Since my early days in Egypt, certain ideas have preoccupied me, all connected by a common thread.
We need leaders to build enduring, altruistic organisations and solutions that improve lives, especially for the most vulnerable.
These institutions must endure for generations. 
They must outlive their founders. 
They should belong to their communities.1
Below, is an overview of what I am building and what I plan to build.2
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Works in progress.
What I plan to build
(in the region).
I. Ahwa Society (main focus)
II. Insightful Strategies (main focus)
III. obuntō (needs capital to hire a team)
IV. not another travel company (slow)
I. Eulogies fall short. How can we truly live, experience, and share our lives fully, both through our own perspective and through the eyes of others?
II. A Podcast. Currently: Ideation phase.
III. Exploitation of people (commonly referred to as “workers”). What system can we create to bring injustices to light?
IV. We don’t know what’s in our food. The industry thrives on ignorance. What platform can force radical transparency and accountability?
V. How can Community Land Trusts be leveraged as engines of local innovation, equity, and shared prosperity? One example here.
VI. Egypt’s education system is broken—critical thinking is absent. What alternative model could be built to unlock curiosity, questioning, and independent thought?
No to retirement.
— Fr. José María Arizmendirrietta
- Learn more about exiting to community here. ↩︎
- Most of my focus is now going towards Ahwa Society. Insightful Strategies and obuntō are operational — albeit somewhat slowly. They need co-founding teams to help them grow. I’m also working, with three others, on solving a problem in tourism (many communities and families heavily rely on this sector). ↩︎