Wow!
Absolutely adore the purple and the outdoor corridor/veranda + Glamping, parties, retreats… you’re speaking our language.
You have a beautiful place 💜
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 at 21:45, Kevindoylejones1 <kevindoylejones1> wrote:
In my wandering phase again.
Where I call home https://www.riparianway.org/
On Apr 23, 2024 at 12:16 PM, <Isavary Khabuqwi> wrote:
Hi Kevin,
Thank you for taking the time to join our meeting and really listen to my story. Here’s a summary of what we spoke about.
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What has community currencies done for me and how did I get in that space?
The frustration of never being fully satisfied with my life based on financial and personal constraints is what drove me to move to Kilifi. I had visited this small town for vacation once in 2012 for 3 days, and when leaving I felt something was unfinished. 7 years later we moved with my son right before the Covid-19 lockdown and life has never been the same for us.
What we discovered is a sense of community and belonging among fellow creatives who seemed to be searching for the same sense of freedom to be and create as I was. Kilifi Culture was birthed during one of our conversations involving the financial challenges being faced by creatives who choose to live a life of purpose. We immediately started capturing and sharing our stories on Instagram, as form of support for each other.
Discovering Sarafu during a market day event later that year opened up the possibility of creating a safe space for personal growth, by relying on what we can offer each other. I fell in love with the idea and my own vision of what success looked like.
Shortly after, I secured a job as a field worker and communications engineer with Grassroots Economics and it has been a learning journey and one opportunity after another to advance awareness and use of Community Inclusion Currencies, now know as Community Asset Vouchers that anyone can now create via Sarafu network.
Coming from an upbringing where money was a touchy subject, the concept of community currencies has saved us from our intense emotional attachment to it. From working with marginalised communities to finally leading the LGBTQ economies of support project, we’ve conquered every limited financial mindset by engaging with individuals from different walks of life.
Our experience has created our new reality where money isn’t a means of survival, but a means of creating lasting economic change for us by advancing in promoting these vouchers.
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Isavary
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