Prosperity Studios Encourages US Veterans Opportunities to Work on the President's Legacy -- Hope on AFRICA Program

The President's Legacy -- Hope on AFRICA is an international public/private partnership lead by Prosperity Studios Inc. The private sector has committed $55 billion of inward investment specifically to fund healthcare and orphancare in Africa from 2007-2010.

Congress has recognized the critical needs of Veterans returning from conflict zones and wants to create opportunities for redeployment, retraining and social entrepreneurship.

Ambassador Hope, Chair of Prosperity Studios, says, "We have been working with Vets since 2001, they are natural Social Entrepreneurs, they have a unique combination of talents, they enjoy being in service to others, they are highly skilled and self-disciplined."

She continues, "We will be providing opportunities for at least 25,000 vets to serve the unmet needs of the sick and orphans in Africa. It's a priceless, life-enhancing opportunity for Vets to do good and do well."

Thirteen Veterans organizations are inviting their members to the Veterans Summit so they can bid for contracts. Veterans & Military Families for Progress, Veterans For Progress of America, Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, Disabled American Vets, Paralyzed Vets of America, Blinded Veterans Association, Woman in Military Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Vietnam Vets of America, Empowering Veterans, National Veterans Foundation and the National Guard.

On Capital Hill, both Republican and Democrats agree that creating new and innovative opportunities for returning Veterans is top priority.

Speaker Pelosi, Senator's Carey (D-MA), Chabot (R-OH) Landrieu (D-LA), Snowe (R-ME), and Webb (D-VA) are backing the innovative redeployment plan plus Congresswoman Shea-Porter (D-NH), Congressmen Braley (D-IA), Carney (D-PA), Gilchrest (R-MD), Hare (D-IL) Hodes (D-NH), Murphy (R-PA), Peterson (D-MN), Rodriguez (D-TX), Sestak (D-PA), Smith (R-NJ), Space (D-OH), Walz (D-MN) and Whitehouse (D-RI).

Jose Fonseca, Chief Operating Officer at Prosperity Studios will be co-coordinating the Veteran's Summit to promote the opportunities for Veterans and Veteran-owned businesses. Volunteers are needed in Washington, DC to organize the Summit.

Opportunities for Veterans and Veteran-owned businesses include:

1) Mobilization of 13 million Vets to become Virtual Parents for the 13 million orphans in Africa by working with www.military.com and www.vets.org.

2) Teams of Veterans to go to 53 African countries and digitally database the orphans working with our local Program Directors. Skills must include digital photography, Microsoft Excel and databases.

3) Re-training of returning Vets with skills to serve on the Program.

4) Customer Service Contracts -- online and by phone support to Virtual Parents (set aside for paralyzed, disabled and blind vets).

5) 2,200 teams of vets with survival skills and physical strength to work with local laborers to create bricks, clear land and lay foundations for the Children's Villages.

6) Contracts of 6,000 units of furniture, lighting, chairs, equipment, fittings, technologies etc for Vet-owned manufacturing businesses (can partner with existing local disabled groups).

7) Seek and find contract for Vets to locate used equipment for micro-enterprises and negotiate tax-write off or revenue share deal and organize shipping to specific Children's Villages. E.g. machines to cut chickens into quarters are needed. Chicken processors in the US can be located to provide de-commissioned machines (Recycling of materials and equipment is a core Program policy).

8) Vet inspectors to test soil and award Minority farmers with contracts to grow organic, nutritious fruit and vegetables for the orphans and also provide technology transfer so they can grow cash crops for Fair Trade distributors.

Prosperity Studios, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation which manages Intellectual Capital and provides international public/private partnerships for social transformation. The company combines innovation, collaboration, technology, global supply chains and private sector funding in a stakeholder model. Prosperity Studios solves global challenges at the scale and speed of the need.