Cape Ltd. aidprojects
Cape ltd. is very much concerned with the well fare of its neighboring communities and the fauna and flora, therefore its different aid projects.
The very first aid projects are a school and hand crafts/artistic work shops. The school will only start during the second half of the first year's organized Business, which is approx. 16 months after construction start, Cape Ltd hopes to be able to do this earlier but the financial situation is of highest importance and the Co. wants to make sure that once an aid project is started it will be able to be completed.
The Work Shops on the contrary may be created much before then. The CO's Fauna & Flora will begin as Cape Peponi starts its safari operations in the surrounding. Cape ltd.'s planned aid projects are in most cases also to be profitable and self sustained and will therefore also be productive units that will help the aid unit to survive and develop.
A list of the first Human Resources & Community Development projects
estimated 2001 budget 21.218 - 21.468Sfr, or 5%.
-Cape Peponi School, 10.000Sfr, which includes everything from buildings to uniforms, school materials, a photocopy machine, kitchen equipment and dining wears etc.
-3.000Sfr is put aside to the Kilwa peninsula's other primary and secondary schools, this capital is mainly to be bought school materials for but there is also a need, in a couple of cases, for new class rooms.
-Kilwa Kivinje Hospital will be aided with a sum of 3.000Sfr, which is to meet the very urgent need of a diesel generator + its running costs. The hospital is today depending on the towns generator that does not always work as expected.
-3.000Sfr is to be used for the buy of a diesel generator to Kilwa Masoko's Clinic.
-Kilwa Masoko's air strip will undergo a 2.000Sfr modernization programme where its security is the main target; amongst materials to be bought are fire extinguishers and its today old “fire vehicle” will undergo reparations and modernization.
-Kilwa Masoko's Post office is to be installed with a fax machine for public use, a cost of 500Sfr.
Further projects to be targeted are:
Child Care, mainly via education given both, to parents and children.
The project includes two very precise set goals:
aid with vaccinations (above all to the children) and mosquito nets to the needed amongst Kilwa peninsula’s entire population of about 20.000 people, the plan is that every person is to get his/her personal net before the year 2004. The vaccination are hoped to cover 60 - 70% of the areas children by the same year.
N.B. Due to the problem Cape ltd. faces whether they will be granted the tax incentives by T.I.C (Tanzania Investment Center) or not, the Co. dare not promise that above mentioned capitals will be sufficient for the goods needed. The sums are based on prices in Europe but if Cape ltd. will have to pay e.g. 40% import tax then the aid capital will of course not cover what the Co. hopes for. Also in direct connection to this is surely the speed of Cape ltd.'s development, the more the Co. has to pay in tax the less it can actually invest in its projects therefore its development slows down!
The Co. has several today existing european contacts that have promised to give certain financial or other aid to the Co.'s different aid projects / programmes but even here it depends a lot on T.I.C's desition!? Building done in any aid project will at least be supervised by the Co. directors.The start off Cape Ltd.'s first fauna & flora protection programmes, estimated 2001 budget of 5% or 20.808 - 21.469 Sfr:
The priority here is to engage staff who will be properly educated in radio communications, filming and photography, weaponry, strategies, strict discipline and the way how to catch and treat poachers. These chosen scouts tasks will thereafter be, exempt trekking and tracking with guests, to concentrate on wild life head-counting, keep track of single animals and herds health and control and report changes in the flora. They will be equipped with proper boots, uniforms etc, a 4x4, short wave radio communication equipments, an all weather video camera and a compact all weather camera and other necessary equipment surely including rifles and pump action shotguns + ammunition, which is something Cape Ltd. will make sure that the government understand the necessity of, if a well job done is to be able to be accomplish.
Ten Cape Scouts will be employed to begin with and their main base will be the 100 hectare's banda camp. The initial work will be to set up communication with existing TZ Wild Life Dep. Wardens, villages and lone families in their sector in order to keep a communication flow, which so often is the key to the aid of animals and flora and the antipoaching work.
During any time in the bush, with or without guests, the scouts will film and photograph animals and the nature to keep track of changes and if a change then why? Is it e.g. due to passing elephants, bushfires or human influence, death caused by domestic animals sicknesses that strike the wildlife with force due to their non or low existing immunity against such "domestic" sicknesses etc. By filming and photographing the turn in the nature Cape Ltd. may also warn officials of what may be going on, visual proof of good and bad, and do so after consulting with specialists within each category. Surely these Cape Scouts will also work directly against poaching, it is not the Co.'s wish to "shoot to kill" but rather destroy traps and if possible catch the poachers in order to see if these men, who so often themselves are masters of the "bush life", can not fulfill a good task for Cape Ltd. and Tanzania. The starting cost for all above ranges between 18.000 - 25.000Sfr.