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Future Training Center 

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HELP US ACHIEVE A TRAINING SITE FOR: 

 

Agriculture
Creating coops for food security; gender, youth and empowerment for persons with disabilities. 

Art 
Community dignity, shared values, and inspiration through collaborative mosaics that anchor Productive Community Spaces.
 

Entrepreneurship
 The location for training is within the informal settlement of Mukuru with alternate training space near Mombasa.

Earth-friendly:
Our choice to use a freight container for our training center is ecological and practical. The basis of everything we do is founded on simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and life-affirming choices. The center will use an eco-stove to train for healthy cooking, dry-flush toilets, solar lighting, rain water collection, and abandoned tires as furnishings. 

Container              $15,000

Land                      $80,000

Van                        $12,000

Training Tools        $  4,000

License/Marketing $  4,000

Attorney                $  2,500

Soil prep/planting $10,000

Site Mgr.               $  2,000

Labor                    $12,000

Misc.                     $  8,500

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Business Model

We follow a multi-sided, humanistic business model whereby services are co-created with communities and led by those communities = Community-led Development. 

Profit made must be without harm to the environment, people or their livelihoods. 

Target Client

Residents of informal settlements and organizations who wish to expand their reach the slum residents; NGOs,  governments, private groups.  

Income Source

Tenders, donations, awards, loans.

Financials available upon request

Offerings

Community engagement, training, management, monitoring and evaluation, research, knowledge sharing and transferable programs to other informal settlement.

ART-Impact

YOD Mosaics serve as "SDG #Zero, Engagement".  From engagement we empower communities by giving voice to common values.  From this empowerment, comes a sense of worthiness and an entrepreneurial spirit. 

Agri-Impact

Our agri-program has the potential to impact over 200,000 lives. The program methods can be followed in other communities. Food security is the goal with job creation through value chain opportunities that foster economic growth and follow inclusive development protocol. 

Growth

YOD International has a 5 year  plan centered around Productive Community Spaces and micro-economies to foster a model for self-reliance by 2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborative

We welcome collaboration with organizations that follow place-based and human centered approaches.  Our staff diversity includes expertise in agriculture, entrepreneurship, housing,  art, and academic  research.

 

 

 

 

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