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Our slowest phase is also the one that saves the most money. A look at how projects start, and why we never skip it.
Every Kindred project begins with open meetings run by a local partner. No budget, no drawings, just questions: what do you need, who will look after it, what has been tried before?
Wells in the wrong place. Classrooms without teachers. Storage nobody trusts. Most failed projects we have seen elsewhere were good ideas that skipped this step.
About three percent of a typical project budget. It is the best money we spend.
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When the hand pump in a Millbrook village failed in the dry season, a phone call and a motorbike did what used to take months.
Seven women, one ledger and 46 kinds of seed. How a village decides what to plant when the rains are less certain every year.
Three of our volunteers have never visited a project site. Their translations, spreadsheets and photo edits still reach every village we work in.
