Why won't our supposedly Christian nation do things like this to help the poor?http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/tca-wbf092914.php
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 2-Oct-2014
Contact: Terry Collins
Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology
To help solve slums, innovators build jobs, food security into affordable housing blueprints
Building on the poverty relief success achieved through self-sustaining high-tech "smart villages," Malaysian innovators have created blueprints for an urban counterpart that combines affordable homes, food security and sustainable jobs, aiming to solve the growing global problem of squalid city slums.
Like the 50-acre smart village sites, the 5-acre urban version provides affordable accommodation with educational and community facilities and incorporates innovative employment opportunities and food security through aquaculture and state-of-the-art water-efficient greenhouse-based agriculture.
The city neighbourhood model features a pre-fabricated, four-story walk-up apartment building created largely from post-consumer materials.
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Already, Malaysia's "smart villages" have lifted incomes for several hundred rural families while promoting environmental sustainability.
Three are now completed, four in progress and 15 planned for next two years in Malaysia. The model is also being adopted in Africa.
Each smart village consists of about 100 affordable, energy-efficient, pre-fabricated homes, high-tech connected educational, training and recreational facilities, with an integrated, sustainable farm system providing villagers with food and employment -- on average tripling income to about US $500 per month.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Malaysia
Malaysia is a multicultural and multiconfessional country. As of the 2010 Population and Housing Census, 61.3 percent of the population practices Islam; 19.8 percent Buddhism; 9.2 percent Christianity; 6.3 percent Hinduism; and 1.3 percent traditional Chinese religions. The remainder is accounted for by other faiths, including Animism, Folk religion, Sikhism and other belief systems.
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