City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Migoti Coffee produces and exports some of the best coffee in Burundi, sourcing coffee cherries directly from farmers and processing them high in the mountains above Lake Tanganyika. Our vision is to see the coffee communities transformed with coffee as a catalyst for economic growth, and by connecting local Burundian coffee farmers with buyers and roasters from around the world.
MASS creates well-built environments using appropriate design, local investment, and innovation to break the cycle of poverty. We collaborate with governments, NGOs, private sector firms, and health care experts to advocate for the most underserved and provide scalable models of community-based development and training. MASS Design Group has shown that innovation, driven by interdisciplinary research and immersion in the field, can deliver well-built environments that are efficient, effective, and empowering. By addressing immediate infrastructural needs and simultaneously building systems to address the social determinants of failure, our work constructs agency, serves as an engine for economic growth, and assures long-term sustainability. We build capacity at all levels—from training unskilled laborers to assisting government ministries in writing policies that establish more holistic and appropriate project outcomes.
Kawsay is a platform that connects sustainable infrastructure services to the people who have been most neglected by municipal services. Through real time data collection and high level analysis, Kawsay reveals the untapped potential market that alternative infrastructure can reach in informal communities. Kawsay provides an online platform allowing our partner utilities, NGO’s and Social Enterprises to tap into a wide set of collected statistics as well as analytical research supporting future company growth. This system gives alternative infrastructure providers the necessary user data, facts and quantitative and qualitative data to create greater social impact through a lucrative, reduced risk environment. By providing exposure to new markets, Kawsay brings together a network of partner organisations working collectively in previously under-represented communities.