If you don't know by now, I am the founder of Humanitas World Wide an emerging Humanitarian Organization powered by the Republic of Zaadz.

One of our goals is to get men and women in developing countries started operating their own businesses. Our focus is on Honduras at the present time. Many of the women and girls in Honduras work in clothing factories, producing the clothing we all see for sale at Target and Wal Mart. Next time you are in the store, have a look at the label and I'm sure you'll eventually see "Made in Honduras". The sad thing is the people that are employed by these factories get paid very poorly, quite literally no more than $1.50 or so a day.

I have been developing a Solar Power Station that I hope will be able to power up a home (we must remember that a "home" in Honduras may be a single room no bigger that 12 X 20 feet) and provide enough power to allow a person to have a home based business and start earning real money.

I am beginning to understand more about electricity than I ever thought I needed to know. The solar power station I have built is an 18 watt, 1.2 amp system with a 26 Amp Hour battery and a 300 Watt power inverter. The inverter is what changes the 12 volts DC to 110 volts AC so you can operate anything within reason; laptop PC, Desk Lamp, Radio. Air Conditioning and a refrigerator would need more power.

I just looked at the back of my Brother Sewing Machine and saw good news.

On the back of the machine is says the machine only draws 0.7 Amps. Now it's time to translate this into plain English.

• The Solar Panel delivers 1.2 Amps of power to the battery, or 1,200 milliamps.
  
• The Brother Sewing Machine draws 0.7 or 700 milliamps when in actual use.
  

This means that the solar panel is still delivering almost twice as much power to the battery, that the sewing machine will pull out of it. This means that a man or woman in Honduras could have their own micro clothing factory in the comfort of their own home.

This Brother Sewing machine is about $400.00 retail and my solar system as it stands was less than $400.00. Toss in a few incidentials to go with the machine and we can put someone in business for about $1,000.00

I like that...I like that very much.

In the vast migration that is changing the US, a Honduran boy rides a freight through Mexico. Each year thousands of undocumented Central Americans stow away for 1,500 miles on the tops and sides of trains. Some are parents desperate to escape poverty. Many are children in search of a parent who left them behind long ago. Only the brave and the lucky reach their goal.

2003 Pulitzer Prize winner Don Bartletti traveled with these kids, documenting thier journey through Guatamala and Mexico in search of their parents who left them behind to find a better life in the USA. Poverty is the norm in Honduras. Most adults have little or no education and few marketable skills, yet they come anyway, hoping for a dream to grasp onto.

Things can be different in Honduras. Our government is doing little to help. They are spending a billion dollars a week in Iraq. We can Change the World in Honduras and Africa and other places where suffering and death are assured on a daily basis.

Everyone of us in this "Republic of Zaadz" can make a difference.

This photo below is beach front property in Honduras. This lot is priced at $30,000.00. This same lot in the USA, would be priced at... five million, 10 million?



Why do I want every Zaadster to help buy this property?

• Humanitas World Wide is dedicated to the goal of eliminating extreme poverty in Honduras by 2025. This is the global goal of the U.N. Millennium Project
• Humanitas needs a base of operation in Honduras.  We collectively purchase this land and then we as a group of people dedicated to "Changing the World" will build a 100% self sustaining home/office/retreat center, powered by solar and wind energy.
• We will have a base of operations in Honduras that will always be staffed by you, a Zaadzster dedicated to Changing the World in Honduras. When you have your much needed vacation from work, you'll spend it in Honduras, working to help change lives for the better. You'll have a place to stay and a beach to walk on. Think of this as a Time Share Condo for Humanitarians

So how much is this land going to cost?

• 10,000 Zaadsters will contribute 3 dollars each
• 1000 Zaadsters will contribute 30 dollars each
• 500 Zaadzsters will contribute  60 dollars each
• 250 Zaadzsters will contribute 120 dollars each

We can do this. I have an extra 3 bucks and I could find an extra 120 dollars if I sold some stuff I really don't need, or have a yard sale.

Here is your chance to start making  real difference. Honduras is the poorest country of the Americas and they need our help. They need intelligent people like you, to come up with real solutions to complex problems.

The time is now my friends. Very few of us may have $30K in our pockets, but we all have between $3.00 and $120.00 extra.

Namaste

One of the biggest problems facing people in developing countries is the lack of safe drinking water. Since our focus in on Honduras, I can say that in rural areas, 100% of the people are generally effected by intestinal parasites or other nasty side effects of drinking contaminated water.

Quite frankly the problem is the people upstream are contaminating the water with human and animal waste and the people downstream are drinking the stuff! Everything from urine and feces and baby diaper stuff and caustic soaps (laundry is done at the river) and animal parts (what do you do with the guts of a fish, but toss it in the river) get into the river. The biggest problem is there will always be someone up stream no matter where you are!

There is an ancient form of water purification available to the people of Honduras and other places that can give them healthy, safe drinking water. It's called Slow Sand Filtration.


A Biological Sand Filtration System can be built from a mold, using concrete for about $25.00. The media (the sand) comes from wherever you are. A Biological Sand Filtration System needs no electrical power, and no maintenance. BSF's can be large for a community or small for a home. They are very simple to use.

• Water from the source, a river or pond is collected and poured into the top of the BSF
• The nasty stuff that gets you sick is generally killed off by a layer of good bacteria that develops on the surface of the BSF.
• As the water slowly makes it's way to the bottom, it is further purified.
• What comes out the other end of the BSF is pure, clean, safe drinking water.

Difficult problems do not always require high tech, expensive solutions.

Fifty Thousand kids under five years of age die every year in Honduras as a direct result of drinking contaminated water. Our mission is to put an end to that. We can do this.

$25.00 will build a Biological Sand Filtration System and that will keep kids healthy.

• Healthy kids can go to school
• Mom and Dad can go to work instead of staying home with a sick child

We need your help.

Namaste
Jeff

I read today that the President of Honduras was in Washington D.C. last week. One of the issues he wanted to discuss was the mass deportation of his citizens who are in the USA illegally. This essay below confirms my belief that if we bring the American Dream to Central America, they will stop coming to the USA. In the same issue of This Week in Honduras, there was another story of the Americanization of Honduras. The author was sad to see his culture being exchanged for fast food, shopping malls and cell phones. This is not the American Dream I propose we bring to Honduras.

Searching for Illusions

 

http://www.marrder.com/htw/editorial.htm

Any measure or agreement from our government to regulate the situation of thousands of Hondurans living illegally in the United States should be visualized with an open mind.

Many Honduran immigrants have benefited from the TPS, a legal resource that was created with the aim of helping the nationals of the countries affected by Hurricane Mitch.

We do not doubt that many Hondurans living illegally in the U.S. work hard to help their relatives here and that the remittances sent give a certain appearance to boost our national economy.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said, after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on July 10, that amongst other subjects, they talked about the “massive amount of deportees.” Just this year, 15,145 Honduran men have been deported as well as 1,473 women, 169 boys and 26 girls, according to numbers provided by an official of the Center for the Returned Migrant, an organization that keeps such statistics at Toncontin Airport.

Why do Hondurans risk their lives in search of an illusion? We could say it is because there are no jobs: please then, let’s look at the neglected farm fields, the unfinished industries and the unrealized dreams here in our own country.

The United States certainly qualifies as a nation of consumers. In the U.S. ‘time is money.’ While the immigrant there works hard to earn his money, he is working inside a system where he will likely never meet the ‘status quo.’

It is no secret that illegal immigrants have created enormous problems in the U.S., in education, healthcare and housing, to name a few. Something has to be done and we believe it is right for the U.S. to implement measures to address these problems.

Thousands of Africans have immigrated illegally to Spain since the 1970’s. Because of this influx, Spain has taken on tremendous burdens and their problems are serious - environmental, sanitary, political and economic. They are not only looking for money; their search is much deeper.

We believe then that Honduras has all of the resources needed to sustain its population in a dignified manner. All of us, starting with our authorities, should have a national goal to become a Honduras that welcomes and supports all of its citizens.