Regenerate Africa

Regenerate Africa is a regenerative ecosystem campaign in Africa through the SEEDS Changemakers Program and the SEEDS community. It is in partnership with hyper-local SEEDS projects in Uganda and Kenya. It’s purpose is to co-create hyper-local models of regenerative culture and civilization, utilizing the SEEDS and Partnerism cultural and economic platform.

Why?

1. It provides a way for those with a significant amount of Seeds to make a significant impact in regenerative projects - today - leveraged by the SEEDS community and its programs.
2. It provides developing countries/underestimated bioregions with the resources they need now that Seeds simply can't buy, like a community computer, projector, and internet data to participate in this Discord forum and learn about SEEDS through the videos 30 people at a single sitting.
3. It allows those in SEEDS that want to build relationships with those in these underestimated bioregions the ability to do so for the first time. Right now they can't even participate in the video calls because internet access is three day's pay.

How?

1. Three projects in underestimated bioregions in Uganda and Kenya state what they've already done in SEEDS, what they're going to do, why they're limited, what they need, and the expenses they need covered in fiat in order to grow the SEEDS ecosystem by hundreds of participants.
2. We are hosting a traditional crowdfunding campaign starting in a week or so, to raise $10,000 USD fiat. We will provide rewards for $1000+ contributions with matching Seeds value (10,000 Seeds for every $1000 donated).
3. We are hosting 100,000 Seed seedraising campaign to provide those rewards.

Accountability?

We have close relationships with Paulinho Muzaliwa, Paulinho Muzaliwa, Mariam Antoine, Phelix Obar and Kotieno Paul, all native Africans, all of whom have spent hundreds of hours supporting SEEDS in their community, and their limited resources on SEEDS calls. The SEEDS Changemaker program, of which they are all members, will oversee the program and provide a permanent wiki documenting their progress with these contributions. They will also have permanent Discord channels for each of their projects in the Changemaker Discord, so people can ask questions, be updated directly.

Project recipient requirements

• An approved SEEDS proposal
• At least one female project representative in the SEEDS Changemakers Program from the project bioregion.
• Completion of the Partnerism course hosted by the SEEDS Changemakers Program.

How is this regenerative?


We are exchanging $10,000 in fiat for 100,000 newly circulated Seeds resulting in growing the SEEDS ecosystem by hundreds of people in countries where the impact is the greatest.

Are nonprofits involved?

Not yet, this is a pilot program to include them. By expanding this program through a 501c3 fiscal sponsor, people would then receive tax deductions on their donations, and the program would be qualified to receive grants (foundations and corporate social programs typically only donate to 501c3s).

How can I help?


We’ll be launching this at the end of the year. Be part of its co-creation and stewardship at the #regenerate-africa channel in the Changemaker Discord.

Projects

SEEDS education at Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• Organization: Unidos Social Innovation Center, Uganda - A refugee-led organization that supports marginalized at-risk youth in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement Isingiro district South West Uganda, home to 119,587 refugees from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan.
• Contact: Paulinho Muzaliwa, Mariam Antoine
• What has your organization accomplished so far in SEEDS? We have been able to train so far 30 people how to grow their own food by applying to the permaculture design and principles and onboard them in the SEEDS ecosystem Now they are growing their gardens https://www.instagram.com/unidossocialcenter/p/CV-2yzCIGz9/ and keep on inviting other more people to SEEDS ecosystem here you can see through these links https://youtu.be/AAP7P6hUBrM we are more than 180 people (Visitors, Residents and Citizens) https://www.facebook.com/Projectunidos/
• What SEEDS proposal was approved and when? We aim to empower young refugees through appropriate training and teach them inclusive entrepreneurial skills that enable them to create their own opportunities. Our goal is to transform these young refugees into changemakers. Our goal is to educate 100 people who will be able to support 1000 participants in the SEEDS ecosystem. Proposal link
• Why we need help: People do not have the resources for smartphones, or even community laptops, to open and monitor SEEDS accounts, and to participate in the global SEEDS ecosystem calls and educational offerings.
• Request: Five laptops at $210 each ($1050); $150 modem; $600/year cellular data plan = $1800
• Link for more info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18JNiPGH6yMsJ7YrjfvgsNSEZmNsflvntDXe1z1Yb_cU

• What is Unidos’s purpose? Our purpose is to ensure that refugees have a standard livelihood;quality education that enable them to create their opportunities and regenerative projects that will make them self self reliance

• Why is Unidos doing this work? We realize that we can't solve our grand global challenges with our old mindset that exploits our home and continuously destroys all of us. Through our work in the Nakivale refugee settlement, we can testify that these are the smartest people we ever meet when it comes to innovation, mutual learning, care, respect of the humans being. Sadly we don't have the adequate tools; financial support and the most not be part of these sense making conversation passing online to contribute to the regeneration of our mother Earth. We continue to measure the growth of our economies with indicators that continue to destroy our precious and vital ecosystem. This is why we started planning how to measure the well being of our planet including all of its inhabitants instead of just measuring the profit. Let's rethink the system value to catapult all of us into a better and sustainable future. How about creating new metrics that represent access to quality education, clean water, nutritious and healthy food, and thriving biodiversity.

• What are Unidos’s values and/or principles?

• What is Unidos’s mission statement? Our primary mission is to empower young refugees through appropriate training and teach them inclusive entrepreneurial skills that will enable them to create their own opportunities after achieving their empowerment circle (see image).

• What does daily work look like? (What would a video camera be recording?) We have daily sessions that our certified beneficiaries and scholars offer through different programs that will enable us to reach our vision. Examples are four-month courses in permaculture design and entrepreneurship and leadership skills, to support our empowerment circle and ensure your projects will bring great impact to the communities and create opportunities not only for you but also for other people. We actually need a video camera to record testimonies of all these activities, and make sure everyone will be heard when it is time to create a better future for everyone, no matter the place you are, and show to the world how we are turning our difficult situation into successful stories.

• What is the Unidos’s vision? Transforming refugee camps into regenerative communities where everyone will be self sustainable.

• What are the org’s primary and secondary goals?
  • Transforming these young refugees into changemakers who will drive sustainable development goals and encourage peace.
  • Provide quality education to refugees and equip them with adequate tools that will enable them to learn in a good environment and pass to action of what they have been learning.
  • Connect refugees with the other network which can support their initiatives( projects) in different ways.
  • Familiarize refugees with digital world and technology like cryptocurrency like SEEDS and other to also let them explore online opportunities

• How is Unidos and its projects regenerative? Please be specific in a way anyone reading this can easily understand how. After capacity building we assume that every scholar who finished to our empowerment circle is able to design a project that will be selecting and support at least four projects per year based on their impact measurement - how many people this project will be empowering by providing different opportunities; job creation and their innovation.

• Who is your female representative for this project? Mariam Antoine

• What kind of organization is Unidos (nonprofit/NGO, DHO, informal group)? Community-based organization

• Please explain the differences between the org name, SEEDS campaign names, project names: Unidos Social Innovation Center is the name of the organization, and the name of the SEEDS Proposal.

• When was it created? 2018

• How many volunteers contribute to the organisation? 8 people

• What is the entity that is receiving the funds?

• Is there a website or social media platforms?
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

SEEDS education in the schools, Kenya

• Organization: Omosom Community Project, Kenya - A nonprofit supporting orphans, aged widows and the less fortunate in the field of regenerative education and agriculture.
• 
Contact: Phelix Odiwuor Obar
• What has your organization accomplished so far in SEEDS? Onboarded 80 Visitors, 14 Residents and 6 Citizens in SEEDS.
• What SEEDS proposal was approved and when? The Impact of a Single Drop of Seeds in School, approved by the SEEDS community November? 2021 for 166,900 Seeds. The project will onboard 460 stakeholders in the school system to the SEEDS ecosystem over four lunar cycles. Proposal link
• Why we need help: Only 7 out of the 460 participants we are focusing on have smartphones, and they cannot afford internet access.
• Request: $1125: $630 desktop, $65 modem, $430/year cellular internet
• Link for more info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vo-V5EcRVvukx88IlAVqPPMroUI_beeCauhfkIgUxiU

• What is Omosom’s purpose? Serve the orphans, widows and aged.

• Why is Omosom doing this work? Deaths due to uncontrolled diseases leave children and widows with no one to take care of them,old people fall in the same track when their potential family member who can support them dies. We do this to prevent social crimes that come as a result of poverty. We need to raise their living standards up.

• What are Omosom’s values and/or principles? Integrity, honesty, trust, commitment and accountability.

• What is Omosom’s mission statement? Dedicated to uplift the livelihood of the orphans, widows and aged through provision of basics, education, health care.

• What does daily work look like? (What would a video camera be recording?) We carry out a number of daily activities including operations on our organisation farms, guidance and counseling sessions, construction of structures eg houses,latrines, water points, ferrying children to and from schools among others.

• What is Omosom’s vision? A world of hope,tolerance and social justice,where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity despite where they come from.

• What are Omosom’s primary and secondary goals?
  • Primary goals: Basic needs, Education and health care for orphans, food and shelter for widows and aged.
  • Secondary goals: Protection, improvement and conservation of nature.

• How is Omosom and its projects regenerative? Please be specific in a way anyone reading this can easily understand how. We produce food for consumption without destroying the planet, and fight against diseases that would cause death to many. Participate in regenerative practices like planting of trees.

• Who is your female representative for this project? Achieng Jambita

• What kind of organization is Unidos (nonprofit/NGO, DHO, informal group)? Nonprofit CBO (community-based organization)

• Please explain the differences between the org name, SEEDS campaign names, project names: Unidos Social Innovation Center is the name of the organization, and the name of the SEEDS Proposal.
  • Organization: Omosom Community Project (OCP)
  • SEEDS campaign name: The Impact of a Single Drop of SEEDS in School (imbojuniorac)

• When was it created? January 2019

• How many volunteers contribute to the organisation? 10 people

• What is the entity that is receiving the funds? Equity Bank of Kenya

• Is there a website or social media platforms? Website creation in progress

SEEDS onboarding program and tree nursery, Kenya

• Title: Kotieno Community Project, Kenya
• Contact: Kotieno Paul
• What has your organization accomplished so far in SEEDS? We have onboarded 79 Visitors, 25 Residents and 10 Citizens in SEEDS.
• What SEEDS proposal was approved and when? The project shall invite 1300 people through training and nursery management. The Onboarding Green World Promoters will onboard 1300 people through training and tree nursery management is currently up for vote until January 2, 2022: Proposal link
• Why we need help: Most people in this community do not have access to SEEDs either due to lack of smartphones or internet, or both. One laptop can be used for access and participation in SEEDS, and will enable our community to:
  • Open and monitor accounts for the participants.
  • Participate in SEEDS and its Changemaker program.
  • Educate children about SEEDS to prepare them for future engagement.
  • Attend virtual meetings collectively and efficiently.
  • Type and print documents, manage community records
• Request: Laptop, HP Notebook 15 Core i7 8GB 512GB SSD 15.6 Win 10 $940; Modem - Combos High Speed Universal, $55; VAT (value added tax) $150; Internet data bundle for one year: $480 = $1625
• Link for more info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pC3g39ZuoZRFb1mfHMDhbVp_Yf0Kd6l5a-iO5ksz08Y

Gift Ledger

SEEDS Contributions
Contributor	Gift in Seeds	Designation (if any)
Total
Goal	100,000

Fiat Contributions
Contributor	Gift in fiat	Designation (if any)
Total
Goal	$10,000

Project accounting ledger

Unidos - Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Fund	Amount	Notes
Winter 2022 crowdfunding campaign
Expense	Amount	Notes
Laptop (5@$210 each)
Modem
1-year cellular data plan
Total