By affording me the means to install the intended grain facility, you will have enabled me to create an unlikely solution, by an unlikely creator — myself, someone who has battled hunger and ultra-poverty my entire life — in an unlikely part of the world: Uganda’s poorest region.
It is partly the reason I want our intended plant to be 80% owned by the rural poor farmers across our region who will be growing the crops that this plant will working on. The opposite, i.e., running this plant as a traditional capitalist endeavor, means I will have forgotten who I am, & the primary setup of the community to which I belong.
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Only you, the people of crypto/web3, can afford me this.
Putting all other factors aside, humanity’s own establishment systems — traditional philanthropy, the traditional monetary system, the global antipoverty movement etc — have historically kept people like us on the sidelines of the global fight against poverty, and are the main reason people like us are where we are today.
But the little that I have read about crypto/web3 thus far, is that you, the people of crypto, believe decentralized systems like web3 are the ultimate way of ensuring all humans have the sovereignty, freedom and independence that all other systems have long failed to bring. It is one of the things that have motivated me to write to you.
Let’s make crypto a force that can accomplish what other traditional systems have long failed to accomplish.