Ubuntu Architecture Summer Abroad Program (Ubuntu ASAP) exists to provide dignified, affordable sustainable, and accessible communities beginning with work-live homes for formal and informal communities (shanty-towns) around the world. Ubuntu ASAP exists to solve design problems for formal and informal communities (shanty-towns) around the world. Ideally, we want to work ourselves out of a job! Please help us create a world where Ubuntu doesn’t have to exist. "Architecture is never neutral; it either hurts or heals." — Zachary Kunstman, Business Operations Manager We want to give a voice to impoverished communities, empowering them to create sustainable homes and holistically healthy neighborhoods that incorporate local culture, craft and creativity. Through the Ubuntu design process, we want to build not only houses for the community but a spirit of togetherness. "We believe in using architecture as a vehicle to bring about change. If apartheid architecture could segregate and oppress, community-based design can liberate and enable opportunity, growth, and commerce." — Wandile Mthiyane, Founder and CEO Ubuntu ASAP exists to solve architectural design and financial inclusion problems of low-income communities around the world. Our mission is to empower inadequately sheltered families to overcome economic and social challenges and barriers, through innovation and collaboration in designing for the future vision of their home and community.