Ubuntu Start Up Support Plan

1. Purpose of this Schedule

This Schedule records the one-time start-up support agreed for the five founding women and their Ubuntu Community. It serves four purposes:

• to state clearly what Ubuntu Goats has agreed to provide;
• to show the condition or stage at which each item may be provided;
• to record what was actually bought, delivered or paid;
• to confirm when the agreed start-up support has been completed.

The amounts below are maximum working budgets. Local prices must be checked before any commitment is made. A budgeted amount is not an automatic cash entitlement.

2. General rules

• Support is released only after the relevant stage of The Road to Becoming an Ubuntu Community has been completed satisfactorily.
• Money may be used only for the item or service for which it was approved.
• An equivalent item that is safer, more durable or more suitable locally may replace a listed item only after prior approval.
• A higher price does not automatically increase Ubuntu Goats’ maximum contribution.
• A lower actual price does not create a right to receive the difference in cash.
• Unused amounts remain with Ubuntu Goats and are not divided among the women.
• Essential animal-welfare care is never withheld merely to test commitment.
• The founding launch payment in section 9 is different: after it has been earned and paid, it belongs personally to the woman and its private use is not prescribed.

3. Readiness and individual goat-care items

Before the goats are delivered, each woman must be able to provide the basic daily care of her goat. The table records whether each item was provided by Ubuntu Goats, contributed by the woman or community, or replaced by an approved local equivalent.

No separate cash allowance is created by this table. An Ubuntu Goats contribution exists only when an amount or item is expressly entered and approved below.

4. Shared care equipment

Ubuntu Goats provides the following shared equipment directly or pays the supplier. The current maximum total budget is GMD 6,000. The equipment belongs to the group and must remain available for the care of all participating goats.

5. Communal goat shelter

The community contributes the agreed labour and suitable locally available materials. Ubuntu Goats provides a maximum contribution of GMD 15,000 for missing materials, transport and limited necessary skilled work.

The contribution is normally released in no more than two stages and paid directly to suppliers or service providers. The second stage is released only after the first agreed construction milestone has been checked.

5.1 Community contribution

5.2 Ubuntu Goats shelter contribution

5.3 Construction milestones

6. The five founding goats

Ubuntu Goats purchases five suitable young female goats. The current maximum working budget is GMD 6,000 per goat and GMD 30,000 in total. Each payment is made directly to the seller wherever reasonably possible.

A photograph or other simple identification record for each goat should be attached or referenced in Schedule 1 of the Community Agreement.

7. Selection and transport of the goats

The current maximum working budget for finding, checking and safely transporting the five goats is GMD 9,500.

8. Initial animal-health care

Ubuntu Goats directly arranges or pays for the agreed initial health check, deworming and vaccination. The current maximum working budget is GMD 3,500.

9. One-time founding launch payment

Each of the five founding women receives a fixed one-time launch payment of GMD 2,000 after all of the following conditions have been met:

• the preparatory stages have been completed and accepted;
• the communal shelter is ready and accepted;
• the shared equipment has been received and recorded;
• the Community Agreement has been explained and signed;
• each woman has received her goat;
• the initial goat and delivery records are complete.

This payment is recognition of the founding women’s completed preparation and participation. It is not a material allowance, reimbursement, wage or continuing payment. After payment, Ubuntu Goats does not prescribe its private use. Women who join later do not automatically receive it.

10. Ubuntu Goat Library and initial guidance

Each woman receives access to the Ubuntu Goat Library and a simple explanation of how it can be used. The library includes practical information about basic needs, food and water, shelter, illness, parasites, hoof care, breeding, pregnancy, birth, young kids, milking and the health of a growing herd.

The library does not replace advice from an experienced animal-health worker or veterinarian when a goat is seriously ill or injured.

11. Summary of the recorded start-up support

The summary does not include liaison compensation, ongoing project administration, central reserves, later Community Fund expenses or support for women who join later. Those matters are governed separately.

12. Items not promised by this Schedule

Unless Ubuntu Goats agrees otherwise in writing, this Schedule does not create an undertaking to continue paying for:

• feed after the agreed initial support;
• future medicines, veterinary care or routine vaccination;
• repairs or replacement materials after the start-up period;
• a replacement goat;
• mobile phones, phone credit or internet access;
• household or personal expenses;
• continuing payments to the founding women;
• the same founding package for women who join later.

13. Final completion confirmation

By signing or placing a thumbprint below, the five women confirm that this Schedule was explained in a language they understand; the entries are accurate to the best of their knowledge; the recorded goats, equipment and support were received as stated; and any support still outstanding is clearly identified below.

Document relationship: this Schedule records the one-time start-up support. Ownership and continuing responsibilities are governed by the Ubuntu Goats Community Agreement. The liaison’s compensation and duties are governed by a separate liaison agreement. Future use of the Ubuntu Community Fund is governed by the Community Agreement and the fund arrangements recorded in Schedule 3.