 25. Community Community Enterprise Care = +
- 26. Experience Transformation THANK YOUHope Lives Here Freedom is Found Here Changed Lives Leave Here
Editor's Notes
- #2 Good afternoon, Bulembu and Challenge Ministries Swaziland have a unique relationship that is producing hope for a nation and life for a town called Bulembu …
- #3 ... Our Vision is to restore Bulembu, a derelict mining town, into a vibrant self-sustaining community by the year 2020 and to nurture a new generation of leaders. Take a look at this short clip that communicates the desperate situation facing the Swazi people but the hope that Bulembu offers ...
- #5 Swaziland is faced with a dreadful plight – a child population with no hope, no parental care and living on less than a dollar a day …
- #6 ... Even local and international press report this as a desperate situation – a nation in crisis with no effective leadership and the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroying the social and commercial heart of the nation ...
- #7 … But there is hope – through the community care that Challenge Ministries is delivering: from the education of 500 young people; to the unique model of a town’s rehabilitation, through our self-sustainable business programmes in Bulembu – a story of successful transformation is emerging ...
- #8 … Community care comes at a price. It costs to take a school from dereliction where cows once lived to a vibrant place of education! …
- #9 … in Bulembu, we are financing Community care, by establishing sustainable community enterprise, successfully transforming the Bulembu community …
- #10 … The plan is to achieve sustainability through a balanced programme of growth in community care…
- #11 ... A Sustainable environment can support more orphaned and vulnerable children ...
- #12 ... Bulembu by 2020 can sustain 1000 children through this kind of transformation and impact the nation of Swaziland ...
- #13 Currently the income from our business program is below our operating costs. So as a temporary measure to supplement income, to ease the burden on the businesses and help us achieve our goal of sustainability by 2020, we are also using a child sponsorship programme …
- #14 Eventually our 5 established and successful businesses will finance the community care. Currently Timber …
- #15 ... Through clearing, developing and harvesting plantation trees produces a solid - £231,000 ...
- #16 A dairy of 80 cows …
- #17 ... being milked in what was the old Golf Clubhouse, provides milk to our 350 children and generates a cool £16,000 ...
- #18 … our honey production …
- #19 ... Building hives on cleared land provides a sweet £14,000 ...
- #20 … the Bulembu Country Lodge and Conference Centre …
- #21 ... we transformed, with the help of the architect Murray Bell of TBN, into a Conference and Hospitality Training Centre that opened last year. 50 students have already graduated, with 70% now in full-time employment in leading Swazi hotels – delivering £30,000 ...
- #22 … our bakery …
- #23 ... Rising from ashes of the old butchery providing a variety of goods, one of which is a tasty £4000 ...
- #24 … and finally, our water business …
- #25 ... Quenching the thirst of a growing cliental and running at a fresh £54,000 ....
- #26 … This unique Bulembu story is happening; our community enterprise is covering almost 50% of our community care needs and also has a hidden social value, in training and job creation providing an income for over 500 Swazi families – re-birth has begun – this is transformation in action …
- #27 ... I hope you have enjoyed the Bulembu story, please visit me on the stand, there are some exciting opportunities, thank you.