Yupukari

General Community Development Plans

Education:

*children need to have access to Secondary School

---Because lot of children who is brilliant to go on higher level of study doesn’t have a chance to go to further their study.

*To have better and more accommodations in Secondary School dorms

---Most children do not have space to stay in the dorms and are staying with relatives or in renting rooms and have to travel to school far distance each day.

* Rehabilitation and extension of school-buildings, teachers building

* Upgrading the skills of teachers through training programmes;

* Bilingual and cross-cultural context reflected in curriculum (Guyanese/Amerindian culture);

*Need more volunteers, trained teachers,

* Learning institute for children and adults – understanding of Amerindian rights

--Public speaking, Leadership skills, accountancy skills

* Have persons trained in servicing the solar system for water and lights

*Skills Learning--- craft making, carpentry, brick making etc.

Health:

*Need better trained health personnel; Medex, Nurse, Midwife, Dentix

*Need a proper Health Care System; hospital

----because patients have to travel far to get their treatments, when there is no transportation and person are very ill.

*Availability of drugs –need more drugs in the health post

* Transportation for Community Health Workers;

* More CHW trained as microscopist;

* upgrading knowledge health-workers;

*HIV/Aids testing centre

----cause people in the village don’t know their status. Doesn’t even care what HIV/aids are.

*Indigenous Doctors

Transportation:

*Tractor- to transport goods from farm and to take the goods out to sell

---because people do farming but don’t have transportation to transport it from farm and to carry it out to sell somewhere.

*Vehicle

---to take students back to secondary schools and bring them home when holiday - To use for emergencies.

*Airstrip

Infrastructure:

*Put up a building for Women’s Sewing Group with more equipments

--- Because there is a Women’s sewing group that is still functioning, has equipment but doesn’t have a proper building for them.

*To have proper roads

*Proper housing scheme

----because houses are built scattered in nature. Villagers should plan to allow for good spacing, aesthetics, and more. There is a growing tendency to use burnt brick to construct the walls of homes and cement to make floors. This is aesthetically good and allows for better hygiene. More windows are also placed on the outer walls to allow for better circulation of air.

*Termites building to be functioning

Water:

*To have adequate supply of portable water for domestic use and gardens

-----because there is not enough water for homes, for kitchens, shower and for gardens.

*Overhead water tanks

----wants it’s high because senior citizens will not have problems running into the well.

---A training programme in the local language should also be done with the school and villagers.

Sports/Recreation

*Need children’s park

--- To relax, play games, meet friends, picnic, etc…

*Proper sports Complex, playground

---for athletic sports for schools, football, cricket and other outdoor games

*Zoo:

--- To have children and adults knowing the names of different kinds of animals

---- have people have a chance to see the animals etc..

Communication:

*Radio broadcast—NCN and Paiwomak

---to have a better and clear signal

* HF Radio

---to use when on emergency or to pass message quick to other villages

*Post office

--to send mails

*Telephone and Cell Phone service

—this equipment will be used in times of emergencies or to do other business

*Internet

---to get information, check emails, etc

*News letters, Posters, Pamphlets…

---to know what is going on the village or what is to be done and to come

Electricity:

*Solar system to push power for lights in homes

---because people live in the dark and is sometimes get bit by spiders, snake etc.

Eco-Tourism:

*More guest house

* Sites to be documented

Environment:

*Environmental Awareness in the compound, toilets…

Village need to have garbage bins in the compound and by the important building, so as to keep the environment clean. Also proper toilets need be place in the village and by the important building.

Economic Opportunities

Agriculture

Agriculture is practiced at a subsistence level but some farmers produce more than needed to gain money for purchasing goods needed. It is a common sight to see farmers in their bullock carts travelling to Lethem to sell farine and agriculture products. Recently, the village was granted a tractor by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and this should be used by the villagers for transporting their produce to the growing Lethem market or elsewhere. Currently the village started harvesting the vegetables and greens from the kitchen gardens and the villagers do harvest the fish resources from rivers, lakes and ponds. With a long term approach there should be training in aquaculture and so allow the community members to rear fish in commercial quantities for the market in Lethem. Also with:

*Livestock—increase on cattle and sheep rearing

*Fish farms, Piggery, Poultry

*Cassava Production—Factory of making farine, cassava bread, cassareep etc.

*Agriculture equipment and machine such as Tractor, Mills, and truck should be there for the farmers.

* Proper marketing system put in place both locally and overseas for crops, livestock etc

*Proper access roads to farm lands

*Logging: - cutting lumber, cutting logs

Some villagers do logging as their business. Whilst this is going a project should be done to do an inventory of the forests. This would allow the people to document their resources and so plan for sustainable usage.

Cultural continuity:

*Improve traditional languages –in school, workshops, and library

*Passing on Stories, songs, dances and traditional medicine to the younger ones

Projects that have already been done:

--Kitchen garden project-gardens to every household in the village

-vegetables and greens growing in the garden

-water tanks put up nearer to the houses in east, west, north, south from the main tanks.

Problem is that there is not much manure for gardens and acoushi ants eating the vegetables and greens

--- Importing Boarding Area project.

Projects that are still in process:

• Caiman monitoring

Other projects to be done:

Natural Resources Management project-

Annual Community development Plans