CTC Land

What: The CTC Land sits on 11.5 acres off of the main road through Maai Mahiu known as "the HIV Highway." We have successfully connected to a sustainable water source, are growing a large-scale demonstration garden, and developing a Nature Trail. 

Café Ubuntu Broke ground on June 25th, 2012. The café will be a much-needed health and nutrition resource center for the Rift Valley.

CTC Garden Projects - Includes a 2-acre garden on our land that will produce fresh, organic vegetables to use in recipes for Café Ubuntu, as well as Community Garden and Backyard Sack Gardening Projects.

Poultry Project launched in June 2011 to create sustainable job opportunities for youth in Maai Mahiu.  The project raises indigenous, free-range birds for the sale of both eggs and chicks.

Livestock Coop, in collaboration with leading Kenyan cheese producer Brown’s Cheese, provides farmers with a steady market and a fair wage for the sale of goat milk and sheep milk.

Why: The CTC Land Development Project in Kenya has impacted the community so greatly that the community has come to realize the full effect of this undertaking. We have improved the lives of less fortunate members of the community by creating employment for more than 50 people on our land. 

What's Next:  We plan to incorporate more plots into the CTC garden, with a wide range of vegetables. The CTC land will serves as the new site for the Knowledge and Resource Center and the rest of our community center that we are planning to construct.

Urban Savannah Design Studios has installed a weather machine to give us detailed weather information relating to the land. We are currently measuring 24 hour temperature, wind direction and speed. It will also allow us to establish whether the wind is adequate for generating energy. We may finally be making use of all of the crazy Maai Mahiu wind!