Building Fences to Build Connections
Kasisa Village is a rural village in the East African country of Tanzania. This project is designed to improve the quality of life of its residents. Clara Ford, founder of Kijiji Innovative Sustainable Solutions (KISS), has directed her efforts toward building a community center with goals of reducing cyclical poverty and empowering the local people with technical skills. The locals of Kasisa Village are stakeholders in the planned center, which will function as a testing ground for social impact implementation in their community. This partnership for community development is a core value for Ford, the KISS Board of Directors, and the Hunt Institute.
Kasisa Village is a rural village in the East African country of Tanzania. This project is designed to improve the quality of life of its residents. Clara Ford, founder of Kijiji Innovative Sustainable Solutions (KISS), has directed her efforts toward building a community center with goals of reducing cyclical poverty and empowering the local people with technical skills. The locals of Kasisa Village are stakeholders in the planned center, which will function as a testing ground for social impact implementation in their community. This partnership for community development is a core value for Ford, the KISS Board of Directors, and the Hunt Institute.
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Building Fences to Build Connections
Figure 4: African Myrrh tree
What is a Sustainable Option?
Sustainable efforts are meant to balance ecological, cultural, and economic needs.
The goal of this balance is to contribute to development that can be recreated and
continued by locals (Nelson 2000). In order to ensure that this fence can be maintained
by the local village, we want to make sure that it is built with local and environmentally
friendly materials. A sustainable fence would be a perimeter that can be reproduced
locally as well as economically and environmentally sustainable for the community.
Izzah Zaheer, Hunt Institute Undergraduate Research Analyst Page 10
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