29/12/2025
3rdWorld Xplorations and its proposed core service, comp@ss, have ridiculously and extensively evolved from one failure to another.
After learning more about our nature in Malawi and encountering permaculture on an educational trip to Kumbali Lodge in 2011, I began to question the persistence of ultra poverty and hunger in Malawi. I began to believe that our nature has possibilities to end them all.
Unclearly defined, the explorations began in 2013. After giving up in 2014, the urge returned in 2015 with an idea of Ecoarms Volunteer Network (EVN), presented at Ntchisi district council. From the very same moment, the “allowance” problem began to challenge everything. I was forced to find an alternative approach. A donor-independent social enterprise model was discovered and adopted. EVN was quickly registered as sole trader business in the same 2015.
To recognise the explorations, it was renamed and registered as AfriCan Xplorations in 2018. In 2022, it was renamed to 3rdWorld Xplorations by default when the registrar flagged the “AfriCan”.
The EVN that started as a nonprofit movement, became the core business concept. From 2015 to 2025, it has been a journey of trials, failures, errors, ridicule, controversy, misconceptions, breakups and refinement. It is a 10-year extremely complicated metamorphosis of a failed social enterprise mission that has refused to die.
Between 2019 to 2023, I have explored a number of some well known “possibilities” popularly referred to as poverty solutions. This includes , communal , , , market , and .
Ever since 2011, my mission has been seeking to explore the possibilities of an and futuristic world with a purpose of creating a new world perception.
This comes from a deep curiosity and passion for the discovery of the true nature of our world and its transformation into a better living place for all. I have always felt an urge to establish if indeed it is possible to create a livable and just world using our readily available resources and , with the aid of foreign —not donor funds.
Without clearly understanding this, without knowing that even though everyone wants change—nobody is ready to, my plans and implementation strategies have been very poor. Compounded with low investment capacity, it all resulted in failures.
However, lessons have been gathered from different angles, most importantly, on adoption of innovations and the critical “consumerism and dependency culture” itself. Subsequently, the purpose and the mission got and , and started to look clearly in October of 2023.
In 2025, I and my crew unravelled the compressed earth blocks paradox, contravening the common perception that it is a low-cost building solution. We further discovered that rice husks ash has the potential to reduce earth blocks’ existing high cost, together creating a new perception on earthen buildings at large.
By looking at the past and future expected challenges, I have some fears when imagining and forecasting the progress in 2026
>What does 2026 hold for natural building approaches as we explore more pozzolans other than rice husks ash?
>Are we going to be able to unravel the persistence of hunger and ultra poverty in the face of organic farming solutions? Will we ever escape the imported fertiliser prison?
>Are we truly going to simulate the unified, mutual and personalized digital trading service (Umodzi), the supply-chain integrated logistics and the community-led eco-tourism?
>Will we ever see the reactions of the underserved bright pupils, GBV victims and patients towards the supporting Malawian digital apps encountered on comp@ss as they buy or sell through Umodzi (PaTrading)?
>Will we ever be able to explain why energy solutions still remain on the shelves without pushing out charcoal on the market?
