The Global Village

The Global Village  

 

Project Preamble: The Global Village is being created to furnish a new paradigm for treating children’s cancer with an inventive approach and innovative environment by Teach About, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that was established in 1999 to teach humanity about the unbearable costs of violence, corruption and prejudice and the untold benefits of nonviolence, altruism and tolerance. Teach About guarantees measurability, demonstrability and duplicability, as well as frugality, transparency and the incorruptness of The Global Village.

 

Project Profile: The Global Village is a multinational, multiracial, multiethnic and multicultural project that will include the world’s first holistic children’s cancer center along with the world’s first cancer nursing college, furnishing free cancer treatment for selected children and cancer nursing training for young people. It will be providing long-term cancer therapy to 300 children at any one time, as well as support to enable one of their parents to live with them, and cancer-nursing training to 150 young people. Since The Global Village is being created to benefit the entire world, its beneficiaries will include all of the world’s countries and territories, comprising 192 countries, Taiwan and the Palestinian territories. It will employ 400 people.

 

Project Location: The Global Village is located on a 252-acre site at 887 Atascadero Road in the picturesque and pristine Central California town of Morro Bay, in the County of San Luis Obispo. It is graced by a spectacular and sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean, Morro Bay and the sacred Morro Rock, and by the harmony between the depth of the blue Pacific Ocean and the height of the polychromatic volcanic peaks called the Nine Sisters (the Morros). The Global Village campus will sit on 243 acres on the north side of Highway 41, which bisects the property. Nine acres on the south side will serve as a delivery center.

 

Project Uniqueness: The Global Village will include the world’s first holistic children’s cancer center and the world’s first cancer nursing college. Its inventive approach and innovative environment will furnish a new paradigm for treating children with cancer, equipping and motivating them to conquer cancer quicker and better. Its uniqueness will be exemplified by its commitment to providing myriad therapies to complement the most modern allopathic treatment and everything children need to lead a normal child’s life in spite of their cancer, including the unique joy of having one of their parents living with them.

 

The Global Village will be unlike any other pediatric oncology center, ensuring children’s ready and easy access to nature. Out of the 243 acres, only five acres will be built up. The remaining 238 acres will be open space, including a 10-acre lake; three ponds; a 50-acre zoological garden featuring horses, deer, goats, antelopes, llamas and lambs; and a 50-acre organic vegetable, herbal, fruit and flower garden. Trees of different species and blooms will be interspersed with every type of manmade outdoor facility children cherish. No effort will be spared to save children from breathing polluted air, as well as to minimize the greenhouse gas effect and global warming – for instance, no fossil-fuel vehicle will be allowed on the 243-acre campus.

 

To ensure children’s wellness, wellbeing and delight, The Global Village will be devoid of the “cancer ward blues,” featuring an inviting atmosphere and a festive environment. Rather than being cooped up indoors, children will have every imaginable facility and opportunity to enjoy nature’s marvels, delights, magic and thrills.

 

Project Distinction: The Global Village will be distinct because it offers 300 children at any one time from each of the world’s countries and territories the privilege of living together while healing, learning, sharing and growing into global citizens. Its 150 nursing students from around the world will have the opportunity to profit from each other’s diversity. Apart from regular educational sessions, as guided by the mission of Teach About, The Global Village will teach both children and trainees lessons on the costs of violence, prejudice and corruption; the rewards of nonviolence, altruism and tolerance; the grandeur of human dignity, human rights, and human equality; the merits of flawless democracy; the detriments of flawed democracy; the tragedy of despotism; and the squander of ideology.

 

Project Narrative: The main component of The Global Village will be a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, world-class children’s cancer center with modern facilities, advanced technologies, distinguished doctors and a proficient staff, providing the most advanced holistic long-term cancer care for 300 children at any one time. Each child will be living with one of his or her parents in a one-room, two-bath suite until he or she is healed. To help children heal better and quicker, the most modern allopathic treatment will be complemented by other therapies like Ayurveda, acupuncture, homeopathy, glycobiology, yoga, tai chi, Pilates, organic diet, herbal massage, meditation, and art therapy.

 

Underscoring the critical role of nature and outdoor activities in healing, The Global Village will ensure children’s ready and easy access to nature. It will provide every imaginable recreational facility for activities like field sports, water sports, children’s games, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, horseback riding, physical training, cycling, art lessons and sport coaching. Its outdoor facilities will include a lake, ponds, gardens, gazebos, pavilions, pathways, picnic areas, art parks, a zoological garden, a flower-fruit garden, aquatic facilities, a waterpark, sun decks, sport sites, running tracks, hiking trails and horse trails.

 

Overlooking the Ocean, the Bay and the Rock and featuring the Nine Sisters as its backdrop, the 200,000-square-foot main building will house the cancer center, nursing college and children’s school. Behind it will lie a 100,000-square-foot building to house offices and auxiliary facilities.

 

Nowhere else in the world is there a school to train nurses specifically in the care of cancer patients. In return for free training, the graduates of the world’s first cancer-nursing college will commit to working at The Global Village at a competitive salary for two years, followed by three years in their country of residence. In 2027, The Global Village will include a pediatric oncology research center to evaluate the extent to which its children’s cancer center has succeeded with its inventive approach and innovative environment in healing children’s cancer quicker and better than other children’s cancer centers.

 

Nature’s Role: To help children lead an active, normal life, The Global Village will offer myriad opportunities to be challenged and comforted by nature. Being explorers, children thrive in the outdoors. With their instinctive fascination and excitement about nature, they are captivated and intrigued, absorbed and enchanted, mystified and mesmerized by the sky’s blueness, the horizon’s brilliance, the sunset’s splendor, the Ocean’s vastness, the Bay’s placidity, the hills’ contours and the Rock’s sacredness. The magical thrill of their communion with nature helps to foster their courage and confidence, nurture their motivation and optimism, build up their morale and spirit, and replenish their buoyancy and adventure, all of which will help to hasten their healing.

 

Progress Realized: Ongoing progress ensures that Teach About will be able to open The Global Village to provide cancer treatment for children and cancer nursing training for young people from around the world no later than January 2020. Its founder, a development economist with experience at the United Nations Secretariat, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, United Nations Development Programme, and World Bank, will be donating $10 million through annual contributions. Since 1999 he has paid all of Teach About’s expenses, and he plans to continue doing so until Teach About starts receiving donations. Various project development activities, including architectural and engineering plans, are in progress.

 

Guaranteed Transparency: Teach About will list contemporaneously every donation received and every expenditure incurred on its website, www.teachabout.org. No more than 5 percent of its total annual receipts will be spent on overhead, including fundraising costs. The founder, who is currently the chairman and president, will never accept a salary, and will pay all of his own travel expenses

 

Board of Directors: To ensure economy and integrity in the use of donations, a Board of Directors for Teach About will be constituted exclusively of donors who contribute $10 million or more. Since the founder will be donating $10 million, he is a member of the Board. No director will ever receive any remuneration. A committee of professionals and specialists will be created to advise the Board.

 

Project Budget: The Global Village initially needs $450 million: $90 million to construct two buildings totaling 300,000 square feet along with various outdoor facilities, and the remaining $360 million to create an endowment that will generate $25 million a year to cover yearly operating costs. Medical equipment and products will be sought as donations from medical corporations. The budget for the pediatric oncology research center will be presented in 2025.

 

Global Funding: Although The Global Village is created for the benefit of every country and territory in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Oceania, and Europe, for funding Teach About will rely only on 28 countries selected on the basis of their ranks in social progress, per capita income and press freedom, as well as the Vatican and Taiwan. Requests for funding will be sent to those countries’ and Taiwan’s international development assistance agencies, major foundations, large corporations and billionaires. Funding will also be sought from the Vatican and international and multilateral agencies.

 

Funding Request: Teach About requests that Foundation Anonymous determine the size of its donation with due consideration for both the merits and needs of The Global Village.

 

AB. Sunil Kayal