The total land is 2.5 acres out of which 1.5 have been paid by the local community already. There is 1 acre left to settle which we will purchase through OrphanDAO. Our community securing this will ensure it is being used for the purpose of an orphanage and not anything else. 

Akanda sits on the “Côte D’Azur” of Gabon. Government and rich promoters have been trying to buy the land to build hotels but the community fought against all currents to ensure this would be used for the benefit of abused women and orphans.

Below a video of the land in 2020 completely enclosed, with the watchman cabin.

After securing the land and signing a contract, their battle didn't stop here. It so often happens that property owners sell their lands twice in Africa which is what will happen in this case. 

It also happens that your neighbour takes over your land, which happened here. The community had to invest in building a fence to prevent an ill-intentioned neighbour to build on this land. People supporting them also contributed by donating bricks and cement to finish the fencing. 

Watch below footage of the neighbour's fence trying to eat on the centre's property.

After we constitute the DAO, Kate will travel to Gabon the second week of February to secure the land on behalf of the DAO and issue a smart contract. We estimate this phase cost to be around 100K USD. We will then build a full time DAO team, a local team and start planning the construction and move ahead with the project. We commit to providing the DAO with real-time updates, content, videos, live-streams. 

Join our community and be part of this exciting adventure to give orphans in Gabon a home.

 

We will look at starting a similar project in Bangui, CAR depending on the investments of our community.