Bunabumali 3.0

Recap from TimeDesk

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 years change. 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
• 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
  we start phase one of the Buna Medical center which is being supported with Firmc
  
  Library
  The Bunabumali Library is  officially working 
  
  Dormitory
  Children are now having Mattresses and bl anklets and we are now having 100 children staying
  
  School buildings
  Bunabumali project has now 25 Classrooms and Permanent Library and this year we are building 5 Rooms which are going to have Health & education facility with solar powered unit and water for children 
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  Energy
  Ben is working on a joint venture between Bunabumali and Victron Energy in Holland, providing state of the art, off grid energy infrastructure
  
  Food situation.
  Ocean bar in Cyprus provide much needed financial resources to secure food stock for the community
  
  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.