| The International Community |
 The International Community
"I salute you for your imaginative approach and wish you continued success in its application. What you and your RainTrust colleagues are doing is highly laudable and very close to my own field of passion and concern. Congratulations! And, on behalf of all rainforests and indigenous people... Thank you!" 
— Michael Moller Director of Political, Peace-keeping and Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the Secretary-General United Nations
"I am deeply impressed by the magnitude and importance of your great Brazilian venture. I cannot imagine of any other project that could accomplish so much: a valid solution to the most serious problems of deforestation in Brazil, with reasonable hopes to avert a global climatic catastrophe, while giving the local stake-holders in the rain-forest the opportunity to a livelihood that is profitable and sustainable."
"Why do we underestimate the entrepreneurial side of poor people when we admire it so on rich people? It is not acceptable to have 4.5 Billion people out of 6 who reside at the bottom of the economic pyramid. In order to try and achieve the United Nations Millennium development goals we need to go beyond politics and so called human rights embargos and develop the entrepreneurial skills of the poorest where ever they may be. RainTrust was developed as a tool to assist in the facilitation in helping the poor people who should be considered business people and not charitable cases, entrepreneurs and not victims, value conscious consumers and not a burden to society. A world where the poorest people are considered by big business as the heart of their profit making strategies. The only way to solve the problems of poverty and terrorism in the world today is through investment. Whatever else we do to help the poor, local entrepreneurs have the power to create the greatest change for their countries. The entrepreneurial spirit does not have to be imported."
"As a passionate global citizen with a mission, I firmly believe that poverty and social injustice can ultimately be eradicated, provided that global nature preservation and conservation go in tandem. These are four NON-SEPARABLE issues. In our pursuit of Paradise, we trample and destroy the Garden of Eden. Realistic approaches and solutions are available to us all, if we just open our eyes to the possibilities. We can and MUST address humanity's reversible fate.  "The most powerful tools of change need to spark the imagination and empower us all as indviduals to believe we each can make a difference, because we can. Almost everything we see and read each day in the media sadly leads us in the opposite direction. We are all made to feel and perceive ourselves as powerless victims of external factors so large, potent and complex that there is no point in even trying to make a difference, no point in taking responsibility. And as quantum physics has taught us in very clear terms, perception is indeed reality. We all know the challenges are many and complex, but they are only unsurmountable if we collectively choose them to be so. In taking responsibility upon ourselves to be part of the solution we regain our vital role as humble and conscious caretakers of this planet. The planet provides us with all the essential elements we need for our life: clean water, clean air, healty food and nutrients from the earth and the seas. All this and more is given to us in abundance and with such generosity of spirit by the fragile yet robust ecosystem we inhabit. How myopic and barbaric our response to such selfless generosity. I applaud Rain Trust for the elegance with which it tackles complex fundamental economic and ecological issues and simultaneously ignites our imaginations to retrieve the conviction that each and everyone of us, one at a time and together, can indeed make a very real difference and play our part in building a sustainable future where nature, indigenous people and the post-industrial information age world can live side by side in harmony. We do of course always have a choice, but it seems quite clear that the alternatives do not offer promising longterm prospects." — Simone Haggiag (Rome, Italy) |
