We are currently in a position where we have designed a number of innovative solutions to support economic growth, landmine removal and food production. However, we are struggling to locate an investor to the company or donor to the charity who appreciates this technology and is willing to grasp this opportunity. We would be helping with such issues as landmine removal, agricultural and community development and further development within the manufacturing industry with associated export markets and general economic growth.

Our objective is to develop and produce machinery/systems that increase the safety and efficiency of the landmine removal industry while facilitating a reduction in the operating costs and an increase in revenue, thus making it possible for financial gain to be had from undertaking humanitarian works and so bring about a dramatic increasing in the number of companies and organisations undertaking these much-needed tasks.

To develop the full-scale production facilities for the MDM (Modular De-Mining) machine, will require an investment of $2.85million US Dollars, however this could be broken down into smaller phases allow the building of a basic prototype MDM machine to undertake vegetation clearance, landmine removal and crop planting. This would then attract additional investor confidence and hopefully, pave the way for the further investment into the full production facilities. There are also plans to build the agricultural derivative of the MDM machine called the CropMaker. This is a much simpler machine that is able to effectively, plough, de-stone, cultivate, seed, fertilize and roll simultaneously, this would help with agricultural development as well as our own
financial sustainability.

One of the reasons that this has never been done before on such a large scale is because the commercial cost of removing landmines was higher than the potential agricultural returns. However, by reducing this cost through the novel Modular De-Mining system methodology and with the ability to simultaneously plant crops for food, or other modern crops for industrial starch or crops to help the economy such as oilseed rape to produce bio-diesel as mineral oil reserves diminish, we believe that we are now able to tip the scales in favour of large-scale mine removal. Many countries have now signed up to the Ottawa treaty to remove landmines; the potential of this is huge.

Wherever we set up manufacturing these machines, it will help to strengthen the local economy and encourage economic development and exports. Our problem is the funding to take the project forward. Some funding bodies have expressed an interest mainly via match funding, but as yet we have nothing to match it with. Please consider this, (see whole site) and let us know if there are any means by which we could move forward with this important project, either through investment into the commercial company or by a philanthropic donation to the charity or the sponsorship of a machine. If you are able to help make this happen, please contact us.

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