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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Adam Bent

Marilyn Cohn's Vision for a Self-Sufficient Village Could Offer a New Model for Rural Development in Africa

(Credit: Chosen Children International)

In rural western Kenya, a 20-acre site in Kwanza, which is 12 kilometers outside Kitale, is being developed around an ambitious question: what would community development look like if the essential ingredients of daily life were designed to support one another?

Marilyn Cohn, founder of Chosen Children International (CCI), is pursuing an answer through a proposed self-sufficient village that brings education, healthcare, vocational training, and renewable energy into a single development model.

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