Micro Affluence

Micro Affluence is a Dasar Kurnia tool and mindset. The development of Micro Affluence is the process of creating and generating excess income on a sustainable basis in a community. This can mean participants of a project of twenty five families within a village or township will be able to create enough economic activity to lift the remaining community's level of financial well being and social development, generating an emergent ripple effect.

Working on the principal of "give a man a fish and he eats for a day but teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime" any project starts with the end in mind. The project must provide:

•Economically viable projects that generate external funds linked to beneficial community cost centres such as clinics, libraries, schools and community centres
•New transferrable skills
•Vocational skills
•Long term psycho-social rehabilitation
•Economic Empowerment of Families and creating a stable environment
•Increase in the value of the human capital of the project area
•Ripple effects to the community and sound exit strategies
•Tangible and intangible benefits to participants and evaluation of project objectives

Each project must be approached differently as each group of participants will be facing unique circumstances but all will face the need to break the poverty cycle and to lift themselves out of failure mindsets. To formulate a proposal for assisting communities in developing Micro Affluence, it will be necessary for the Dasar Kurnia team to visit the area and prepare a report to create a strategy. The production of the initial report and the development of a scope of work will take on average four weeks