Carmel

authored by Julia 🇨🇭 Switzerland · opened 10w ago · open to anyone in the city

Communities Building Their Own Futures

Necessity is the mother of invention, but also of resourcefulness and adaptability, improvisation and creative solutioning. Underdeveloped areas are rife with the above—people often making things work out of nothing, learning as they work and acquiring skills through daily practices for survival. Foreign help and companies often come in overlooking and dismissing the local know-how, tending to replace existing practices with ready-made solutions, taking the control out of the hands of the people who live with the results and consequences.

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