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Significant progress has been made towards peace and justice by efforts of AU, but more efforts are needed to create awareness about food security, ecosystems, quality education, climate action and gender equality.

Since its creation Team “Many Many Beginnings” an international NGO presented the Rural Smart Deal, a new growth strategy for Rural African Villages – aiming to transform the Rural into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive “social enterprise” called Smart Rural where food-security, education and climate and environmental challenges are addressed and turned into opportunities. And this while making the transition just and inclusive for all the villagers – who just need to fulfill a single criteria – to reside only a walking-distance far from the eco-system center- to benefit from all the “Rocket Benefits” that generates economic but also non-quantifiable benefits to the community.

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ARTBOX is a catalyst in the transformation of communities into an integrated, economically vibrant and democratically governed ‘social enterprise – smart community’ that assures holistic security to the population and is capable to provide equal access to modern technologies and of permanent peaceful conflict management. This can be only possible through youth empowerment, unleashing young people’s compassionate creativity using art and literature to counter the rising culture of exclusion, violence, and disconnection that affects us all. Across the globe there is a frightening rise in extremism, isolation, and despair. We seem have lost our basic capacity to come together to solve problems, to view other people’s needs as our own, and to cross lines of difference to build community. Meanwhile, there are too many young people across the globe, many with ideas on how to solve the world’s most entrenched problems, but only a very few have access to tools, mentors, and capital to turn their insights into reality. ARTBOX is changing this – with global support. ARTBOX project collects globalized wisdom and suport and turn ideas into efforts changing this big picture- without egos or barriers from language, religion, politics or other issues being involved. To answer such challeneges requires a dedicated local Management Team in the Village being trained over a half a year.

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One of the many training sessions include solar energy, biogas production, vertical farming, social enterprise, social management and how to turn deforestation into reforestation using agroforestry.

What defines ARTBOX as "social" is its recognition of the often overlooked fact that nearly all our present ecological problems arise from deep-seated social problems. Conversely, present ecological problems cannot be clearly understood, much less resolved, without resolutely dealing with problems within society. To make this point more concrete: economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations we face today--apart, to be sure, from those that are produced by natural catastrophes.

Team Many Many Beginnings aims at reminding us that the real battleground on which the ecological future of the planet will be decided is clearly a social one. The way human beings deal with each other as social beings is crucial to addressing the ecological crisis. Unless we clearly recognize this, we will surely fail to see that the hierarchical mentality and class relationships that so thoroughly permeate society give rise to the very idea of dominating the natural world which has a bad habit of coming back to its originator like a boomerang.