Bringing Employment Opportunities To The People Rather Than People To The Employment Opportunities – SFNEDN
How many of us want to be close to home in the last years of our life? I believe most of us want to be close to our home and the place where we were born. Humans have a strong homing instinct. So how can we develop our home if we spend our youth and middle age in a far-away place? This brings me to the concept of bringing employment opportunities to the people rather than people to the employment opportunities.
I once saw a picture of a community in the Northern part of Saskatchewan. It had about a hundred houses. When I searched for more pictures, I came across one that was taken about a century ago. It had about seven houses. So, the growth rate for this community is about ninety houses in as many years i.e. 1 per year. As the community grows so will the infrastructure such as buildings, roads, water, sewer, healthcare and public facilities. In a hundred years there is 1 school, 1 health care facility, a few kilometers of roads, water, sewer and 1 water treatment plant. Briefly, if we see the span of 100 years, it is not much and the development per year is minimal. If this is planned well, it is possible to create and maintain this facility with a small amount of money. But more so, this is also a job creating facility. At least 25% of the community can be gainfully employed for the creation and maintenance of this facility.
