And within the spirit of a real Pollinator, Cashawn’s influence isn’t solely restricted to the USA: “Over the previous 20 years, throughout my travels to Ghana, West Africa, we’ve developed relationships with numerous communities. In a single specific group, we determined to ascertain greater than only a customer relationship—we set down roots. Because of this, we constructed the Kweku Andoh Sustainability Institute.” 

Situated in West Africa, the KASI institute is 100% off the grid and continues their work in agriculture whereas incorporating all features of sustainability. It particularly focuses on individuals of African ancestry and their therapeutic from historic and systemic destructive results. We’ve got planted 500 fruit bushes and constructed pure buildings utilizing bamboo, making the complete campus absolutely sustainable. Their objective is to create a zero-waste campus the place we conduct coaching in photo voltaic expertise, plant-based delicacies, eco-building, bamboo building, water works and irrigation, natural agriculture, and medicinal herbs. 

The institute represents the end result of 20 years of HABESHA’s applications, occasions, and initiatives. Their 2022 inauguration marked the twentieth anniversary of the group’s formation, and in Cashawn’s phrase, “Stands as our shining star, our capstone achievement, bringing collectively all our efforts and aligning with our long-term imaginative and prescient.”