Project Plan

Next step in the process ... 

1. Project idea

• realise CuraDura at Curaçao (make it happen)
• care for people (including myself) and Earth
• eat healthy, live healthy, experiment, share the abundance

2. Founder

Inge Maria (Leonora-)den Ouden, illustrator, certified energy savings advisor and permaculture designer (soon)

3. Place

• Curaçao, there where's room to realise it
• needed: shelter and land and the abundance nature and people offer
• a place accesible for all kind of people (and animals)
• developing into a permaculture food forest & educative centre (incl. eco-camp)

4. Product(s) and service(s)

• education / advice on permaculture and a healthy lifestyle; other courses / workshops; garden products; creative crafts products; gardening work
• trading (exchanging) and sharing
• colaboration with likeminded people

5. Market

• target audience: everyone who's willing / interested
• distribution: at the spot and elsewhere if there's room / transportation
• development of permaculture → more clients and more produce
• PR: mouth-to-mouth and internet; provide news for newsmedia

6. Co-operation

• encourage colaboration of existing organisations, like v-Ital, SOL, Koperativa Fresku i Orgániko
• 'each one teach one'

7. Human resoources

• who wants to join can do so whenever and in anyy way they want
• share the products together
• free and voluntarily
• at their own risk

8. Investment

I invest my strength, skills, commitment and knowledge (and curiousity) in this project

9. Finances

• basic principle: no money, only the existing abundance
• needed means: space (room / land), time, natural growth, 'waste material', fysical and emotional commitment
• in some cases it might be necessary to use money, to pay or get paid (preferably those two are in balance)

10. Planning for three years

• in three years: experiments are going on, the shelter is being built, there's rainwater catchment, the food forest is growing and producing, workshops (on healthy lifestyle), exchange markets and other activities are organised
• we do not use money, there's abundance

Practical steps:

• search for people who are willing to help (likeminded)
• search for land, provided by someone backing the project
• observe the place thoroughly, think over all possibilities, brainstorm with others
• keep all permaculture principles in mind
• use what's there and what you receive
• make good use of offered services and materials
• think of the best function(s) for the offered materials
• (re-)use as much as possible of the water, soil and materials
• make good use of wind and sun, but prevent their negative influences
• build the network of likeminded and positive people
• chances for all kind of people
• produce what's needed, based on what's available and possible
• quality over quantity
• don't do too much, let others do their part and colaborate
• see the positive side of 'failures' and 'mistakes'
• take a next step when needed / possible
• if needed adjust the plan

Plan originally written in Dutch 2016 Dec. 4-7, by Inge Leonora-den Ouden

Translated in English 2016 Dec. 30.