Through a One-time-only capitalization financed by philanthropic

donations, HNP plans to supply needy communities anywhere with fully

functional turn-key operations in the form of a donated, wholly self-

sustaining Town Center, independent of any infrastructure, capable of

providing its subscribers with clean water, showers and lavatories

through innovative Clean Technology, creating its own energy and water

source, and a built-in Waste water system. Further incorporating the

combinations of Adult Learning with Access to Credit/Savings, Access to

the Web, and Access to Networks of business and higher education will

provide the community with powerful tools toward their own Self-

Sustainability and independence.

services, provided they don’t need to pay for the capitalization cost of

building utilities. With a Subscription Business Model as its organizing

principle, HNP intends to create Owners out of Subscribers living in some

of the most devastating circumstances on the planet.

HNP believes communities anywhere can pay for their own basic

Human Needs Project Empowerment through

Self SustainabilityHNP endeavors to build self-

sustaining ‘Town Center”

Pods to inspire, support and

educate its stakeholders by

providing access to basic

Water services, the Web,

education and credit.

“Infrastructure In-a-box”

HNP is finalizing work on its

prototype and will build its

Pilot Project this year,

pending permits, in Kibera,

Nairobi, Kenya.

Founded in San Francisco, June 2010, by Connie Nielsen and David

Warner, in the effort to create a self-sustaining Water Services Center in

reaction to a visit to the slum of Kibera, Human Needs Project quickly

grew to include some of the most interesting figures in Clean Technology

construction and research.

Counting among its collaborators scientists like Professor Daniel

Kammen of the World Bank and University of California at Berkeley, and

Bio-engineering pioneers, John Todd and Norman Hantzsche; Architect

Kenneth Kao; as well as entrepreneurs Jonathan Kaplan of Flip Video and

The Melt fame, and Jim Wunderman, CEO of Bay Area Council, HNP

comprises a wide array of academics and professionals who donate their

time to HNP.

Aiming to create replicable Self-Sustainable, Clean Technology, town

centers, for places which have none, HNP uses 100 % of its fundraising

to operations and construction only, and functions as collaborative

ensemble without hierarchy and is committed to transparency and

personal accountability.

Human Needs Project

Bio

Clean Technology:Reliable

Self- SustainableCost-Effective

HNP will build using only

locally available materials

and parts, using as much

recycled material as can be

made available, while

educating and training local

volunteers to master the

technology and maintain

the Center, in the process

creating a pool of highly

trained clean technology

professionals in the middle

of informal settlements,

where their knowledge can

be put to good use widening

community access to clean

technology home improve-

ment.