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.

How to contribute?

• Contribute Seeds to the program directly to @regenafrica1. All contributions are tracked here.
• If you'd like to find other ways to contribute, join the #regenerateafrica channel on the SEEDS Changemakers Discord and please introduce yourself.

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.

Accountability?

• We have close relationships with local project leaders, such as Paulinho Muzaliwa, Paulinho Muzaliwa, Mariam Antoine, Phelix Obar and Paul Kotieno, 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 Changemakers Program, of which they are all members, stewards the program and updates this wiki page to document their progress.
• Anyone can communicate with them directly through the #regenerateafrica channel on the SEEDS Changemakers Discord.

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.

Are nonprofits involved?

We are seeking nonprofit partners. By expanding this program through a 501c3 fiscal sponsor, people would have a place to send fiat contributions, also receiving tax deductions on their donations, and the program would be qualified to receive grants (foundations and corporate social programs typically only donate to 501c3s).

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. In the Isingiro district of South West Uganda, it is 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 onboarded 180 people into the SEEDS ecosystem, training 30 people in growing their own food through permaculture design and principles. They are growing their own gardens photos link|video link and inviting others to the SEEDS ecosystem.
• What SEEDS proposal was approved and when? Our Unidos Social Innovation Center proposal was approved in August 2021: proposal link. We aim to empower young refugees through appropriate training and teach them inclusive entrepreneurial skills that enable them to create their own opportunities, 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.
• 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: $1800: Five laptops at $210 each ($1050); $150 modem; $600/year cellular data plan

• What is Unidos’s purpose? Our purpose is to ensure that our refugees have a standard livelihood and quality education that enables them to create their opportunities and regenerative projects to establish self reliance and sovereignty.

• Why is Unidos doing this work? We can't solve our global challenges with our old mindset that exploits our home and continuously destroys all of us. Through our work, we can testify that these are the smartest people we ever meet when it comes to innovation, mutual learning, care, respect of the human beings. Sadly we don't have the adequate financial support and sensemaking tools to contribute to the regeneration of our mother Earth. We continue to measure the growth of our economies based on profit indicators that allow the destruction of our ecosystem. This is why we started planning how to measure the well being of our planet including all of its inhabitants. Let's rethink the system's values to catapult all of us into a better and sustainable future, 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? Unity, Innovation, transparency and respect.

• What is Unidos’s mission statement? 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 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 their projects will impact our communities and create opportunities not only for you but also for others. 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 the world how we are transforming 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 positive environment and paying forward what they have been learning.
  • Connect refugees with the other network which can support their initiatives( projects) in different ways.
  • Onboard refugees into the digital world and a regenerative cryptocurrency, like SEEDS.

• 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 completed our empowerment circle is able to design a project. We will be selecting and supporting 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)? A community-based organization (CBO).

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

Nakivale Updates

• February 12, 2022 - Paulinho purchases a laptop through this Regenerate Africa program to continue registering Nakivale residents into the SEEDS ecosystem (now that SEEDS doesn't require a smartphone to register). The community center in the background (completed November 2021) was also largely supported by the SEEDS community.

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.
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Contact: Phelix Odiwuor Obar
• What has your organization accomplished so far in SEEDS? We have 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

• What is Omosom’s purpose? To 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.

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

• What is Omosom’s mission statement? 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 (houses, latrines, water points), ferrying children to and from schools.

• 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:
  • 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? Facebook Page

Omosom Updates

• February 15, 2022 - Phelix purchases a laptop through this Regenerate Africa program to continue registering Kenyan residents into the SEEDS ecosystem (now that SEEDS doesn't require a smartphone to register).

SEEDS onboarding program and tree nursery, Homa Bay, Kenya

• Organization: Kotieno Community Project, Kenya
• Contact: Paul Kotieno
• 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 Onboarding Green World Promoters project shall invite 1300 people to SEEDS through training and tree nursery management.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: $1625: 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

• What is Kotieno’s purpose? Why is Kotieno doing this work? To restore mother earth and create a regenerative culture in Kenya.

• What are Kotieno’s values and/or principles? Our organisation is built on accountability, commitment, trust and integrity.

• What is Kotieno’s mission statement? To create a self-sustaining, sovereign regenerative community in Homabay County, Kenya.

• What does daily work look like? (What would a video camera be recording?) Tree planting, tree nursery operations and farm activities.

• What is Kotieno’s vision? Zero food shortage in the community and beyond.

• What are Kotieno’s primary and secondary goals?
  • Primary goals: Food production, proper hygiene, orphan support, and reviving the environment.
  • Secondary goals: Food supply in the community.

• How is Omosom and its projects regenerative? Please be specific in a way anyone reading this can easily understand how. Through the nursery, we plant trees to restore mother earth. Through farming, we create sufficient food for the community. By supporting the education of orphans, we build a bright future for the community. Through building latrines for the poor and needy, we ensure proper hygiene and environment conservation.

• Who is your female representative for this project? Stacy Mbadi

• 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: Kotieno Community Project
  • SEEDS campaign name: Onboarding Green World Promoters

• When was Kotieno created? February 2020

• How many volunteers contribute to the organisation? 7 people

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

• Is there a website or social media platforms? kotienocommunityproject.com

Omosom Updates

• February 15, 2022 - Kotieno purchases a laptop through this Regenerate Africa program to continue registering Kenyan residents into the SEEDS ecosystem (now that SEEDS doesn't require a smartphone to register).

Gift ledger

SEEDS Contributions to @regenafrica1
Contributor	Gift in Seeds	Designation (if any)	Fiat exchange
Unidos Social Innovation Center, Uganda	2000	Unidos Social Innovation Center, Uganda
Omosom Community Project, Kenya	2000	Omosom Community Project, Kenya
Kotieno Community Project, Kenya		Kotieno Community Project, Kenya
Chris	1000
Nadim	555
Reiki	333
buddhawangyi	5000
designskunks	5000
kanyancircle	5000
aliciaved	999
			200
			50
			50
Subtotal	22,287		300
Total			21,987
Goal			40,000

Fiat Contributions
Contributor	Gift in fiat	Designation (if any)	Fees
Melanie Bennett	$1000		$81
Individual donors	$30		$3
Subtotal	$1030		$84
Total			$946
Goal			$5000

Project accounting ledger

Unidos - Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Fund	Amount	Date	Notes
Winter 2022 crowdfunding campaign	$333	Feb 11, 2022
Expense	Amount	Notes
Laptop	$255	Feb 12, 2022	HP 820 500GB HDD Core i5 4GB RAM
Modem
Cellular data plan
Balance	$78

Omosom Community Project, Kenya
Fund	Amount	Date	Notes
Winter 2022 crowdfunding campaign	$333	Feb 11, 2022
Expense	Amount	Notes
Laptop	$247	Feb 15, 2022	Lenovo Ideapad 330 500GB HDD 4GB RAM
Modem	$18	Feb 15, 2022	XYFI Universal
Security software	$14	Feb 15, 2022	Kaspersky Antivirus
Cellular data plan	$20	Feb 16, 2022	30GB data Airtel Ke
Balance	$34

Kotieno Community Project, Kenya
Fund	Amount	Date	Notes
Winter 2022 crowdfunding campaign	$333	Feb 11, 2022
Expense	Amount	Notes
Laptop	$255	Feb 15, 2022	HP ProBook 640G1 500GB HDD 4GB RAM
Modem	$18	Feb 15, 2022	XYFI Universal
Security software	$14	Feb 15, 2022	Kaspersky Antivirus
Cellular data plan	$30	Feb 16, 2022	Blaze 25GB+ Free WhatsApp Data bundle. Expiry date: 19/03/2022
Balance	$16