Introducon/ Mission Statement - Project WET Foundation · Kibera, Africa’s Largest Slum ... HNP...

Introduc*on/ Mission Statement

•  Human Needs Project (HNP) is a San Francisco‐based organiza*on working to provide clean drinking water to families in urban slum areas, while also providing access to knowledge, skill‐sets and basic services. We aim to provide a wide array of services powered by clean technology ‐ micro infrastructures where no infrastructure exist ‐ while also introducing slum upgrades through access to clean technology solu*ons accompanied by educa*on, and a financing plan.

•  HNP’s turn‐key concept and organiza*onal model of a community‐owned co‐op, that will provide Kiberia with some BASIC HUMAN NEEDS, is what sets it apart from other organiza*ons. This pilot model dedicates itself to a one *me community center dona*on, by crea*ng a self sustained monthly income for the center through a co‐op situa*on. This, along with training the center’s leaders with knowledge and equipment maintenance know‐how, will ensure the con*nua*on of the center to run itself and maintain itself, long into the future. Thus becoming a model for many more similar town centers to be donated all over the world.

•  Empowerment through Access; •  AGGREGATE SERVICES

•  SELF‐DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS •  WATER •  CLEAN TECHNOLOGY •  INFORMATION CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT

“The houses were built of what is on the ground; mud, garbage and human refuse. All of it contaminated and sure to spread disease… hundreds of thousands of women, men and children crammed into li^le less than a square mile ‐ without access to clean water, toilets or baths, not to men*on educa*on, training or jobs… I had never really had to think much about the systems (in the industrialized world) flush toilets, municipal sewage and garbage systems, reliable electricity, running water, communica*on and paved roads, like most people, I took them for granted. But in the midst of complete misery, I found among people here, strength, solidarity, crea*vity and the will to live”.

‐ Connie Nielsen, HNP President & Co‐founder

Kibera, Africa’s Largest Slum


Kibera is one of the largest slums in Africa. It is located in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.


More than 300,000 people live in less than a square mile…


The lack of waste disposal, drainage systems and public toilets, combined with the small spaces these people are sharing, packed *ghtly into 12x12 foot houses built from mud and metal, allow for diseases such as malaria, diarrhea and cholera to flourish.


Kibera is en*rely without infrastructure, it has li^le to no access to basic services such as garbage collec*on, sanita*on, drainage systems, or access to water.


The vastly insufficient number of available lavatories and baths result in the prac*ce of ‘flying toilets’ – human excreta in plas*c bags which are disposed of at night by throwing them into the air ‐ to land where they may, as there is nowhere to safely dispose of them.


It is a dangerous environment, that children walk around on, live in, and play on. These surfaces are contaminated with human waste, which can contain dangerous pathogens.


There is a direct link between the absence of sanita*on systems and the presence of deadly diseases. These people are living without the BASIC HUMAN NEEDS.

Community Based Organiza*on

•  Connie has comprised a team of Kiberan residents that she has consulted with and gained community involvement as well as a certain pride from these community leaders that is dicta*ng its own needs and preferences for a town center to be built in their community.

•  All recruits and leadership will come from the community. To prepare them for all con*ngencies implicit in running a complex structure of u*li*es, clean technology, and educa*on, HNP will set up a structure of educa*on and training for them. HNP has recruited the first group of twenty young men and women of Kibera who will become the managing force of the “town center”. These recruits will form a core group of Clean Technology Specialists, trained in the latest green technology out of UC Berkeley and Harvard and will be able to access, and maybe even push, the new and growing, green Economy of tomorrow around the world.

•  Community Recruitment •  Create a Clean Technology Expert Team in Kibera •  Develop local talent for management

•  Grassroots Community Council •  Share informa*on , pool resources •  Communicate: how to best serve Kibera's residents •  Co‐ordinate community group efforts

•  Create Informa*on Campaigns for the community on Health, Nutri*on, Paren*ng, Hygiene and much more ‐ for Kiberans, by Kiberans

The Town Community Center


•  In a place where there is no access to infrastructure, HNP has created a replicable, turn‐key infrastructure in a box, so to speak. Which provides its own access to water, energy, waste water management and basic services (showers, toilets, drinking water) as well as educa*on. This combined with access to savings/credit and communica*ons through wifi – web, computer, printers and informa*on about health, paren*ng and nutri*on – all become a town center where there is none.

•  An autonomous center, made of clean technology. We found a way to render our well/town center independent of any infrastructure, and by verifying the presence of a source of water and digging deep enough, we could also control the quality and availability of the water, all contained within the center.

•  Self sustained as a co‐op to include community members pride in ownership, confidence, self‐worth, a camaraderie of sorts in the town center.


•  An Adult Business Learning Center

•  A Wifi connec*on to the world with numerous donated computers, keyboards, and printers

•  A micro‐finance / credit system

•  A locker room facility – for men, women and families, to include a hand sanita*on sta*on, sink’s, showers, and flushing toilets

•  A well to provide clean drinking water and carrying jerry‐cans to bring it home

•  A coffee/ java house café for a small taste of luxury

•  Children’s playground equipment out in the front courtyard


HNP now has over 40 collaborators in the US and Kenya. HNP is fully funded and is awai*ng permits to start building an extraordinary, Clean Energy, full‐service, Town Community Center in Kibera.


Experts in Clean Technology, Design and Architecture, Educa*on, Business and Economics have rounded out the vision of the HNP Concept and are working to create the best and most efficient center possible.


The center will be made up of pods. These pods are created out of re‐usable materials such as; un‐used shipping containers that already exist in Kenya.


The center is made up of all clean technology and will run using solar panel energy.


Sanita*on Units: Male The center including the well and all grey water will be recycled and will be all in a self‐contained system.

Self ‐ Sustainability

•  Self‐ Sustainability is the turn‐key concept HNP has introduced to create a center that is sure to con*nue with high quality equipment, everyday maintenance, and the repairs needed to keep it running far into the future.

•  HNP will ins*tute a co‐op and donate the center to the co‐op once management is ready. By crea*ng ownership by many, and a democra*c leadership, HNP intends to safeguard the Center from being taken over by selfish interests.

•  HNP will provide the co‐op management and maintenance recruits with educa*on and training so they are prepared for all con*ngencies and opera*ons. In the process, this will also create a team of experienced Clean Technology experts in the middle of the slum of Kibera.

HNP Business Model

•  HNP Business plan: A one *me only capitaliza*on of a Town Community Center from philanthropic dona*ons, to the community, in the form of a subscriber owned co‐op, the monthly subscrip*ons of which (priced to community values) will sustain the economic well being of the center, allowing for capital savings, upkeep, management and repairs.

•  The community will experience a collabora*on, a pride, a sense of ownership that they have never experienced before. Subscribers will pay $6 a month in the form of subscrip*ons as members of the community center. Members are es*mated at around 1,500 families, crea*ng a monthly income of $10,000 to sustain the center. HNP will be owned and led by its subscribers. Environmentally and economically through the use of Clean, Reliable Technology and Services which combined will create real opportuni*es for its members.

•  The co‐op ownership will be created for Kiberans to own and run autonomously. A large number of subscrip*ons will ensure a democra*cally viable approach to leadership and management, and avoid runaway management / self dealing.

•  Many projects in Kibera have failed. The problems they have to manage are many, and interrelated.

•  So why a^ack only one problem? HNP approaches the problems in a holis*c way, by coming at the problems form many, varied angles.

•  Aggregate Services – Aggregate Benefits.

•  HNP believes that by aggrega*ng basic – for pay – services and a mutually suppor*ve program of adult learning courses and access to micro‐credit the people of Kibera will achieve awareness of their lives, what it takes to change them, and the skill sets and informa*on to do so.

HNP HOLISTIC APPROACH

If you give a woman in Africa

access to informa*on and credit,

she will double her income.

‐Her en*re income provides for the welfare of her children.

(Women for Women Interna*onal 2010)


water power

sanita*on clean technology

adult learning center microfinance ins*tu*on

public baths and lavatories Informa*on & campaigns office playground, wifi and cappuccino bar

communica*ons and business services financial planning & systems/ops manual

subscriber ownership & community leadership

pride,community,confidence,achievement,ownership


HNP Board of Director’s

•  Connie Nielsen – HNP President & Co‐ Founder; Actress.

•  David Warner – HNP President & Co‐ Founder; CEO of Redhorse Constructors, a San Francisco Bay Area‐based Sustainable Construc*on Firm.

•  Daniel Kammen – HNP Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Efficiency; Dis*nguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley. Energy and Resources Group, and department of Nuclear Engineering.

•  Jim Wunderman – HNP Economic Team; President & CEO Bay Area Council, a business‐backed public policy organiza*on in the San Francisco‐Okland‐Silicon Valley Bay Area.

•  Kenneth Kao – HNP Chief Designer; Department of Architecture, Harvard and CEO of Kao Design.

•  Daniel Prull – HNP Project Coordinator; Ph. D., LEED AP BD+C Energy Director – Redhorse Constructors. •  Jonathan Kaplan – HNP Economic Team; The entrepreneurial founder of Flip Video, CEO, Chairperson and

Founder of Pure Digital Technologies.

•  Andy Barke^ – HNP Economic Team; Greenlightapparel.com, Facebook.com. •  Yema Khalif – HNP social media/website designer; Kibera resident. •  Joyce Oneko – HNP Project coordinator, Legal Kenya; Lawyer, Kenya. •  Vanessa Ge^y – HNP Ac*vist/Fundraiser. •  Lynn Younglove – HNP Corporate Collabora*ons; Adver*sing Producer Periscope.

What We Need:

•  Water Carrying Containers / Drinking Water Distribu*on Systems / Purifica*on Exper*se

•  Solar‐panels

•  Electrical Wire, Connectors, Transformers

•  Pumps and Pipes

•  Cement

•  Computers

•  Printers

•  Wifi‐ System / Internet Connec*ons

•  Impact Measurement Sosware

•  Subscriber Management / Payment Sosware •  Strategic Management Sosware

•  Commercial Style Coffee/Espresso Machines

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