Making The UNBELIEVABLE Happen..!

Community 100 Empowered:

SOWETO Orlando East Launch - May 2009

Making The UNBELIEVABLE Happen – The Process - There Ain’t Nothing Easy!

This is a photo journal of a community leveraging something BIG from nothing!

Prepared by Trevor Nel – innercircle@tiscali.co.za - 27 11 705-2790

1. – Spend every weekend for 4-6 months preparing participant stakeholders

Trevor Nel (Community 100) and Nancy Nxumalo (President: Soweto Chamber of Commerce & Industries)
planting seeds with founding stakeholders – Photos: Ivan Andersen (Community 100)

2. – Get to meet with and know every stakeholder personally – photo/profile all 100

3. – Slowly build credibility with small groups – introduce samples and value

4. – Build the enthusiasm and begin the extreme makeover of the tuckshop premises

5. – Set the task and leave it to the community to make magic happen in 48 hours

6. – Prepare to witness the UNBELIEVABLE unfold before your very eyes

7. – Ezekial (center): ‘God sends Taylor with pure heart, free of sin, to bless us’

8. – The BIG Launch Day Arrives – how to impress your banking partners – deliver

9. – The dignitaries have their say

10. – Always thank your banking partners – NEDBANK Makes Things Happen

11. Allow all stakeholders to celebrate in the success of their enterprise

12. Allow time for cultural activities and celebrations by local youth

13. Nice shop… but where’s the space for the trolleys..?

14. We don’t use trolleys… we use forklifts – over 10 000 sq.m. of warehousing

15. We can access 16 000 sq.m. fertile land (borehole) nearby for vegetable farming

16. It all begins with a dream… and taking consistent action to implement it

17. Bringing it all together

centre: Community 100 Orlando East tuckshop front

top left: Community 100 Empowered stakeholders preparing to work on shopbottom

left: Hard at work preparing the makeovermiddle left: Trevor Nel - concept co-developer - pointing to 'HISTORY in the making' at launch function

top centre: Co-op Chairman - Vusi Gama - and Nedbank's Leon Daniels about to cut the ribbon

top right: Community 100 Empowered stakeholders at launch function

centre right: The distribution warehouse 'break-pack' cage

bottom right: The 10 000 sq.m. distribution warehouse bulk-pack back-end

bottom centre: Ivan Andersen - concept co-developer - at another supply chain distribution warehouse