This is a practical model for ending global problems of starvation, social unrest in an environmentally sustainable way

1. presents

2. Village Solutions for
Global Problems

3. GSR has developed a low cost highly effective
way for building sustainable rural prosperity

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

5. It empowers communities to work
together to build their own prosperity

6. It is therefore ideal for village life

7. It heals the planet while empowering
universally inclusive prosperity
It is therefore potentially the
greatest business opportunity of
this century

8. GSR helps villages to incorporate as
businesses

9. The owners of the business are the
community members

10. the business plan of this village corporation is
designed and executed by the community, with
assistance from GSR’s highly trained design team

11. GSR partners with this village
corporation, and helps it market its
products, develop its economy

12. And integrate the production value
chain

13. GSR helps train farmers in low cost
permaculture techniques that enable
them to rapidly increase their income

14. Using amrut mitthi farming methods, it
is possible to produce as much as
$10,000 of produce per acre

15. This methodology makes it possible to
transform barren land…

16. Into fertile farmland (this is the same land as the
previous photograph five years later)

17. GSR’s “My Village Bank” provides startup financing
for a wide variety of cottage industries in the village

18. …such as construction materials,
carpets, furniture, soap and clothing

19. Community members will have to work very
hard, but they get great benefits. Everyone in
the community is guaranteed employment…
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20. … a beautiful home produced with
local materials and local labor,

21. plenty of nutritious cooked food,

22. health care, schools, job training, and
a rich cultural life

23. The quality of life for every family in a GSR village
project is equivalent to a lifestyle that might cost about
$40,000 per year in the city.

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This village centric solution
is a networkable model for
sustainable middle class
prosperity for the entire
planet

25. The first step towards empowering prosperity
for all of the people in an area
is building the first village of 5000 people. The
initial investment required is about $5 Million.

26. This includes design, infrastructure,
initial wages, and soil rehabilitation

27. Within five years, the village corporation should
have annual revenues of as much as $10 Million

28. Profits will help build the village economy and
also assist neighboring villages to begin the
same process

29. Once the original “anchor” village is
running smoothly, it will be possible to
build as many as 100 satellite village
projects for practically no cost.
This means that the
original investment of
$5 Million can build a
local economy with
revenues over $1
Billion within 10 years

30. How is this possible?
• Neighboring villages will be
excited to offer full cooperation
• Minimal labor costs ( they will
work for food)
• Free land
• Amrut mitthi materials are freely
available
• GSR Marketing team and Agro
trainers already existing
• GSR warehouses already existing
• GSR truck fleet already existing

31. GSR can help these villages begin their
development process on very limited budgets

32. by sharing existing warehousing and
distribution infrastructure…

33. …by training farmers in the new projects
how to use low cost Amrut mitthi
agriculture methods (which utilizes only
locally available materials),

34. And by mobilizing a good dose of sweat equity

35. Eventually these self funded satellite
projects will achieve the same level of
prosperity as the original project

36. Success in self funding village projects
will serve to open the floodgates of
tens of thousands of villages eager to
build their economies

37. Networks of prosperous self reliant
village economies will be able to
effectively network with each
other to develop strong local
economies

38. This means an end to poverty,
starvation and hopelessness for
millions of people – by their own
efforts.
There are no handouts in GSR!

39. That is why we call
“Self Empowerment of the Powerless”.