Budget breakdown:
The 16 bitcoin that I am asking you the people of crypto/web3 to help us raise, will be spent on 2 goals:
Goal 1 — installation of the grain facility: $814,000.
This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a cost of £339,403 or ~$465,000* (See detailed Quote). Our contact people at Alvan Blanch who put together this Quote are Ivan Erimu, James Shaw and Christabel Blanch.
As indicated in the above quote, however, the £339,403 doesn’t include civil works and sitework, i.e., the actual installation of the facility; all the needed mechanical and electrical installations; wiring materials; crane and forklift hire; personnel lifting equipment and its hire, etc.
The only thing covered in the £339,403 is plant equipment from Alvan Blanch; CFR Mombasa (i.e., transportation of equipment from Alvan Blanch’s premises in the UK to Mombasa Kenya), and an engineer from Alvan Blanch to oversee the installation at our project site in Kamuli (UG).
This money also doesn’t include the building/warehouse that will house the grain facility, and other needed support structures. Most importantly, Alvan Blanch said it will be our responsibility to clear taxes in Mombasa or Kampala (if they quoted us CFR Kampala), and to ferry the plant equipment from Mombasa or Kampala to Kamuli.
With installation, Alvan Blanch has said they can provide their own skilled installation team at a cost of £50,000 – £67,000 (or $68,627 – $92,000). This money also includes all the needed mechanical/electrical materials, but excludes crane and forklift hire; as well as personnel lifting equipment. This brings the total project cost to $557,000.
We have also spoken with one of the leading warehouse construction firms in Kampala, and a steel fabricated warehouse 15m wide, 50m long, and 9m high (the size recommended by Alvan Blanch) will cost Ugx 380m (or $106,442) excluding VAT (18%). Together with VAT, and all the needed groundwork/preparations, the warehouse will cost ~$150,000. This brings the total cost to $707,000.
Lastly, Alvan Blanch has also said that CFR Kampala (where Alvan Blanch itself carries the plant equipment from the UK directly to Kampala, rather than Mombasa), will cost an additional GBP 27,000 or $37,000 — and has said that, with taxes (on plant equipment in Uganda), there is no clear estimate of how much we will pay (or not pay). So, we have simply set aside another $50,000 both for taxes and hire of a crane, forklift & personnel lifting equipment. This is what brings the total project cost to $814,000.
(*GBP to USD conversions are based on local forex rates).
2) Goal 2 — 12% for 100% ADMIN self-sufficiency:
That’s, multiplying production on the UCF’s own 12 acre premises using irrigation and a little bit of permaculture, to ensure that 100% of our administrative overheads are covered by the UCF itself. Needed funding: $101,968.
With a grain facility in place, our new goal is to expand our current white sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli & Buyende, a region that stretches 3,300sqkm with over a million people and 165,000+ households. The day to day costs of running this work will be very huge.
Currently, all the money that we use to run our work comes from small online donations. And as said earlier, this money is mostly spent on inputs (seed, tarpaulins, pesticides, fertilizers, spray pumps etc) that our project provides to all farmers totally free, only as a hand-up.
The UCF is located on 12 acres, and our goal right now is to put every available space on this land to maximum use, using a combination of irrigation and permaculture approaches, to ensure that 100% of our overheads are covered by us, i.e., from the income on our 12 acres. See.
Total cost for both Goal 1 and 2 above: $915,968 (~16btc).