One other 2022 goal we would like to highlight is the $45,000 in wages for local communities. We invest in communities. Sometimes that investment takes the form of a classroom extension made with our interlocking stabilized soil bricks. Sometimes it is a Community Engagement meeting to start the long-term process of building relationships. Often, it is training and then paying local labor to build their own technologies.
Three things happen when you build local. First, you invest in people, people who start to build skills and hope. Second, you create an opportunity to engage local people in the financial system, a system that has often excluded them. In Matsakha, our partner group has created their own table banking initiative for savings and loans. Finally, money earned locally can then be spent locally, raising the quality of life for the entire community. | 
