Why care about our response to this situation?

We believe a lack of emphasis on this issue is like a head in the sand policy.

Current systems tend to rely on the individual to address the issue personally and re-educate and move along the employment chain to become more knowledge based in their skills.

At the heart of our organisation we desire to help clarify local communities/peoples in this development from primary wealth creation to more knowledge based change.

The Economic Development Foundation(NZ) limited ( EDF.NZ)has its emphasis on local grassroots participation.

We have been inspired by certain organisations over the years which do this well. They each bring a different aspect of change to the local communities where they are based. It is the desire of the EDF.NZ to bring these organisations into one community and provide catalyst funding to establish their good work. The outcome of this will promote Poverty reduction and greater positive choices.

I will list the desired organisations below:

1. www.practicalaction.org
2. www.greenleaf.org
3. www.sirolli.com
4. www.jak.se

Each community needs the ability and freedom to create new business's to develop wealth and create infrastructure

e.g. roading,hospitals,airports,education e.t.c.

EDF desires to partner with the above organistions to help develop localised intitiatives.

We believe the issue of Poverty is not only based around the need for great access to currency.

We believe that Poverty is caused in more due to a lack of good positive choices.

There is a strong emphasis in current pre-dominantly western democratic economic circles that to survive economically we need to reduce the emphasis on hands-on employment.(Labourers,Manufacturing,Construction etc). Governments who are lead somewhat by Academia and manipulated by big business promote this mindset. This mindset is promoted via Government led scholarships and policy.

Our opinion is that we need to choose our fights. We (I speak for the top 20 O.E.C.D countries) cannot compete with .30 c an hour for output in the primary industy sector. Our average hourly rate income in the NZ where I live is $19.30 for the primary sector workers.

Economic Development Foundation

Welcome to our "new" blog for the Economic Development Foundation.

Our mission statement is (our action that follows our thought pattern)

"To assist and to serve for greater Social and Economic outcomes"

As a company we will use this blog to clarify and gauge a response to the thought patterns and actions associated with the organisations core mission statement.

We think the internet creates a new kind of community.

We think that all our endevours should be involved in enhancing positive community involvement.

Partnering with the Web community we will only aid our core mission.