Rural Housing Support Initiative:
When developing the Amandla Resources proposal, for collection of BioMass, for use as feedstock to supply a Grid-linked Power Station, we find that a massive labour employment opportunity will arise.
This is focused on the harvesting, bundling, loading and transport-delivery of the Forestry waste and other BioMass, to the power station stockyard and is estimated to employ between 1000 and 2000 persons, for a typical 65Mw operation, located in a rural community.These people all have families and are in need of Social services support and especially housing.
The members of these communities have been denied access to the full range of Government welfare programmes, especially for the purpose of acquiring their own homes or for the purpose of constructing rural homes; partially because of the lack of organisation, delivery mechanisms and infrastructure in these far-flung and under-serviced areas.
The makers of the HAKA Block-mold system have valiantly persisted and encouraged self-help schemes, often in association with Church groups, whereby the potential home owner can acquire a block mold and in his own time, he can manufacture sufficient blocks for the construction of his own home, without or not relying on any government subsidies or support.
They have achieved remarkable success in this endeavour and reportedly some 500,000 rural homes have therefore been built, in KZN and Venda over the past 15 years, in this self-help manner.
AMANDLA RESOURCES proposes to promote and support a continuation of these productive endeavours and is therefore most willing to promote support for DAPSA, the manufacturers and distributors of these handy, manual block-making devices as well as their more sophisticated multiple-block, commercial machines for vibro-casting.
