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So my first hero to shadow is a group which is facilitating farming in Kenya - training farmers, getting them access to better seeds, connecting them with markets, etc.
Then Nick Heyming commented on my IMAGINE1 post asking if I'd heard of Architecture for Humanity. I had heard about them in the past, and have always been really interested and impressed in the work they manage to do. But before the start of the EVOKE project /…
ContinuePosted on March 10, 2010 at 10:42am — 4 Comments
9 March, 2020.
I have continued my career path as an architect, and have my own practice up and running for 5 or 6 years now. It’s starting to reach maturity. We are based…
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I had an idea that my superhero should be teaching sustainable, organic, small-scale farming to subsistence farmers in Africa. It turned out to be quite hard to find.
I found two interesting characters on the Ashoka.org network. The…
ContinuePosted on March 5, 2010 at 5:43pm — 3 Comments
I remember a professor of mine defining culture as a pattern of common behaviour.
If we want to intervene in the lives of rural Africans, we need to understand how they live their lives. It is the responsibility of the women to fetch water and cook for the family. So if you have a device that helps collect or carry water, it must be light enough that a woman with a baby on her back can carry it.
Whatever the problem is that we're seeking a solution for, a…
ContinuePosted on March 4, 2010 at 6:46pm
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