Sustainability, education, and learning with your hands

 

The Future of Hope. Click for source

After watching the MOOC video with guest presenter Chido Govera, I found myself with an odd question–how do you make sure your efforts have an impact? The immediate response felt like “just go check,” but truly effective actions sometimes have consequences that are hard to quantify or see.

The Future of Hope’s mushroom project in Zimbabwe. Click for source

I believe the most effective message of this project is Govera’s idea of “you touch, you feel, and you experience” as a way of learning. Having such a solid and concrete interaction with something, in this case the mushrooms, is how one can learn most effectively.

Chido Govera in Cape Town, South Africa. Click for source

Sustainability here may just be described as a continuous effort. There’s no one quick fix when it comes to a lot of these issues, and it takes the ongoing effort of organizations like The Future of Hope to have an actual, tangible impact. What sort of things do you think you could do to have an impact, and how would you make it sustainable?