What about this?
As many ANTA members as possible launch their own projects. You start with education for say 1o kids in your village. And that comes cheap. Primary education is free. You just buy them basic stationery. And you arrange for the photos of the recipients to be taken and posted on your project site. Thanks to Blogger, creating a website is free, and as easy as using Microsoft Word.
And so you have all these separate projects. The basic idea is that you can lift any family out of poverty through the magic three: education, health, micro credit. In the long run, the micro credit part should be able to pay for the other two. But in the short run, you only do what you can. You might only do basic education, and that is okay.
Say you say you are going to put aside $30 per month for your homevillage. That is good enough. Besides, all this would be a tax write off for you. So you are not really even spending money. You are just putting in some basic effort to connect to your homevillage.
As long as you can deliver on the total transparecy part, you would qualify for funds from the original Wall Street to Nepal project. How does this sound? This way we keep the bureaucracy to the minimum. So your $30 a month project could end up a $1000 a month project down the line. And all because you made the basic effort to connect to your homevillage.
Each participating project would manage its own funds. But each would submit regular financial statements to the ANTA Treasurer.
How does this sound? Please comment in the comments section instead of crowding out people's inboxes.
And when you have to go home once a year, or once every two years, you can put that as a tax write off too, as long as you will make the effort to visit with all aspects of your project on the ground, and will document everything, in photos, in videos to be posted online. Ticket to home becomes "free" at that point.
What do you have to lose?
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