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Third World Villagers

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About Me


Poor countries have a challenging mix of problems.
Almost everyone has seen a movie, a documentary, or website discussing extreme poverty, lack of drinking water, starvation, or the fight against AIDS. There's plenty of opportunity to discover the plight of poverty on the world. Now it's time to share the solutions.
Village the Game shows off the best solutions to extreme poverty.
These solutions are sustainable, eco-friendly, and provide income for the world's poorest. Start and run your own microcredit bank, sell irrigation pumps that help farmers grow ten times more food. Bring affordable solar power and mobile phone technology to your village. Test your favorite strategies in-game with villages modeled after the real world.
Village is SimCity for the Third World.
Instead of being mayor, be an entrepreneur. Build and run companies that transform lives. Village is a realtime strategy game for the PC that immerses the player into the role of an entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the villages of the Third World.
Play it. Love it. Live it.
The impact of Village doesn't stop at raising awareness of solutions. It continues into inspiring action: First learn how cool microcredit is, then go to www.Kiva.org and try microlending for real. Experiment with micromedical clinics in Kenya then recruit friends you met inside the game to fund a franchise in Tanzania.
Become a part of history.
As billions live without life's basic necessities there are millions who crave to have deep meaningful impact on the lives of others. When these millions discover the power they have to transform the lives of billions, everybody wins. Village is the chance to discover that power. Village is a game worth winning.

My Interests

Village the Game:

Village the Game MySpace group HERE!

"Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in a developing world - Empowering them to lift themselfs"

"KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new low-cost technologies in Africa."

"CS's main ideology is to contribute to a better quality of life of the population, by the means of an efficient solid waste management system. An efficient solid waste management system facilitates cleaner cities and generates employment."

"Cosmos Ignite strives to give an alternative source of light for millions using expensive and dangerous kerosene oil lamps in India and developing countries around the world. They are doing so by providing Mightylamp, designed especially to be used in Third World conditions."

"The HealthStore Foundation is a nonprofit corporation running the Child and Family Wellness Shops (CFWShops) project. Their mission is: 'To improve access to essential drugs, basic healthcare, and prevention services for children and families in the developing world using business models that are scalable, maintain standards, and achieve economies of scale.'"

I'd like to meet:

http://www.villagethegame.com/

Television:

Christopher Hedge - The New Heroes:

Books:



My Blog

You can find us on Facebook too!

Here is our group on Facebook: http://jhu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4326307367
Posted by Third World Villagers on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:13:00 PST