Introduction
This article represents some sort of basic formal documentation for a project I've been running together with a willing recipient for a few years.
The project, from my side, consists on putting together and transferring two medium sized grants to help another individual build a home for themselves and their family, when conditions would otherwise not be sufficient for them to do so.
This is a project of the (currently informal) Flancia Foundation as manifested in Switzerland through the actions of a private individual like myself, being a privileged tech worker with some money and time to spare.
This project started as an idea back in ~2021 and builds on an earlier exploration: In Flancia there is no poverty.
It took shape and place, as planned, through 2025.
How it happened
I met an individual from Yemen who was in a dire situation and I decided to help them and their family, first recurrently as monthly support. As their lives stabilized (to some extent), I thought of granting them a larger sum to be able to try to build a life somewhere. The individual decided to buy land near Sanaa and build a home for them and their immediate and extended family (>10 people).
Details
This is a charitable project undertaken by Flancia Foundation as an idiosyncratic part of the Effective Altruism movement.
More details are available on demand. If you represent an organization who needs to know more about this project in particular, please reach out to 0@flancia.org.
- public document at doc.anagora.org/home
- video call at meet.jit.si/home