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Recently, Control-Z (owned by Rotarian Walle Mafolasire) were approached by Microsoft about doing a best practices case study/white paper on how to properly execute an extremely complicated overhaul of email infrastructure based on the work Control-Z performed for Marian University.
As an architect for 40 years and CEO of his own firm for nearly 35, Wayne Schmidt has designed all manner of projects and handled an array of challenges.
And then there is his latest project: designing a compact, solar-powered, sustainable university in the middle of an African rainforest.
“We’ve had big challenges, but not like this,” Schmidt said. “And this one is unique because we’re starting with no infrastructure.
“But it’s also an opportunity. See, it just looks like a problem....
The Calnali Microfinance Project provides small loans and other support—training, education on basic financial management—to citizens in Calnali, State of Hidalgo, Mexico so that they can become self-sufficient, provide for their families, offer needed products in their communities and share their traditional crafts throughout Mexico and the world.
The intent of a microfinance project is that the people who receive loans pay the loans back with interest, thus maintaining and even growing the pool of funds for the next set of potential entrepreneurs. The project also...