One Minute Project to Reach Mandela

A Sustainable Poverty Eradication model that needs Mandela's help.

The Noble Failure

Professor Muhammed Yunus has helped millions of people break out of poverty, winning a Nobel Peace Prize in the process. Yet he considers himself a failure. Today there are 2.2 billion people earning less than two dollars a day, and Yunus is desperate to help them.

We have a solution, and we need your help.

Imagine the millions of impoverished people learning a skill so powerful and valuable that they can improve their living conditions; create an income, and ultimately break out of poverty – with or without charity. The world today is powered by microchips, and businesses are hungry for people with these skills. Our model uses technology to empower the underprivileged with these skills, creating interest from businesses.

This niche skill or talent will be useful for businesses to grow profits so that businesses have a reason to want to put some of these profits back into helping poor.

A working model in Kyrgystan is showing great success. We have microcredit. We have the hungry businesses. We have the technology. All we need is your help.

URGENCY

Why are we desperate? We are desperate because we want to tell Mr Mandela we have evidence in Kyrgyzstan of a sustainable method to fight against poverty. However we may be running out of time to reach him because he is now 90! To our horror we saw on television Mr Mandela required help to stand up to speak when he celebrated his 90th year birthday in a fund raising concert with his rock star friends in London a few weeks ago.

Everybody knows he has great and loyal friends who can help to raise funds to fight against poverty.

We want to tell Mr Mandela about the Kyrgyzstan project ASAP so that he can tell his friends to verify the Kyrgyzstan project and raise money to expand the project to help the hundreds of millions of poor people.

As we all now know this great opportunity may be lost if Mr Mandela passed on without alerting his great and loyal friends in the world about the solution to help the underprivileged people!

Please contact me at arixrobotics at gmail dot com with your ideas to reach Mr Mandela!

Updates, Updates, Updates

I apologize for not posting any updates about the team's progress since their trip to WCIT2008 any earlier.

1. WCIT2008 Outcomes
The trip had been a very good one, as they've met with various people from all sorts of organizations. This includes K-Perak, MIMOS, Petrosains, and the Ministry of Women, Family & Community Development. These organizations have agreed to play their part in ensuring the success of this noble and unique project.

2. Looking for a representative from IIUM
Currently, we are working on a few sub-projects within Australia, Malaysia and a few other places aroud the world. One of them is to connect to the Noble Peace Prize winner Prof Yunus, famous for his Grameen Bank microfinancing.

As such, we are looking for a representative from the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM). If you are or know someone who is studying in IIUM, and is interested to join the fight against poverty, please contact me at arixrobotics at gmail dot com. This person will be our lead to Prof Yunus.

3. Smart Chip Energy Saving Show Case Project
eLabtronics, the company behind the revolutionary software CoreChart, will be holding a Smart Chip Energy Saving Show Case Project during the Australian National Science Week in August. The activity will involve primary and secondary school children, their teachers, as well as university students and retired engineers in a hands-on 4 day project to design and build working prototype models that best articulate how smart microchips are used to save electricity in homes.

This is your chance to see for yourself the power of CoreChart in practice. Or, if you are interested to become a participant yourself (or your child), you can contact Miro at miro at elabtronics dot com to see whether they have any more room left.

The project will be held on the 2nd (Sat) to 5th (Tue) of August 2008 at The Pacific Cultures Gallery of the South Australian Museum (SAM). If you care about the environment and have an interest in science and electronics, this is the project for you!

4. Blog Visitors, Comments Please!
Although I have not been updating this blog for some time, I noticed that there seem to be new people visiting this site all the time. This really surprises me.

Wheater you are new or coming back, I would love to know what's in your mind. So please leave a comment. I really appreciate that. Thank you.