With its programmes expanding and with a government plan to redevelop Kigamboni looming, KCC needed to secure a permanent base. Thanks to a donation from the Selesko Foundation in 2010, the Centre was able to purchase “KCC Futures”, a 3-hectare plot of undeveloped land not far from the current Centre but outside the boundary of the proposed Kigamboni New City development.
Following the principals of permaculture, an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that are modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies, the land will be developed to house: