Our aim is to help empower individuals and communities to be able to live a more sustainable lifestyle, by teaching them work skills that can enable them to build their own affordable homes and community buildings, and to then use those skills to gain future employment. By teaching building and management skills to individuals who are currently unemployed or unemployable, it is hoped that they will start their own building or related business within their community, which will provide much needed employment and income for not only them, but others as well.We also hope to inspire people to change through practical example; by showing them appropriate mechanisms for sustainable survival, and by assisting them to apply these techniques to their everyday lives, so that their quality of life will improve, they will be able to provide more for themselves, and will become less dependent on others from outside their communities.