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ECAHLI is not just a development company or a humanitarian effort. After seven years of careful planning and design, it is a new system — built to be resilient, sustainable, and profitable at once, generating the funding humanity, local economies, and the environment need. Combining a living-rights community, real investor returns, and direct home ownership under one governance standard, across every country ECAHLI operates in, is not something we're aware has been done this way before. This page lays out our path — what's built today, what's still in progress, and how the parts are designed to work together.
Governance is not paperwork here — it's the mechanism designed to make the mission survivable past any one person, one node, or one generation. Every rule on this page exists to protect three groups, in this order: the residents who call an ECAHLI Community home, the investors who fund it, and the generation who will inherit it.
A global network of self-sustainable, green economic ecosystems — Community Nodes that give people everywhere a dignified, secure, and genuinely hopeful place to build a life, and that outlast the founders who started them.
To set up and expand ECAHLI Community Nodes worldwide under one consistent governance standard — building a solid foundation not for this generation alone, but for the ones that follow it.
ECAHLI has already been accredited for this work by three independent global awards bodies — before a single Node was completed, and while the underlying structure was still being built. Further nominations are currently under review. We see that as real, external evidence the model is being taken seriously, not just a claim we're making about ourselves.
Acquisition International
CorporateLiveWire Global Awards
Industry-recognized nonprofit distinction
Additional award nominations currently under review, to be announced as confirmed
This is the single most important distinction on this page. ECAHLI's mission is stewarded by a nonprofit foundation. ECAHLI's developments are funded and delivered by a separate, for-profit commercial holding company.
Designed to hold the mission and the Community Handbook standard permanently, under Dutch Foundation Law, once registration is complete. The Foundation is intended to hold ECAHLI's land and community property in trust — including the homes and shared infrastructure inside every Flagship and Regional Node's Humanitarian side — on behalf of residents who hold living rights, not title. This stewardship is meant to be supported by ECAHLI's Commercial side: income generated through Investment and Development is designed to flow toward the Humanitarian mission, funding new Community Nodes and giving people the means to build a dignified new life. The Humanitarian side is never intended to be the source of that income — only where it's directed. The Foundation does not distribute profit to investors or generate commercial returns from real estate sales; any support it receives is meant to be reinvested directly into the mission, never paid out as a private return. The Community Handbook standard is already in effect today, independent of the Foundation's registration timeline.
ECAHLI Global Holdings is the commercial parent that holds ECAHLI's assets and intellectual property, funds ECAHLI Nodes worldwide, and supports the Humanitarian side — steward of every ECAHLI division and development, in every country. It operates today through registered country-level entities as they come online, starting with Kenya; a unifying global parent registration (Netherlands) is in progress. This is the entity global investors invest in, contractors bid to, and employees are hired by. It operates under the governance standards set by the Foundation, but it is legally and financially a separate, for-profit company. See Humanitarian & Commercial ↓.
After seven years of planning, ECAHLI Global Holdings is built around a single aim: deliver sustainability, poverty prevention, equality, reform, and lasting change through sustainable green economic ecosystems — enriching, uplifting, and protecting people's lives with a safe, technologically advanced environment to grow and flourish. Much of that work is aimed at repopulating rural and industry-deprived locations, strengthening undeveloped countries and rural economies most platforms overlook entirely.
Global Holdings has two sides. The Humanitarian side stands alone — dignity, reform, equality, and poverty prevention. The Commercial side holds two divisions working together — Investment and Development. Neither is designed to stand alone: Commercial capital and income are meant to sustain the Humanitarian mission; the communities the Humanitarian side builds are the same people, workforce, and markets the Commercial side depends on. It's designed as a closed loop, not two unrelated businesses under one name — and as with any new system, proving that loop in practice, cycle after cycle, is the work still ahead of us.
A dignified fresh start for talented, capable people the wider system has overlooked — locals in host countries and international residents alike. Residents hold living rights, not title, in exchange for participating fully in the Community Handbook. In return, our aim is to guarantee home, job, food, education, and retirement security, sustained by the Commercial side's income. You earn your place; ECAHLI gives you the platform to grow.
Real capital funding the industries that sustain each Community — agriculture, energy, hospitality, manufacturing — inside developments like ECAHLI Flagship Brazil and ECAHLI Flagship Kenya (Kisumu), which also includes an affordable-homeownership tier for local residents who want to own. Income generated flows to investors and local partners, not just to ECAHLI — and is designed to sustain the Humanitarian side in turn.
Tsavo, Tiwi Bay, and Malindi today — the same self-sustainable ECAHLI standard, at a smaller scale, and the one place across all three structures where buyers hold direct, outright title to their own home. Global Holdings owns and operates the surrounding development company and shared infrastructure; the buyer owns their unit.
Within the Investment part specifically, ECAHLI separates belief in the mission from ownership of a specific place — deliberately.
This is where an investor backs ECAHLI itself — the leadership, the discipline, and the growing worldwide network of ECAHLI Nodes as a whole. Global Holdings holds controlling ownership across every country entity — 51% standard, with Kenya's 40% as the one disclosed exception — giving Level 1 investors real, diversified exposure to the mission, not a claim on any single site.
Each Node also opens a local layer of participation: investors and partners based in, or specifically permitted to invest in, that country. This layer follows that country's law, registration, and foreign-investment requirements. Local participation vehicles are being built country by country; register your interest to hear when your country's Node opens.
Tsavo, Tiwi Bay, and Malindi sit inside the Development division of ECAHLI's Commercial side, governed by the same 7-seat Global Holdings Board as every other ECAHLI development — no separate governance track. They are held through ECAHLI Global Holdings Kenya, with a one-time, disclosed profit-split arrangement: ECAHLI's in-country partner brought the land itself into the partnership, which is why the profit split for these three specifically differs from ECAHLI's standard. This is a profit-distribution arrangement only — it carries no separate governance or controlling ownership right. We say so plainly rather than let three real, land-secured developments look like an unexplained exception. See Board Composition & Control ↓.
Africa's Luxury Safari, Wellness & Aviation Estate. Land-secured, open for international procurement across professional consultancy, infrastructure, and main construction phases.
Profit Split: Held through ECAHLI Global Holdings Kenya — 60% Lyeon Kowido / 40% ECAHLI Global Holdings, a scoped, one-time profit arrangement limited to these three developments. Governance runs through the same 7-seat Global Holdings Board as every other Node. Individual homes are sold with direct title to the buyer.
View Project →Coastal resort, residences & wellness retreat on Kenya's southern coast. Land-secured, moving through the same three-phase procurement programme as Tsavo.
Profit Split: Held through ECAHLI Global Holdings Kenya — 60% Lyeon Kowido / 40% ECAHLI Global Holdings, a scoped, one-time profit arrangement limited to these three developments. Governance runs through the same 7-seat Global Holdings Board as every other Node. Individual homes are sold with direct title to the buyer.
View Project →Africa's Luxury Coastal Eco Living, Marina & Blue Economy Destination. Land-secured, anchoring marina engineering and blue economy infrastructure procurement.
Profit Split: Held through ECAHLI Global Holdings Kenya — 60% Lyeon Kowido / 40% ECAHLI Global Holdings, a scoped, one-time profit arrangement limited to these three developments. Governance runs through the same 7-seat Global Holdings Board as every other Node. Individual homes are sold with direct title to the buyer.
View Project →Future Development-division Nodes will be self-funded by ECAHLI Global Holdings at the standard 51% ownership — ECAHLI Global Holdings Kenya's 40% is specific to this one partnership. View the Global Procurement Programme →
Our role as Stewards of ECAHLI is to protect the safety, sustainability, growth, and expansion of every ECAHLI Community Node globally — not to own or control the commercial entities that deliver them.
ECAHLI Global Holdings is governed by a single 7-seat Board of Directors, with authority over every ECAHLI development worldwide — no development sits outside this structure, no exceptions.
Three seats are held by founding directors — Petrus Van Der Merwe, Avery Byron Lillard, and Lyeon Kowido. Four seats remain open for aligned institutional and strategic partners. Each seat carries equal standing as a director. The Founder & CEO's seat additionally carries founder-control rights over reserved matters — including major asset sales, governance changes, and mergers or restructuring — and may only be removed for cause by supermajority vote.
Board authority and profit distribution are kept deliberately separate. Lyeon Kowido holds one equal seat on the Global Holdings Board — the same standing as every director. Separately, ECAHLI Global Holdings distributes profit from three specific developments — Tsavo, Tiwi Bay, and Malindi — on a 60/40 basis (60% to Lyeon, 40% to Global Holdings), reflecting the land he brought into that partnership. This is a profit-sharing arrangement only. It carries no governance authority, no controlling ownership right, and does not extend to any other ECAHLI development.
ECAHLI works with named, verifiable partners rather than unnamed "advisors" — logos and links included with each partner's written permission.
Kenya legal counsel supporting ECAHLI Global Holdings Kenya's registration and compliance work. msaadvocates.co.ke →
ECAHLI is part of the Conscious Enterprises Network, a global community advancing conscious leadership and ethical, stakeholder-aligned business. Verification of ECAHLI's financial and business models was facilitated through connections within the CEN network. consciousenterprises.net →
Every entity in ECAHLI's structure is real and verifiable. The commercial entities below are registered; the Foundation is currently completing its registration process. The full Group Structure Chart below shows jurisdiction, registration, ownership, and operational role for each.
Dutch Stichting, in the process of registration · Asunción, Paraguay HQ
Reg. No. PVT-PQ1E2OM2 · Nairobi, Kenya — Africa Headquarters
UK Co. NI688194
No. C1598798
| Entity | Jurisdiction | Registration No. | Ownership | Operational Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECAHLI Foundation | Netherlands (Dutch Stichting, in formation) | — | Nonprofit — no shareholders | Mission & Community Handbook steward; holds Humanitarian-side property in trust |
| ECAHLI Global Holdings | Global parent — Netherlands registration in progress | — | Founder Class A control; Class B/C investor shares (mechanism pending Dutch counsel) | Global capital deployment, asset & IP steward; governs every ECAHLI development |
| ECAHLI Global Holdings (KE) Ltd | Kenya | PVT-PQ1E2OM2 | 40% ECAHLI Global Holdings / 60% Lyeon Kowido — profit split, Tsavo/Tiwi/Malindi only | Delivers Kenya's Development-division Nodes |
| ECAHLI Limited | United Kingdom | Co. NI688194 | Affiliate of ECAHLI Global Holdings | Regional agreements & institutional relationships |
| ECAHLI LLC | United States | No. C1598798 | Affiliate of ECAHLI Global Holdings | Regional agreements & institutional relationships |
Board directors across ECAHLI Global Holdings: Petrus Van Der Merwe, Avery Byron Lillard, Lyeon Kowido — 3 of 7 seats filled, 4 open for institutional partners. See Board Composition & Control ↑ for governance detail.
Institutional-grade governance means these policies exist as real documents, not informal understanding. Status is stated plainly for each — available to qualified partners and investors on request.
"We are not building a company that happens to do good. We are building a governance structure that makes it structurally impossible to stop doing good — even after we're gone."
Petrus Van Der Merwe — Founder & CEO, ECAHLI Global HoldingsInstitutional partners, DFIs, contractors, residents, and investors are welcome to review the full governance framework, entity registration documents, and Community Handbook directly.
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