Muvezi.org

How Muvezi Works

Muvezi has been set up in a very unique way. Our combination of commerce and charity allows us to share humanitarian relief in a self-sustaining manner.

In short, we can help a lot of people, yet do not rely on donations.

What We Do

Muvezi provides Love Silver Sol to people in need, providing relief from infectious conditions.

Love Silver Sol supplies are funded through commercial projects that make a substantial donation every time a purchase is completed.

Distribution occurs through a network of partners that have established operations in impoverished countries around the world, minimizing costs while maximizing distribution effectiveness.

Our Commercial Projects: Guardian Silver Sol

Sales of Guardian Silver Sol (a commercial version of silver sol) fund the provision of Love Silver Sol.  Here’s how this program works:

Our Commercial Projects: Shona Stone Sculptures

Sales of stunningly beautiful stone sculptures from Zimbabwe fund the provision of Love Silver Sol with every purchase.

20% of revenue from each sale is dedicated to this end. In addition, financial stability and Love Silver Sol are provided to 200 stone carvers and their families in Zimbabwe, a nation suffering from complete economic chaos.

With a collection of over 3000 sculptures, Muvezi holds the largest collection of Shona art in the world. Sculptures are for sale through galleries in Mexico & Canada, and online at www.Muvezi.com.

Additional images from this project can be seen here.

How Muvezi Works – A Unique, Self-Sustaining Charity

The following diagram shows how Muvezi converts revenue from a variety of sources into health benefits for the poor:

Several streams of revenue contribute to the organization.  Each of these streams is transformed into Love Silver Sol with as little overhead as possible. Love Silver Sol is then distributed in a variety of ways.

A Closer Look at Muvezi’s Financial Structure

While money is certainly not the focus of our goals, it does helps people work together and permits various forms of participation to function. The following points elaborate on the Muvezi structural model shown above:

1) Revenue/ Donation – Several options are available for people who want to contribute:

• Commercial revenue from Guardian Silver and Muvezi.com allow Muvezi Inc. to make substantial donations to Muvezi Health Projects Society.  By far, this commercial activity provides the majority of the means to distribute Love Silver Sol.
• For those who simply wish to donate Love Silver Sol to people in need, we also provides the opportunity to make direct donations. Donations have as close to 100% flow-through as possible.
• To be added soon, by you: more options. We invite you to submit creative ideas or propose relationships with established groups that feed into this model. By cooperating on compatible goals, everyone wins.

2) Conversion – We get very close to 100% flow-through (converting revenue/donations into Love Silver Sol) as a result of the following facts:

• No salaries, bonuses, or other personal incentives are drawn from or associated with Muvezi Health Projects Society.
• We have almost no distribution costs as a result of our partnership with other charities for the distribution of Love Silver.
• Hard costs are kept minimal.  We have no fleet of SUVs, no travel expenses, no lobbyists, no network of offices to sustain, no corporate expense accounts, and no other dubious “needs”. Our infrastructure is our network of people, not a collection of expensive nouns!
• Volunteerism covers most of the “cost” of running Muvezi Health Projects Society (record keeping, building relationships with partner charities, updating this website, etc.).  Volunteer efforts by people like you allow Muvezi Health Projects Society to operate with near zero costs.

3) Distribution – Love Silver Sol is distributed to those in need:

• Through our network of people fighting malaria in Africa.
• Through our network of approved partner charities and organizations, including charitable foundations for the underprivileged in Mexico, Nepal, India…
• To be added soon, by you: more options. We invite you to submit creative ideas or propose relationships with established groups that feed out of this model. By cooperating on compatible goals, everyone wins.

A Closer Look at Muvezi’s Legal Structure

Muvezi’s organizational structure allows groups of people to participate in a variety of ways, collectively contributing toward common goals.

As such, Muvezi operates as two legal entities:

• Muvezi Health Projects Society, a registered Canadian charity which converts donations from Muvezi Inc. and other sources into Love Silver Sol for free distribution to those in need.
• Muvezi Inc., which operates Guardian Silver and Muvezi.com, is organized as a normal business but donates significant amounts to Muvezi Health Projects Society.  Muvezi Inc. is structured to provide as much money to the charity as possible while still managing itself in sustainable manner. Muvezi Inc. also offers opportunities for individuals to participate in their own partner businesses which contribute funds to the charity, allowing groups of people to participate in sharing Love who would otherwise have to find replacement personal income from non-affiliated sources.
• Together, these two aspects of Muvezi strive to provide as much Love as possible, as quickly as possible.

These legal and financial models have been built to enable a wide range of people to transform goodwill into action. If you have any questions about this portion of Muvezi, please contact us and we’ll explain in greater detail.

An Open Charity

Prior to your arrival, Muvezi addressed all kinds of issues so it would be easy for you to participate once you got here. Within our legal, financial and organizational architecture, important portions of the project were left open, waiting for someone with ingenuity and perseverance to plug in.

Setting this framework up wasn’t easy, but we wanted your involvement to be as logistics-free as possible once you got here.

Now, you can decide how to make use of this platform.  In particular, the following areas are ripe for your collaboration:

• Finding new distribution partners – If you run or know of an organization working with infectious conditions that could help with the distribution of Love Silver Sol to impoverished people, you are invited to start forging this connection.
• Finding new sources of revenue – If you run or know of an organization that could help raise funds for Muvezi, either as a direct donation or as an endorsed commercial partner that provides a portion of revenue to Muvezi, you are invited to start forging this connection.
• Brilliant ideas – If you have unique ideas for getting involved or otherwise contributing a missing piece to the Muvezi puzzle, please let us know.

Our goal in providing this open platform is to allow as many contributors as possible to get involved, likely in ways we couldn’t have imagined ourselves.

We’ve provided a framework. How will you plug in?

How much Love can you share?