Ethics, Worldview & Influence

Community Needs And Trade-Offs

In 1977, a Kenyan biologist named Wangari Maathai noticed that the streams she had played in as a child had dried up, the soil had eroded, and the women in rural villages were walking further every year to find firewood. She started a movement that planted over 51 million trees across Kenya by paying women a small amount for every seedling that survived. In this lesson you will learn to read the needs of a community in context, identify competing priorities that pull in different directions, work through a local trade-off case, and build a simple community map.