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:title: Complementary Currency: Business Network Creation
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:author: Will Ruddick
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:date: Nov 27, 2012
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:slug: complementary-currency
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:summary: With our partners, Koru works with small community businesses of Bangladesh, Kenya, in order to implement a complementary currency...
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With our partners, Koru works with small community businesses of Bangladesh, Kenya, in order to implement a complementary currency system.
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Bangladesh, Kenya is an informal settlement of approximatly 20 000 inhabitants and 200 businesses located outside Mombasa Kenya - map here. Our first community meetings were mobilized through a local clinic, the local church as well as a youth group. Local business owners were asked to come participate in a 2 hour workshop described briefly as Business Networking.
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The purpose of these sessions was to:
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1. Gauge business community interest in Complementary Currencies (mutual credit).
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2. Identify benefits and challenges of a Complementary Currency
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3. Talk about barter and how it is already being used in the community.
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4. Talk about how money is used for barter and in general in the community
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5. Speak about benefits and challenges of both barter and money.
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6. Identify and visualize the existing business networks in the community.
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7. Plan next steps.
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For a full report on the first two meetings visit:
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| `Meeting 1 <http://communityforge.net/Bangladesh_Kenya_1st_Meeting>`_
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| `Meeting 2 <http://communityforge.net/Bangladesh_Kenya_2nd_Meeting>`_
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These meetings will continue in January and help lead the way for base line data collection, community ownership and implementation.
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.. image:: images/blog/complementary-currency1.webp
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`#complementarycurrencies <https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/blog/hashtags/complementarycurrencies>`_ `#bangla <https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/blog/hashtags/bangla>`_
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