Proposal Summary Providing an Ecological, Economical and Sociological Project for Senegal W Africa
09/08
The True Vine Foundation is a Texas-based 501(C)(3)foundation formed in 2003 to serve as the umbrella for True Vine Health; The Earth Collective S.A. de C.V., and Quest Fusion Life Sciences. TVF serves also as a liaison between humanitarian minded private industries, church organizations and governments.
The True Vine Foundation is looking to expand its humanitarian interests into West Africa and beyond.
Introduction
The socio-economic challenges facing West Africa today are growing to epic proportions. Not only is there a tremendous need for health care and education improvements on many levels in Senegal and other parts of West Africa, there is a huge need for industrial and technological growth as many nations with struggling economies compete for affluence in world markets.
Innovative solutions in industry and agriculture are required to solve both the social needs and the economic needs of this country. Technologies, along with environmental responsibility, need to be blended with a well-developed plan for public education and health care to form self-sustaining and healthy communities.
The model community however will not subsist solely on public education and economic growth. The model community will have to be a healthy and whole community. This will come by balancing the economics of the community and education of the people with the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of the community. The model community would display attributes of peace, abundance and harmony not only with its own members and the members outside of itself but also with the environment.
The world’s communities as a whole are showing increasing signs of distress. Economic abundance has not lead to Utopian societies even in the most affluent nations. Increased crime rates, fractured families, mental and physical addictions, increased degenerative diseases and moral degradation are some of the symptoms of societal breakdown. These evidences are like a parasite and a blight attacking unhealthy plants. A healthy plant with a hearty root system and sufficient nutrients will not exhibit such dysfunction.
Healthy people will not remain healthy in a broken or distressed society. Neither can unhealthy people regain complete wellness in a broken environment. People in general will remain unhealthy unless all aspects of health, society and environment are addressed in their lives. Our present course in this world is a destructive one. But we do have the opportunity to innovate a better and healthier society resulting in more wholesome citizens therein.
Why Create Such Communities?
As we evolve from the Industrial Age and our petroleum based economy into the Information Age and on through to the Knowledge Age, we need to put into practice the wisdom that has been accumulated to date; Wisdom regarding how man as a society can live productively and in harmony with fellow man and the environment; Wisdom to not over-extend the earth’s capacity to support man.
Do we continue to spoil the earth’s resources with our irresponsible ways, or do we teach how to offer a quality of life for man in synergy with our planet? How many governments can set aside their bureaucracy and politics to effect change? Can corporations and their dictates of increasing profit margins and self-interests recognize this dilemma and solve it?
True Vine Foundation believes that it is time to incorporate its vast portfolio of innovative technologies spanning from industry to agriculture to healthcare to create models of how sustainable communities can be created. Communities that not only can sustain themselves but can actually serve as environmentally sound prototypes and economic engines for the region that they are located.
The solutions we offer require the collective resolve and resources of people and organizations that also recognize these problems. Self-sustaining communities are about people and organizations that have the fortitude and commitment to see the solutions accomplished.
We hereby respectfully invite your organization to join in supporting this multi-national movement to create healthier alternatives for the future.
Craig Stellpflug
Founder, CEO
Phase I
Bio-diesel plant and desalination project overview. Funding to be in place January 2009 with groundbreaking commencing May 2009
Phase I requires the application of 2000 hecta-acres to be donated by the Senegal government.
This beginning phase will consist of a two-year timeline. During this time the seasons of cultivating soil, planting, growing, and harvesting jatropha crop stock for the bio-diesel plant will begin. The community central offices, facility buildings and dwellings for 100 people will be erected. The desalination plant will be assembled and activated. Algae tanks will be installed and started along with erecting crude oil, glycerin, and bio-diesel storage tanks. Docking for ships, the pump house and accompanying pipelines, community roads and drainage will be constructed. The bio-diesel plant will be installed and activated, which can be fed from the algae tanks and crop stock purchased from local agriculture while waiting for the jatropha crop to produce.
Crop cultivation; the installation of irrigation, the planting and cultivation of jatropha, other rotating crops and algae tanks on the roughly 1800 farmable hecta-acres will phase over 24 months. This will eventually provide rotating crops of feedstock for the bio-diesel plant. The first full rotation of jatropha crop will take 5 years.
Desalination plant; this operation will process 1 million gallons of seawater a day. This will supply potable water for the community, water for the crops and algae and a surplus to sell to nearby communities. Each million gallons of seawater processed will yield 240 mega-watts of electricity per day. This will provide electricity for the whole community and allow a generous surplus to sold to the national grid. In addition, this will generate a substantial amount of hydrogen gas that will be sold for production of clean energy.
*Estimated net annual income from surplus product sale of desalination plant is potentially $30 million USD per year.
Bio-diesel plant; this operation in full swing will produce an estimated gross revenue of $75 million USD with a minimum estimable return of net 19 million USD annually. Costs and profits will vary widely with dependence upon purchasing feedstock from market sources.
Phase I Funding Requirements for the project (specifics available in the Project Overview)
Project UnitBrief Description Funding Requirement
Preliminary start-up budgetEngineering, accounting, architect, travel and administration budget$2 million USD
Buildings, dwellings, streets and farm/construction equipment costsCapital outlay for initial buildings and streets and related equipment$12 million USD
Farming start upCrop cultivation and irrigation $.8 million USD
Desalination PlantPurchase and installation of plant and all related equipment and lines$24.5 million USD
Bio diesel plant and shipping pierCapital cost to purchase and install plant, staff, train, and operate for the first year $23 million
Subtotal$61.3 million USD
Contingency10% of the project cost$6.13 million USD
Project Administration Fee20% of the total project$12.26 million USD
Total$80.42 million USD
Phase II
Expansion of desalination plant and community housing and commerce for a community of 1,000 people.
In this phase the desalination plant will be expanded to increase the output of water and electricity to both meet the needs of the growing community and increase the saleable output of products.
Phase II will include the cultivation of residences, churches, cafes, grocery and variety stores, building supply store, clinics and other collateral businesses that thrive in a growing economy. The community investment will be in the form of public parks, theatre, schools, public utilities, library and community center. It is the intent of the True Vine Foundation to promote free enterprise and not to own the businesses. All public places will belong to the community.
Urban planning will dictate the exact timing of the introduction of different commercial interests.
Phase II Funding Requirements for the project (specifics available in the Project Overview)
Project UnitBrief Description Funding Requirement
Urban planning and community government costsEngineering, accounting, architect, planning and administration budget$3 million USD
Drainage, street and utility constructionCapital outlay for drainage, street and underground utility construction and related machinery$12 million USD
Public, parks, school, library and community centerConstruction and stocking of school, library/community center and parks.$38 million USD
Expansion of desalination plantPurchase and installation of plant expansion $40 million USD
Wastewater and sewage plantAerobic system $4.5 million USD
Subtotal$97.5 million USD
Contingency10% of the project cost$9.75 million USD
Project Administration Fee20% of the total project$19.5 million USD
Total$136.75 million USD
Phase III
Construction of hospital, resort and airport.
Seaside beach improvements.
Phase II Funding Requirements for the project (specifics available in the Project Overview)
Project UnitBrief Description Funding Requirement
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Subtotal$ million USD
Contingency10% of the project cost$ million USD
Project Administration Fee20% of the total project$ million USD
Total$ million USD
Component Groups
HKS, Inc.
The design, planning, and engineering team for the self-sustaining communities and the healthcare facilities is HKS, Inc. based in Dallas, Texas (see: www.hksinc.com <http://www.hksinc.com> ). It is the fifth largest architectural and engineering firm in the United States with a global reputation for healthcare facilities. HKS will partner with the True Vine Foundation executive committee to create global models for self-sustaining communities that embrace ecology and healing.
True Vine Health is the healthcare services provider within the project. True Vine has innovative healthcare technologies and applications for the present and in the future, through the research and development arm of the True Vine to be established in the communities. True Vine Foundation through HKS, Inc. will design state-of-the art healthcare facilities including hospitals in Mendoza Argentina, San Carlos Mexico and in Senegal West Africa for the diagnosis and delivery of integrative/bio-energetic/natural health medicine. There has been no specific facility designed from the ground up that incorporates all of the known and proven methodologies involving integrative/bio-energetic/natural medicine. These facilities will serve as clinical treatment, research, teaching laboratories, and living models for Medicine in the 21st century, re-tooling the future of healthcare!
True Vine will utilize the technologies held by Quest Fusion Life Sciences in its Quest Health, NT Labs, and Quest Medical units in conjunction with innovations amalgamated from around the world. For an example, Craig Stellpflug NDC, who is the Director, Founder, and CEO of the True Vine Foundation, is a published and renowned developmental neurologist with non-pharmacologic solutions to learning and behavioral disorders in children.
A unique component of True Vine is its application for addressing the spiritual component of dis-ease. A 90% effective ministry pioneered by Dr. Henry Wright called A More Excellent Way, which has clearly demonstrated the direct tie of spiritual roots of disease to over 700 common medical conditions. Pastor Wright has worked with institutions such as John Hopkins Medical Center to research causation and to document effectiveness of focusing on the spiritual root of diseases. It is natural to fit this breakthrough work with the diagnosis and treatment of dis-ease on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual planes of a patient for true elimination and not simply disease management of medical conditions.
The healthcare facilities will be administered by Quest Fusion Healthcare Management. This unit has highly experienced management teams led by Mr. Joseph Gagliardi, formerly CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, in establishing, recruiting, training, and staffing healthcare facilities utilizing breakthrough integrative medical technologies and allopathic (mainstream care).
Quest Fusion Life Sciences (QFLS) is the result of years of work to create a package of biotechnology and healthcare companies that serve as a base of entrepreneurial companies partnering with in-country partners of a client nation, designated by the sovereign government. By transferring technologies and expertise to the client nation, the Life Sciences Group will create a zone of profitable enterprises in biotechnology and healthcare companies adjacent to the communities within the target nations, catapulting it into providing cost-effective efficacious healthcare solutions within the nation and beyond.
Western healthcare as we know it has failed against chronic degenerative diseases. These self-sustaining communities will feature healthcare facilities that serve as the models for how to assess and treat successfully chronic degenerative diseases. It will lead the way to provide successful treatment rather than disease management, which is the most that can be hoped for by the present allopathic (mainstream) healthcare systems. Healthcare costs in the United States are on a runaway train with no real bottom line benefit. Are people becoming healthier? No. Is the quality of life improving? Actually, it is declining. From a business perspective, we are bankrupting nations to provide ‘procedures’ and care without an appreciable benefit on the macroeconomic level. Money spent has been a poor investment from a public health policy viewpoint. There has to be a better way, and there is. The only way to prove it is by allowing the multiple breakthroughs in diagnostics and treatment modalities to come under one roof instead of remaining isolated islands of innovation.
QFLS’s role to the True Vine Foundation is to provide breakthrough biotechnology and healthcare technologies to make the healthcare treatment facilities among the most advanced and to create profitable companies with a highly favorable economic impact to help financially support and sustain the communities. The idyllic communities serve as magnets to attract talented scientists and professionals to make it their base and home to continue research and development.
The Earth Collective S.A. de C.V.
The Earth Collective (pending Mexican non-profit) has been established as a coalition of highly skilled consultants and experts, specializing in people-centered approaches to macro, micro health, social, economic, and environmental balance through the implementation of self-sustainable and humanitarian projects.
As a group, the Earth Collective team has an extensive background in the development of self-sustainable and eco-humanitarian projects, real estate, and the start up of new enterprises. This group will be responsible for the design, planning, and implementation of the self-sustaining communities which are the centerpiece of this multi-country project. The communities will serve as showcases for amalgamating humanitarian, ecological, and social technologies as living laboratories to the world.
The Earth Collective team will have the primary responsibility of working with HKS, Inc. to design, plan, incorporate the vast portfolio of technologies, implement, and manage the communities created through this multi-country project.
Global Trading Partnership LTD
Global Trading Partnership LTD is a company that invests in communities by brokering world commodities to further humanitarian projects in underdeveloped countries.
JE Victory LLC
JE Victory LLC is a growing company possessing the potential to one day deliver enough jatropha bio-diesel to meet the world’s demand. "We have created a unique business model and put in place the right mix of technology and contracts, as well as a strong team, in order to produce positive results and enable business growth.”
The overall schematic for the San Carlos, Mexico and Mendoza, Argentina self-sustaining communities
How Do You Balance The Needs?
The Earth Collective has studied needs of physical and social well-being, economic health and environmental balance. Thriving in the future will depend on a community’s ability to balance these three elements in a significant and ethical manner. It will also require a wise use of resources to meet current needs while at the same time, acknowledging the need to make resources available in the future.
In moving into the Knowledge Age, more business activities can take place anywhere - after all, information being turned into knowledge can physically happen anywhere with advanced communications systems, and enhancement of the quality of life becomes a driving force. Knowledge workers are the greatest challenge to manage, who seek ‘quality of life’ and literally can work from anywhere. This helps make the case for recruiting the talented knowledge workers among the myriad of companies comprising the Life Sciences Group. A benefit to the community is that many of those companies will serve as a major employer for the community and act as a driving economic force for the region. The healthcare facilities will also employ a number of highly skilled workers to serve the region.
The group’s agriculture technologies can create a ‘lush environment’ on less than optimal land. The ability to design and plan from the ground up, aesthetic viable communities that rest in a verdant ‘resort’ environment with the ‘atmosphere’ of being a whole, healthy place, make it quite pleasant to live within the community or have non-residents visit it’s resort/spa facilities and/or use the leading edge healthcare facilities.
In summary, True Vine has a vast portfolio of technologies that are synergistic in creating an ecologically balanced community on less than optimal land creating an ‘oasis’ that not only can pay its bills with agricultural output from the agro-forestry and intercropping farming but also with income realized from the resort and healthcare/wellness centers. This sort of community is ideal to locate the knowledge workers of the biotechnology and healthcare companies that serve as economic engines not only for the community but for the region if not the nation.
Funding Requirements for the True Vine Foundation (specifics available in the Project Overview)
Project UnitBrief Description Funding Requirement
Community outlay for San Carlos overseen by the Earth CollectiveCapital costs for the San Carlos self-sustaining community$234 million USD
Health and wellness center for San CarlosCapital cost to build and establish the health and wellness center in San Carlos$45 million USD
Community outlay for Mendoza, ArgentinaCapital costs mirror what is required for San Carlos$234 million USD
Quest Fusion Life Science companies for ArgentinaStartup capital to acquire technologies, research and development, and start-up capital$487 million USD
Integrative medical hospital based in Mendoza, ArgentinaCapital cost to design, build, equip, staff, train, and operate (3 yrs.) a fully operational integrative medical hospital to serve as a global model $151,498,737 million to build and equip $312,750,000 for operating the hospital for 3 years with no income
Subtotal$1,184,249
Contingency10% of the project cost$118,543,325
Project Administration Fee20% of the total project$260,558,725
Total$1,563,351,050.
Project costs are detailed for monthly allocations for each unit and site
How Will The Project Self-Fund After The Initial Project Funds?
The Earth Collective did a careful study of the communities. Upon establishment of the agro-forestry and plantation utilizing the intercropping farming system with advanced agro-technology systems to accelerate growth and health, within a few months, the development becomes income-producing and a sustainable project. The total Phase I timber/farming income for each community is projected at $136 million USD in the first five years. This income will only grow with the maturity of the trees. Value-added processing and packaging shall increase the value of the biomass crop by a factor of five. All tree harvests are renewable and continue perpetually every five years. The real estate market dimension is vast as desirable communities to live in with the outstanding features in a resort-like setting.
The planned hotel resort and spa in each community would be marketing to affluent travelers who are interested in eco and wellness resorts before completion and would create profits for the community. The healthcare clients would be housed in these locations, while undergoing diagnosis and treatment at the treatment facilities in the communities. As with all business enterprises, each unit has to be profitable and is expected to be so by serving needs as part of the community.
The healthcare facilities would be part of a global marketing effort with Women and Cancer, an Arizona 501(C) (3) that promotes access to recommended facilities through record albums and concerts to benefit the non-profit. Its first tribute album release is with Sir Paul McCartney in the spring of 2005 with all profits going to Women and Cancer. It will be the first of an ongoing series by world-renowned artists. The same management team that produced the Live AIDS global concerts will assist with the promotion of the communities and the healthcare facilities featuring integrative/bio-energetic/natural medicine. Outsourced medical care is a rapidly growing phenomenon for North American and Western Europe with nearly $5 billion dollars for 2003. It is strongly felt that the medical breakthroughs, available through the healthcare facilities, will have a global draw underscored by marketing the affiliated non-profits through their call centers and web sites, such as Women and Cancer. The clinics are expected to be profitable within six months of opening. The hospital in Mendoza is allowing three years before it is operationally in the black with profits, as recommended by the planners at HKS, Inc. for similar project undertaking. This has been factored into the project funding request. There are no hard figures for the integrative/bio-energetic/natural health delivery system, as the funding request is to prove what we have aggregated is much less costly and more efficacious treatment than allopathic medical delivery systems. The delivery will be fee-for-service, until more insurance pays for integrative medicine. A marketing effort will target North American and Western European corporations to send their employees with chronic degenerative cases that are beginning to bankrupt the healthiest of corporations. It is strongly felt that the healthcare facilities will be very profitable after a period of ramping up treatment capability within one year. Leading U.S. government economists are forecasting the successes of the “wellness” industry as the next trillion dollar industry based on an expanding broader audience and the responding higher financial possibilities projected.
The Life Sciences Group proposal has prepared an economic impact report stating that within three years, the companies will create over 1600 jobs in the client nation with over $900 million of gross revenues. The target margin would be 30% where ½ of gross profits, or $135 million would be returned to pay for any shortfalls within the project, which is not expected, with the balance to go towards a foundation formed within the client nation to fund ongoing indigent care at the healthcare facilities. This income further supports the viability of the hospitals and supports the mission of providing care to community members, who will have the means, and for those in the region who are indigent.
The expected output of the Research and Development will produce more than sufficient licensing income creating a substantial patent estate within one year of establishment. There is a large portfolio of existing technologies that simply need to be commercialized, establishing a pipeline of emerging successful ventures with private equity capital or with existing companies in the particular target niche. A portion of profits will be reinvested into technologies requiring more development and in to the general treasury of the True Vine Foundation.
It is expected for the project to receive tax abatements on the local, regional, and national level in the first five to ten years of the project. The communities will have the means to create and treat its own water, create renewable power utilizing proprietary technologies, and utilize proprietary technology to eliminate waste without a burden to the environment. The aforementioned technologies are scalable and can grow with the needs of the community, even providing services to the surrounding region for a profit.
Leadership and Management (resumes available in the Project Overview)
HKS, Inc. - With over twenty-two years of domestic and international healthcare design experience Ms. Debbie Larsen, will serve as Director of Special Projects for HKS on San Carlos and Mendoza - providing design, planning, engineering, and project management for this truly unique project. The HKS sixty plus years in healing architecture speaks for itself in having sufficient expertise to successfully guide our projects “Maya de Oro” located in San Carlos, Mexico and “Casa de Salud Ultimo” located in Mendoza, Argentina from planning to completion.
Quest Fusion Life Sciences Group - Dr. Paulette Lankford and her team will oversee the Life Sciences portion of the project, research and development, and the biotech/healthcare companies
True Vine Health/Quest Fusion Healthcare Management - Mr. Joseph Gagliardi and his international team oversees the equipping, staffing, training, and administration of the healthcare facilities
The Earth Collective S.A. de C.V. - Mr. Daniel Bilbruck (Co-Chairman of The Earth Collective) Mr. George Hunt, and Dr. Anthony Puddu will oversee the implementation of the self-sustaining community, implementation of community-based technologies, and equity producing plantations
The Project Management steering group for the True Vine Foundation shall include Dr. Stephen Cobble, Mr. Craig Stellpflug, Mr. Daniel Bilbruck, and Ms. Susan Djurkovic.
Legal: Mayo, Mendolia & Starr, L.L.P. with offices in Arlington and Tyler, Texas with international business and financial expertise.
Consultants: George Hunt & Associates, Pastor Henry Wright, Dr. Alicia Alvarez, Dr. Nicholas Meyer, Dr. Michael Cronin, Cert Test Training Center.
Affiliated Entities: Johnny Day Dreams Foundation; Women and Cancer; Pacific Tree; Eco Rancho’s, TechNet; Just Shrimp, Fine Homes, Smart Navigators, Inc., Saguaro Enterprises, Inc; Project C.U.R.E.; Bulldog IT, Inc.; Pleasant Valley Church, Inc.