I am so happy to find myself in this company of this qualified community.
The posts in this forum are very good. Every single one of these is valuable and ought to be taken into account. I think individuals and institutions with a desire to invest, loan, or donate funds to help the marginalized populations, would do well to read this series of intelligent interventions based upon on-the-ground non-virtual real-world real-life experience. A potential donor should be recommended to digest material of this nature before being encouraged to offer to aid any third-worlders.
A grassroots initiative, defined beyond the framework of outside aid, will eventually be the one that takes the cake! The language of philanthropy and assistance needs to be defined by leaders of the civil society of the South
The top-down approach is NOT qualified to come up with any solution to the increasingly desperate situation rural Mexico has become with globalization Yet I feel sure that this is a prize that can be seized, if we are clever.
Fully-functional village-based cottage-industry direct-to-the-retailer; marketing via UPS and internet is what we bring, and offer it to other village artisan groups. There are no strings attached. On principle, we make available the Artisan Owned Direct Distribution Model (AODDM).
My advice for those who want to donate or invest in the Third-Worlders, is to look around and find some people you really like. Underwrite their acquisition of own-inventory so they can market products with their copy of the AODDM Shopping Cart and inclusion in global AODDM master sales systems.
The AODDM does not want or need any donation or investment, because it is a profitable operation in its own right based on the transformation of raw materials by skilled village labor into valuable products for retail niches
Where an investor with good intentions finds some people he or she loves, a Social Enterprise Financial Instrument may be issued to support the local artisans production of its stock inventory ability to direct-sell products.
http://www.artcamp.com.mx/AODDM/SEFI/ Social Enterprise Financial Instrument (SEFI)
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