Regenerative Food, Med-aCar and aCar Mobility Updates
American Christian International Foundation (ACIF)
African Health and Agricultural Foundation (AHAF)
April, 2017 Q2
aCar® Mobility
aCar® mobility project has made excellent strides toward preparing the finished prototype to go to
Africa for ongoing extended field testing and use. This July, the prototype will find its way first to
Ghana (and then we hope to get it to Nigeria to test on Med-aCar® and on our Regenerative Food
Industry projects). KNUST University (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
will be the initial partner university on it. ACIF/AHAF has had a standing relationship with the
aCar® related faculty there.
Second, we hope to bring it to
FUTO, the Nigerian Federal
University of Technology in
Owerri after this for a second wave
of testing
The prototype as it stands now is
pictured to the right.
Most recently, aCar® was granted
TÜV approval, which is the
German approval saying that the
vehicle is now road worthy. One
can see a short clip of the vehicle
on a test track at this website…
http://a-c-i-f.org/resources/201611-30-Sine-with-dwell.m4v
The bulk of the effort now, not related to performing the finishing touches on the prototype, are
aimed at creating the future for assembling the vehicle.
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The first step is to create a small-scale facility that manufactures ten to twenty vehicles.
These would allow further testing in various applications. Our intention here is to see this
done in Germany. It would allow us to develop part suppliers, get the details lined out and
make the necessary scale up learnings that will guide larger scale assembly efforts. The
aCar® team is working toward a wider debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show this September.
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Second, a larger scale assembly effort capable of making 1000+ vehicles is in the
development phase now. Several potential partners have stepped forward demonstrating
interest in being part of this. Some of these have been supporters from the early moments
of aCar®, even before we “branded” it aCar®.
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Third, assembly will be initiated in Africa and potentially other developing countries, that
have expressed interest. The utility of aCar®/Med-aCar® is proving to have broad appeal
and applicability.
Speaking of the early moments of aCar®, we created a telling collage of some of the steps that
collective team worked through from the earliest stages, where it was a wall of little yellow slips
with ideas on them in 2013, all the way up to its lustre today. Enjoy.
Med-aCar®
Med-aCar® is officially off the ground! AHAF/ACIF hired Tony Osondu RN to be our first
“Filed Director,” the title we are giving the medical personnel who will manage the village based
vehicles. He is a registered nurse, graduated from Holy Rosary Nursing College a couple of years
ago, who has been affiliated with Med-aCar® since its inception a few years ago. Tony has been
instrumental in He has made arrangements to set up the base station for Med-aCar® in Okwu
Uratte, Imo State, Nigeria. It will be on the property of St. Patrick a brand-new parish there in the
community. It’s so new that we have purchased a tent to conduct medical care there. We have yet
to raise enough funding to purchase a vehicle to take medical care to the people in the community,
a basic deliverable of Med-aCar®. Come next year (2018), we will be provided with an official
Med-aCar® vehicle from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The aCar assembly team is
taking steps to have 10 – 20 vehicles made as described in the aCar® update above. You can learn
more about Med-aCar@ at this website… http://a-c-i-f.org/page23/page70/index.html
We also have a local doctor, Dr. Valentine Opene M.D., a gynecologist in practice, who is helping
with the oversight of the program. He has joined a Steering Team of Advisors that we are
beginning to form to help govern and guide Med-aCar® along the way. Dr. Opene owns a small
women’s hospital in the region near Uratta. He is a very good man and an excellent resource. Fr.
Dan Anyanwu, now studying for his PhD in the USA, and formerly a long time Finance Director
for the Archdiocese of Owerri, is also providing guidance and has joined our Steering Team. He
will also provide ongoing support once he has completed his “study sabbatical”, here in the USA,
and returned to the Owerri Archdiocese in Imo, State Nigeria.
Project – RFI (Regenerative Food Industry)
Several steps of progress have been made toward building a Regenerative Food Industry now. A US
company called Green World Ventures (GWV) has been established. Its local Nigerian subsidiary,
GW Regenerative Food Industries, Ltd. (GWRFI), has begun making Moringa Flour on a manual
basis. Our farming Coop, Aku-Ubi, has coordinated several farmers who took growing Moringa as a
serious opportunity from the early “sell-in” discussions that we had with representation of a large
number of farmers last year. They are harvesting it and GWRFI is drying it down for sale to some
customers that have been identified. In fact, the first two receipts from sales have come in! They
were small, but exciting to get the ball rolling. The next customer that has come forward and
requested a large quantity from GWRFI. It is for 1000’s of tons.
The challenge for GWV/GWRFI in moving from a highly manual facility, for processing Moringa, is
not new to the people on our team and is a similar wall that we have had to scale for the past 10 years,
regardless of the program that ACIF/AHAF is working,….funding. Funding a production scale
facility to make the quantities that have been requested will cost between $3 and 6 Million USD
depending on whether we pursue a partial module (3,000 tons) or a full module (10,800 tons). Banks
have suggested they will loan >50% of the requirement, but only if we can find independent investors
to cover the balance. That is always tough, no matter how positive the outlook is or what the margin
potential is. Investors view this geographical region as high risk and they aren’t interested in a true
start-up, as our effort is beginning from scratch. They are far more interested in investing in
expanding an already existing effort.
As Pope Francis calls us… “The Gospel of the marginalized is where our credibility is found and
revealed.” These marginalized farmers and our efforts in these developing communities are always
stuffed into a catch-22 box. We need to demonstrate delivered results before we have the resources to
deliver results.
By the Grace of God, we are determined to get out of the box.