1. “A life not lived in the service of others is a life not worth living.” -Albert Einstein “One or two other inspirational quotes” -Someone Awesome Bridges to Goodness: Human Infrastructure Development Initiative Bayelsa

2. Presentation Overview Bayelsa Today Bridges to Goodness: a Social Business Public Private Partnership (PPP) Human Infrastructure Micro-Infrastructure Innovative Development Strategies Plan of Action Projections and Deliverables

3. Room to Grow Some Stylized Facts About Nigeria: 149,229,090 people. 8th largest country in the world Life expectancy at birth: 46.8 years Median age of 19 years GDP of $207.1 billion $2,300 per capita 64% of population lives on less than USD $1.25/day

4. The Broken Pencil Syndrome The State has: - An older generation of greater capacity than the current, younger, generation - A replacement generation that has a totally dysfunctional approach to development and community life - Challenges of values and social infrastructure - Constraints in the physical environment that impact negatively on morals and group mobilization.

5. Current Institutions Unfit to Meet the Needs of Bayelsan Citizens Evidence: Illiterate Secondary School Graduates Hospitals without Doctors or Medicine Rampant Unemployment of the Willing

6. Current Institutions Unfit to Meet the Needs of Bayelsan Citizens Evidence: Implications: Illiterate Secondary School Graduates Hospitals without Doctors or Medicine Rampant Unemployment of the Willing Teachers, illiterate themselves, unable teach youth generation. Funding, lost in bureaucracy, never reaches target recipients. Deteriorated Social Contracts Unsustainable Status Quo

7. Social Enterprise As a Social Enterprise, Bridges to Goodness Projects: Is Benefit Maximizing, not Profit-Maximizing. Uses Profits to Further Humanitarian Agenda. Addresses Public Sector Needs with Private Sector Effectiveness, placing emphasis on: Efficiency, Innovation, Accountability, and Professionalism.

8. Superiority of Private-Sector Privately-Run Development Projects are characterized by: Efficiency Expediency Private Enterprises are: Results Oriented Independent Government-Run Development Projects are traditionally: Inefficient Slow moving NGO’s tend to be too: Action Oriented Donor Dependent

9. Bridges to Goodness Projects and Bayelsa State: A Public Private Partnership (PPP) Bridges to Goodness works: - As a Benefit-Driven Social Enterprise - In the best interest of the State of Bayelsa and its people - With efficiency, expediency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability Bayelsa State chooses to allocate funds: - to a project that will Directly Benefit Its People - to a completely transparent project Photo by Maschinenraum

10. The Bridges to Goodness Projects Vision: Rural Bayelsans equipped with the tools and capacity to engage, Compete and thrive in the 21st century global environment. Human Infrastructure The Most Important Resource of any nation is Its People. Natural Resources to not bring about progress and development. The level of development or under-development of a nation is Directly Proportional to the level of Development of its People. Development projects that focus only on large-scale infrastructure are fundamentally flawed.

11. “The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops- no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19thCentury American Visionary

12. What we need is: A ‘Marshall Plan’ for Human Infrastructure. A Two Pronged Intervention targeting: - Literacy -Character Development A Critical Junction in Bayelsan History * To do nothing, now, is to turn our backs on current and future generations of Bayelsan Citizens.

13. Developmental Assets Teaching: Honesty Integrity Self-Respect Hard-Work Self-Reliance Through: Literacy Curriculum Sports and other Youth Programs To: Improve Values Develop individuals capable of success

14. Partnering with Every Community We are not building something for the community, dropping something off, giving something away. We are creating a partnership with each and every community, so that we may build something beautiful together.

15. Singing in the Streets Bringing Joy Back to the Communities Immediately Improving Quality of Life Attaching new meanings to learning, Reconstructing social norms Creating Excitement for Development to Come

16. Micro-Infrastructure Delivering infrastructure on the scale utilizable on the community level The Perfect Compliment to the large-scale state run Infrastructure Projects Already Underway An Innovative, Comprehensive and Sustainable approach that will Revolutionize Rural Development.

17. Micro-InfrastructureWe’ll put the community center flow that Jessica makes here.

18. Health 170,000 Nigerians die of AIDS annually, third most in the world Infant Mortality rate: 97.2 per 1,000 live births Food or waterborne diseases: Bacterial andProtozoal Diarrhea Hepatitis A and E Typhoid Fever Vectorbornedisease: Malaria Yellow Fever Respiratory disease: Meningococcal Meningitis Water contact Disease: Leptospirosis Shistosomiasis Each Community Center will: -Be visited regularly by Health Specialists -Trained in First Aid -Supplied with Medicines, Preventative and Curative -Have access to clean water.. -Show specially created Health Educational DVDs. The health impacts will be Profound, Immediate and Enduring

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22. Specific Software Skills Aimed at Employability

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25. Effective Internet Usage

27. Financial Assistance and Planning Ultimate Goal = Increase Incomes Accomplished through: - Classes on the basics of Business and Finance - Meeting Directly with Families to Develop Unique Financial Strategies - Addressing the Family Unit as a Business Looking at: -Inputs and Outputs -Comparative Advantage -Economic Opportunities, Short and Long-Term -Human and Physical Capitol Investments -Co-ops and other innovative cost saving mechanisms

29. Scalability The Micro-Infrastructure system is fully scalable. The Community Center model is easily modified to adapt to smaller populations. Within 5 years, there will be a Community Center within 30 minutes walking of every Bayelsan in the state. Every town, village and hamlet will feel the impact and reap the benefits of this project.

31. Distrust

32. SubversionDeveloping the Niger Delta Region, one encounters challenges of: Which is why, Bridges to Goodness is Dedicated to Creating Sustainable Relationships. This is done by: -Keeping Commitments -Giving the Community Ownership By means of: - Involving the Community in the Building Process - Shifting paradigms - Micro-fills - Volunteer Interaction

33. Micro-fills Cleaning up Communities Changing the meanings of living spaces Mobilizing volunteer support Building trust Changing Paradigms Responsibility Working in the interest of the community New Technology Western waste management systems Division of compost and non-biodegradable waste

36. Mobilize and Organize Working With, not against, Existing Social Institutions. Development Centers CDC Chairpersons Clan Heads Paramount Rulers Schools Grassroots, Bottom-Up Strategies Recruiting Volunteer Labor Making Relationships Early-On, And Sustaining Them Following through on every single commitment

37. Intelligent Design with Long-Term Vision Everything we create is designed with Efficiency, Sustainability and Functionality in mind: Community Center Structure Micro-fill Organizational Structure Professional Support Network Summits

38. Constant ReinforcementA Structure for Sustainability Intricate network of trained professionals, vertically and horizontally organized Ongoing training Weekly at community level Community Center Team Teachers Once per two months regionally State-wide twice annually

39. Coming together for a common goal

42. 3 Senatorial Roads > N100 BillionInvestments in Human Development have a self-perpetuating, organically growing impact Every dollar spent on Human and Micro-Infrastructure comes back to the state 1,000 fold in the long-term.

44. Deliverables and Projections:A Comprehensive Look Forward Immediate: Before Even Breaking Ground Short Term: 1-2 Years Medium Term: 2-5 Years Long Term: 6+ Years

45. Immediate Deliverables Drastic Improvements in Literacy State-wide Shifting Paradigms: Character Development Waste Management

46. Short-Term Deliverables 51% of the Nigerian population lives in urban areas, number increasing at 3.8% annually. Community Centers will create meaningful Employment in rural areas, Reversing Brain Drain and Slowing Urbanization: Community Center Staff, Waste Management, Security, State and Regional Reps, Teachers, Youth Organizers. Construct a Reliable Network that can be used for Future Projects, and the Dissemination of Information, political and otherwise Access to Electricity, Internet, Financial Services and Education: (Health, Literacy, Vocation, Computer Literacy, Business)

47. Medium-Term Deliverables Substantial Improvements in Every Health indicator Giant Leaps in Education Creation of Jobs Increases in Family Incomes 100% Literacy for the Coming Generation

48. Long-Term Deliverables Bridges to Goodness will Design and Create the Mechanisms Necessary for: Industrial Centers to Emerge Around the Vocations of Each Community Center in Bayelsa. Bayelsa State Will Emerge As: An Economic Leader in Nigeria The Global Leader in Innovative and Successful Development Strategies.

49. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr The Right Strategy. Working from Bottom-Up All that is left to put everything in motion: * A Top-Down Blessing*