Creating the spark for sustainable development
“We come in here asking them: What are you missing in this community? What can we help fix? What can we brainstorm together, and how can we work through this?” That’s the mentality that David Boongullaya, part of GIVE Volunteers, takes when he comes to a community to help it develop. The organization helps communities grow sustainably by building dorms for teachers, schools for students, water tanks for the communities and more with eco-bricks, which are made from plastic trash that support concrete. That’s just one of the ways that GIVE helps communities become more resilient and adaptive to climate change. “This is a spark that we want to set,” says David, about partnering with communities and teaching them about sustainable development. “This is the light that we want to shine.”