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Through a One-time-only capitalization financed by philanthropic
donations, HNP plans to supply needy communities anywhere with fully
functional turn-key operations in the form of a donated, wholly self-
sustaining Town Center, independent of any infrastructure, capable of
providing its subscribers with clean water, showers and lavatories
through innovative Clean Technology, creating its own energy and water
source, and a built-in Waste water system. Further incorporating the
combinations of Adult Learning with Access to Credit/Savings, Access to
the Web, and Access to Networks of business and higher education will
provide the community with powerful tools toward their own Self-
Sustainability and independence.
services, provided they don’t need to pay for the capitalization cost of
building utilities. With a Subscription Business Model as its organizing
principle, HNP intends to create Owners out of Subscribers living in some
of the most devastating circumstances on the planet.
HNP believes communities anywhere can pay for their own basic
Human Needs Project Empowerment through
Self SustainabilityHNP endeavors to build self-
sustaining ‘Town Center”
Pods to inspire, support and
educate its stakeholders by
providing access to basic
Water services, the Web,
education and credit.
“Infrastructure In-a-box”
HNP is finalizing work on its
prototype and will build its
Pilot Project this year,
pending permits, in Kibera,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Founded in San Francisco, June 2010, by Connie Nielsen and David
Warner, in the effort to create a self-sustaining Water Services Center in
reaction to a visit to the slum of Kibera, Human Needs Project quickly
grew to include some of the most interesting figures in Clean Technology
construction and research.
Counting among its collaborators scientists like Professor Daniel
Kammen of the World Bank and University of California at Berkeley, and
Bio-engineering pioneers, John Todd and Norman Hantzsche; Architect
Kenneth Kao; as well as entrepreneurs Jonathan Kaplan of Flip Video and
The Melt fame, and Jim Wunderman, CEO of Bay Area Council, HNP
comprises a wide array of academics and professionals who donate their
time to HNP.
Aiming to create replicable Self-Sustainable, Clean Technology, town
centers, for places which have none, HNP uses 100 % of its fundraising
to operations and construction only, and functions as collaborative
ensemble without hierarchy and is committed to transparency and
personal accountability.
Human Needs Project
Bio
Clean Technology:Reliable
Self- SustainableCost-Effective
HNP will build using only
locally available materials
and parts, using as much
recycled material as can be
made available, while
educating and training local
volunteers to master the
technology and maintain
the Center, in the process
creating a pool of highly
trained clean technology
professionals in the middle
of informal settlements,
where their knowledge can
be put to good use widening
community access to clean
technology home improve-
ment.
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