Interview with Jonathan about his commitment to his community in the refugee camp in Uganda.

Life if tough when you have nothing. But “nothing” is very relative and often a judgment of Western people that “have everything”. When coaching start ups in the Western world they tend to feel “poor” due to the complexity of initiation. For them it is often mind blowing when asked to sum up their direct and indirect assets, their means. The same happens in the Uganda camps. They rapidly come to the conclusion that they have everything to become potentially prosperous and healthy. Instead of “nothing” they have challenging hardships to overcome. These hardships are sometimes very tough, like outbreaks of bad diseases with child death due to bad hygiene and unhealthy water. These hardships repeat themselves unless action is being take. Using the sustainocratic guidelines of the core natural human values as shared responsibility among all the local people, the hardships can be overcome, step by step. Financial means are sometimes needed (mostly through donations) in case of particular purchases but most of the activities are realized through teamwork, creativity, empowerment, local leadership and belief in their meaningful purpose of co-creating their wellness together. A few examples:

Building houses using plastic bottles filed with sand

Growing their own food

Purifying water for health

The future of cities and regional development is fundamentally different from where we come from. In the article about “breaking with our heritage” I describe this breaking process at individual and city governance level. Nowadays it goes even further than breaking with the facilitating function of our industrial or capitalist economic heritage. This is necessary if we want to have a sustainable future as a human species. It therefore also breaks with hierarchical dominance, citizen domestication, money as prime goal, growth and our cultural behavioral (lack of) ethics, as we all, people and institutions alike, carry the same responsibility. It goes much further than the decorative transition suggested in this animated visualization (source: LinkedIn ). Many cities will have to redefine themselves and their economies, some will disappear or develop into smaller units.