Why we start with a map drawn on the ground
Before any programme begins, we sit with a community and map what is actually there. It is slow, it is public, and it changes what we build more often than anyone expects.
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The phrase turns up in every climate strategy document. Here is what it actually asks of us when we arrive in a community that has been asked for its opinion many times before.
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Before any programme begins, we sit with a community and map what is actually there. It is slow, it is public, and it changes what we build more often than anyone expects.

A good harvest and a good year are not the same thing. What happens in the days after the crop comes out of the ground usually decides which one a household gets.

The organisation we are proudest of is one we no longer run. What it took to hand a programme over to the women who were once its beneficiaries.
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