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What if we built a city from scratch?
Not through feedback forms or late-stage consultations, but from the very beginning.
Welcome to Hawi Springs, a 5,000-acre community-owned city for 150,000 visionaries in Kenya. We are bypassing absentee foreign investors and political cycles to create a self-sustaining urban ecosystem. Through a dedicated community trust, we ensure that land value and shared infrastructure directly benefit the people who live here.
If you believe the future of Africa should be shaped by its community, you belong here.
How This Project Is Different
Most cities are designed, financed, and built before the people who will live there are involved. Decisions are made early, and future residents have little influence over how the place functions.
Hawi Springs is taking a different approach. We are involving people at an earlier stage and building the project in a way that allows for input, participation, and shared ownership.
This includes:
Engaging early participants in shaping key aspects of the development
Exploring ownership models that include residents and contributors
Designing systems that work together (housing, energy, food, work) rather than separately
What We Are Building
Hawi Springs will include:
Living & Wellness
Production & Industry
Food Systems & Health
Quality Infrastructure
A new community in Kenya designed and built with the people who will be part of it.
Building A City, Together
Help Us Shape the Future
We are Assembling the Founding 100
Hawi Springs is not fully designed. It is not predetermined. It will be shaped by the people who will live in it.
This is an invitation to those ready to step beyond the role of tenant or spectator and become the foundational architects, investors, and residents of a self-determined future where those who inhabit the streets are the same ones who design, build, and own them.
Founding Stewards
People who will help shape how the city functions beyond the physical build.
We’re looking for:
Community builders and facilitators
Experts in governance, policy, and systems design
Professionals in education, healthcare, and wellness
People focused on culture, social systems, and long-term stewardship
Capital Contributors
Individuals and institutions providing financial backing to support the development of Hawi Springs.
We’re looking for:
Development finance institutions (DFIs)
Sovereign funds and institutional investors
Family offices and high-net-worth individuals
Strategic partners aligned with long-term value creation
Builders
People and companies involved in the physical design and construction of the project.
We’re looking for:
Architects, urban designers, and planners
Engineers (civil, structural, environmental, software, energy)
Contractors, fabricators, and construction specialists
Material innovators and prefabrication experts
Strategic Partners
Organizations and partners contributing land, infrastructure, technology, or systems that enable the project.
We’re looking for:
Landowners and joint venture partners
Energy and infrastructure providers
Technology and smart systems companies
Agricultural and food system partners
Industrial and manufacturing collaborators
Residents
People who are interested in living in Hawi Springs and want to be part of the community as it develops.
We’re looking for:
Individuals and families looking for a different living environment
People open to participating in shaping their neighborhood
Early adopters willing to engage before the project is fully defined
Observers
People who are curious about what we are building and want to follow the journey as it develops.
We’re looking for:
Individuals exploring new models of living and development
People interested in future cities, sustainability, or community-led projects
Those not ready to commit yet, but paying close attention
Charity Wairimu: Regenerative Systems Architect
Charity designs regenerative systems for how we inhabit, produce, move, finance and steward land.
Charity is interested in one fundamental question: What would it take to design human settlements as living systems? Not just buildings or masterplans, but the relationships between land, ecology, infrastructure, mobility, food, industry, capital, governance and community.
This work has evolved into a regenerative systems framework for the rural–urban continuum, from neighborhoods and cities to productive landscapes and regional networks. At the center of this work is Hawi Urban Systems, where Charity is developing the Regenerative City Codex: a framework for designing, financing, building and operating places as interconnected systems rather than fragmented real estate projects.
Hawi Springs is the first ground-up application of this thinking, serving as a living laboratory for regenerative settlement. But the ambition extends beyond building a new city.
At my core, I hold a single question: what could we achieve together that neither of us could achieve alone?
This is not a concept. It is designed to be financed and built.
How this gets built
Hawi Springs is designed with a clear approach to financing both infrastructure and vertical development. Instead of relying on a single funding source, the project uses multiple structures that align with different parts of the city and different types of participants. This allows the project to be built in phases, while distributing risk and enabling broader participation.
Bonds (Infrastructure & Horizontal Development)
Funded through long-term instruments such as green bonds and infrastructure financing. These support foundational systems like energy, water, transport, and public spaces.
D-REITs (Buildings & Vertical Development)
Structured through development vehicles such as D-REITs, allowing participation in income-generating real estate over time.
Business Growth Funds
Supported through dedicated funds that invest in businesses operating within the city, creating jobs and economic output.
Housing Finance & Mortgages
Enabled through housing finance and mortgage structures that make it easier for residents to participate over time.
The full development
At full scale, Hawi Springs is projected as a multi-phase development with an estimated total value of approximately $15 billion.
This includes:
Infrastructure systems (energy, water, roads, public spaces)
Residential and commercial development
Industrial and economic zones
Community and social infrastructure
Rather than funding this all at once, the project is structured to be developed progressively through different financial vehicles.
The first phase of Hawi Springs focuses on a 1,000-acre district designed for 18,000 to 30,000 people.
This phase represents approximately 20% of the full project, with an estimated development scale of $3 billion.
5,000-acre
Regenerative city
250,000+
Jobs Created
$15 billion
Deployed capital
$3.5 billion
Yearly output
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