Mission Statement — Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation
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We are asking for used athletic shoes to fight poverty, hunger, and global warming.
This is accomplished by educating small farmers in the use of the MORE Farming System. This is the entire focus of PPPF a Not-for-profit Foundation registered in Delaware. We are 100% funded from the sale of ‘gently used athletic shoes’. Of the one billion pair of shoes placed in landfills each year we only need a few hundred thousand of those to reach a tipping point.
Africans seek opportunities to prosper, conserve natural habitat and regenerate regions that have been severely damaged. The highly qualified management of MORE Institute in Ghana West Africa teaches small farmers and villages how to create Modular Organic Regenerative Environment’s (MORE). From one acre farms to entire regions, MORE is a bottom up approach.
Irrigation pumps are at the core of any sustainable farming practice. After training we donate bicycle powered pumps, solar powered pumps, and promote, wind, bio-oil, and locally sourced energy. When the farmer can prosper on the same few acres each year ‘slash and burn’ farming practice is eliminated. Soil building, composting, water management, tree farming, intensive vegetable production, animal husbandry, mushroom production, beekeeping, poultry, and far more are included in MORE Farming training.
Our organization is asking for gently used American athletic shoes that have spent years in closets and will spend 100 years out-gassing in landfalls if not given a second life in Africa. With each 600 pair of shoes the adopted family will receive 12 months of hands-on MORE training. After MORE training is complete the family receives the tools, seeds, trees, and livestock to increase productivity as much as 1000%.
MORE Institute teaches the integrated MORE Farming System as well as small farm business management, rainforest resource conservation, capacity analysis, marketing research, profit center modeling, tribal community development, microfinance lending. As well as training in Co-op set up; how to form a village credit union with self-capitalized expansion. We also provide free medical assistance for the families protecting them from Malaria and other African infectious disease.
Kindest regards,
Jim Riordan, Director PPPF
NEVER BEFORE HAS SO MUCH BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITH SO LITTLE
Staff
Jim Riordan (Founder and Director of Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation)
After a thirty year career as a builder/developer Jim founded Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation in 2004 to provide appropriate technology transfer for small rural farmers in Africa. Since 1980 Jim has been researching small scale food production models and irrigation technology ideally suited for the poor rural farmer. He has visited many emerging economies and been to Africa seven times since 1999.
The Miracle Pump Irrigation System and the integrated MORE Growing System developed by Jim and associates is currently being taught by the Kumasi Institute for Tropical Agriculture, located in Ghana West Africa.
Jim is passionate about demonstrating small scale farm models that sustain yields ten times greater then traditional African agricultural practice. He believes that with access to micro-credit, training, and appropriate technology small farmers and villages can grow themselves out of poverty.
Olivia Parr-Rud
Olivia is an internationally known speaker and author of Data Mining Cookbook (Wiley 2001). She has over 23 years experience in marketing with a 14-year emphasis in data mining and statistical analysis for a variety of industries. She is also a passionate spiritual seeker who incorporates a holistic approach to all of her corporate and altruistic pursuits.
Through OLIVIAGroup, she offers a combination of services designed to empower companies to maximize their marketing potential through strategic consulting, predictive modelling and data mining. Current clients include SIGMA Marketing, Xerox, Hewlett Packard and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.
Olivia teaches courses based on her book, “Data Mining Cookbook: Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management (Wiley 2001)”, now available in 4 languages. Olivia also provides one-on-one training worldwide via the Internet. She has just completed a home study course in predictive modeling.
Olivia has held senior management positions at Fleet Bank, National Liberty Insurance and Providian Bancorp. She has a BA in Mathematics from Gettysburg College and an MS in Decision and Information Systems, with a concentration in Statistics, from Arizona State University.
Joan Frederiks (Director of Marketing for French Speaking Nations)
Joan is an expert in building technology and systems. He has traveled extensively as a result of his consulting business. He is fluent in six languages and has honed his management skills working in many cultures. From his many years working in Africa he has developed appropriate low cost building systems. Joan has directed every aspect of large construction projects and is constantly researching ways to improve quality and reduce construction costs while motivating labor. He is passionate about introducing alternative building materials where most needed. Joan is also a master chef and motor cycle enthusiast.
John ‘Jack’ Dickey (Advisor of Seed Bank Network and Alternative Hardwood Crops.)
With over 30 years in the seed production and seed brokering business Mr. Dickey brings considerable experience to the TechNet Team. Founder and owner of Dickey seed company Jack held the position of largest supplier of Soybean seeds in the southwest US for over a decade. His love of agriculture has been a life long passion. His knowledge of the seed business will allow thousands to increase their income with his understanding of biorotation and soil management.
For the last 10 years he has shifted his attention to the introduction of ‘hardwood crop’ farming. He has overseen the organization of hardwood plantations in several Central American countries. Currently he is continuing his research in Georgia and intends to teach people around the world the advantages of intercropping and sustainable agriculture.
Phil Harris
Phil Harris has 25 years of experience that includes directing, designing, and consulting for social service programs throughout the United States. Mr. Harris has provided direct service to many families. Through this experience he has become a well known advocate of social progress and individual growth. Mr. Harris emphasizes his spirituality as his motivation for the work that he has done.
Some of his work includes: designing and directing programs for public and private agencies that assist families who have experienced traumatizing life changing events, facilitating training seminars, providing comprehensive mental health services to Head Start programs, and various volunteer activities.
Phil completed his undergraduate work at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and received his Masters in Social Work from Clark-Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is licensed to practice social work in State of Virginia and Georgia. He also holds Certifications in five specialized areas: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CCBT), Diplomate with the American Psychotherapy (CDAP), Family Centered Case Management (CFCCM), Trainer (CT), and a Sex Offender Treatment Provider, (CSOTP).
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