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Fureai kippu 2000 bilingual ふれあい切符制度(2000年) Pékin : le ticket de métro payable en bouteilles plastiquesUrbaNews.fr. Bangla-Pesa Launch. Today's launch of Bangla-Pesa was a great start to an empowering community process!

Bangla-Pesa Launch

137 local business owners attended. Of the 137 local business owners that attended, 56 members completed their registration and backing process and created 400 credits each. At least 150 pending registrations will be completed in the next week. Prior to the launch, members of the business network processed through Bangladesh, led in song by the Bangladesh Business Network (BBN) Committee, and following the Bangla-Pesa basket, which was escorted by local security officials.

During the launch, the Alpha and Omega youth group performed a drama detailing the uses of Bangla-Pesa and debunking community concerns about this relatively novel approach to community development. Bangla Pesa - Complementary Currency Program. Fureai kippu. Fureai kippu (in Japanese ふれあい切符 :Caring Relationship Tickets) is a Japanese sectoral currency created in 1995 by the Sawayaka Welfare Foundation so that people could earn credits helping seniors in their community.[1] The basic unit of account is an hour of service to an elderly person.

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Sometimes seniors help each other and earn the credits, other times family members in other communities earn credits and transfer them to their parents who live elsewhere. For example, an elderly woman who no longer has a driver’s license; if you shop for her, you get credit for that, based on the kind of service and the number of hours.