chadlupkes on Nostr: Hello Nostr, I'm making this post because I'm going to ask for your help. I'm trying ...

Hello Nostr, I'm making this post because I'm going to ask for your help. I'm trying to #grownostr and I'm trying to onboard friends who really need to build a circular economy. Here's the story.

I made a connection several years ago through EverGreenCoin with someone who lives in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. His name is Jules and he is a refuge from the wars in the Congo, and when he arrived in Kakuma he was one of those people who saw needs and tried to fill them. He's an entrepreneur at heart. One of us.

He is a teacher of young children, he teaches music (guitar) to youth, he farms fish and he along with his friends have put together a large garden to grow food for his community. He has big dreams, and his only limitation is the economic foundation that he is struggling with. He started several organizations recognized by the UN, including Vision Art & Music for Youth and his latest venture is Strong Unity for Refugee Empowerment.

The nature of his economic foundation is donations. Along with so many of the people living in the camps, asking for money from the outside world is how they have raised funds in the fiat economy, and that has been true for decades. The Kakuma Refugee Camp is one of the largest, but there are dozens of these camps all over the world. The UN never has enough money to take care of the needs, and the lack of infrastructure keeps them nearly at subsistence level for quality of life.

I am absolutely convinced that Bitcoin can change this. And I am absolutely convinced that the lightning network and nostr can help push that change. So I need your help.

Because of the communications infrastructure, he is paying ~$50 USD per month for internet access, limited bandwidth that he maximizes every day. He was just today able to download Primal, but he is a bit worried that following the default set of npubs will blow through his bandwidth. So I'm recommending that he not follow anyone yet, just use the Messages section and the Wallet. miljan (npub16c0…6nvr) tells me that the Primal team is focused on optimizing the network traffic in Primal which should help with the bandwidth issues.

The next step is going to be getting him access to zaps and sats in money that he can use, which means he will also need to download the strike (npub1ex7…vyt9) app and connect it to a bank account. As soon as he does, we will be off to the races.

So what help do I need? Zaps is something easy, and every sat zapped onto this post or other post I make for Jules will go directly to him. As soon as I get his npub address I will provide it so that the zaps can go directly to him instead of through a middle man, because everyone hates middle men.

But more than that, I need a guide for him to download and use that will teach him and his community how to build a circular economy. Maybe this is something that we could put together on Wikifreedia from PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft). It could even be translated into multiple languages.

This weekend, I am hoping to be able to chat with Jules directly on Primal, and I'll let you know how it goes. Please zap this, share this, and spread the word. We're going to build these circular economies, and our zaps will BLOCK OUT THE SUN!