Binikou taps into the passion, skills, and creativity of young people from all over the planet to improve the quality of life in their communities by offering classes and an encyclopedia of solutions.
Binikou is a global project that works with kids' and young adults' natural instincts, abilities, and interests to help them become the kinds of amazing people they want to be, while encouraging them to research, design, build, and share simple, practical ways help humans all over the world get all the resources they need to be healthy, specifically: whole nutritious food, clean water, fresh air, light, and heat, and ways to effectively use their excess solids, liquids, gases, and energy.
Binikou is creating a kid-friendly editable online encyclopedia of simple, practical solutions by reaching out to kids, teachers, schools, and educational programs around the world to encourage them to collaborate on improving global quality of life.
The goal of Binikou ~ The Human Powered School is to offer everyone more ideas on how to be a healthier human being, starting with the next generation, and continuing to grow outwards from there.
"No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative that you create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away."
- Adora Svitak, 12 year old TED talk presenter
Total Funding Received to Date: $430
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $430 . The original project funding goal was $8,600.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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