“No one builds dignity from a donor brochure,” Petersen told a visiting journalist in 2023. “We are not fixing people. We are fixing pipes and roofs. The people were never broken.”
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Against all odds, Petersen walked 14 kilometers each day to attend the nearest mission school. He eventually earned a scholarship to the University of Lubumbashi, where he graduated with honors in community health and rural economics in 2010. Unlike most of his peers who sought government jobs in the capital, Petersen returned to Kalukobo. By 2015, Petersen had founded the Zagaze Kalukobo Foundation , focusing on three pillars: water security, decentralized solar power, and women-led agricultural cooperatives. His signature approach — later called the “Kalukobo Method” — rejects top-down charity. Instead, Petersen facilitates community meetings where residents themselves rank their needs and contribute labor or local materials. “No one builds dignity from a donor brochure,”