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This is a project that began as a dream related to the omidyar.net members conference in Gulu, Uganda in February of 2007.

A foundational component of this project is building an emotionally and spiritually supportive community that helps children grow personally, while at the same time learning through working on routine group tasks and projects that benefit the entire community group. To begin this deep community building process, a year-long series of workshops will be held at Opok Farm (as soon as the infrastructure included in this proposal is in place to host them) to help participants learn how to listen deeply and speak lovingly to help each other deal with the personal challenges they have faced in their short lives. At least 60 households of orphans will be invited to participate, along with targeted groups of adults.

The intended result of this time spent together will be a cohesive social group of people who intentionally decide to build a residential village and community school at Opok Farm together, on land that is allocated for that purpose. The human community that forms through shared workshop experiences will have autonomy over how and when to build what on the Opok Farm land that is allocated for that purpose.

Our first challenge in forging the community of Ugandans who will develop their own joint priorities and visions for the village they will build, is to provide the basic infrastructure that can enable that process to begin. Our proposal for using the $10,000 grant addresses the following immediate project needs for enabling Ugandans in the project target groups to spend time working together at the site.

* $3,000 will provide water treatment to purify water from an existing source on the farm.
* $3,000 will provide for group sleeping facilities.
* $2,000 will provide for the building of sanitary facilities.
* $2,000 will provide for materials to have Cory Richardson build a bamboo and canvas dome to act as a multipurpose meeting structure.

All of this work will be photo documented in the group space here and there will be fully disclosed, transparent accounting for the expenditure of each penny of the funding.

Planning the Opok Farms project is a global grassroots collaboration that involves input from a number of people from around the world who have connected around this project through a number of online platforms including Razoo.com, Ned.com, facebook.com and Omidyar.net:

* Linda Nowakowski in Thailand is involving a group of Ubon Ratchathani University students with with experience in Buddhist economics and Sufficiency Economy Philosophy to participate in community building workshops at Opok Farm.
* Cory Richardson from Canada hopes to guide the construction of a bamboo dome to serve as a multi-purpose community meeting space at Opok Farms.
* David Bale in the UK is helping to research eco-tourism development possibilities
* John Powers in the USA is providing research and ideas on urban planning and housing construction techniques
* Christina Jordan in Uganda is the Director of Life in Africa - a 400+ member community of families in Kampala and Gulu, the majority of which are directly affected by Northern Uganda's war. (Christina's Ugandan husband owns Opok Farm).

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