:Author:   David Bale
:Date:     Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:25:27 PDT

 *Approach #5*

 *Help develop a totally new project*

   * this may be the only option in the absence of any suitable alternative projects in your partner area
   * this could be a major undertaking involving many more options or steps in getting started than have been offered for the other four approaches.  Exactly what you need to do should be should be governed by the nature of your project itself, rather than by suggestions in this manual
   * you are unlikely to complete a totally new project within the five-year span of the WWC cycle, so may need to plan instead to establish a firm foundation on which others may continue to build.  Although your own WWC connection area will be allocated a new partner area at the end of the 5 year period, those of you who have got involved in this new project are likely to want to continue with it.  Hopefully you will recruit new supporters from your (now) former List A partner area's new List B partner area
  
For those whose passion is microfinance, this Fifth approach may be the only answer, if the first four approaches yield nothing and there appears to be no microfinance initiatives in the areas of Niamey to the northeast of the river Niger.

An easier alternative might be to see what worthwhile projects are taking place right now in Area #1412 and follow Approaches 1-4 instead, but in relation to other needs such as education, HIV/AIDS and community development programmes.