Kapita Earthship Community Centre Project Overview

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Project Build an Earthship in Rural Malawi! The project, Kapita Earthship Community Centre, is to become a sustainable development epicentre for 38 villages and over 5000 rural people in South East Mzimba district in Malawi. We want to plant the seed of an ideal condition from which a sustainable community can grow and flourish from a radically sustainable building made with recycled materials. With a budget of US$50000, the Kapita Earthship Community Centre is to house a community bank, a mini library, a dispensary, offices and a food bank. Labour will be wholly volunteered, so no labour costs. The people living in remotest of Malawi have been building houses from rammed earth and dirt since time immemorial. Recently, Empower Malawi, a local NGO which is coordinating this project introduced the people of Kapita area to principles of permaculture and practices as one way o...

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