Sustainable Training & Community Center

As part of the Ashoka Changemakers competition, a New Leaf team created a proposal to challenge the root problem of urban housing. Rather than develop a specific urban housing solution, the proposal goes to the root of the problem, and works to reduce the need for rural-urban migration. New Leaf will work with Grassroots United to introduce rural community centers to co-create community-driven programs to bring opportunities, independence, and recovery. Our design is a simple sustainable community center to be built by community members with local materials. This modular building can adapt to needs of any community and will provide a place to gather, share resources, and learn techniques to create a sustainable community. Community-identified and driven programs housed in this structure may focus on job creation, infrastructure development, education, farming and land stewardship, health and family services, and the arts. For more information about different aspects of the complete plan, click on the links below: