Facility types — VisibleAid

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Restaurant, open to the street
Kitchen
Bedroom — 3 ground floor, 7 upstairs (10 total, one per resident)
Shared bathroom — 2 ground floor (also used by restaurant customers), 2 upstairs (4 total), each ~1/3 the size of a bedroom

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Depth · full-time home

Shared housing

A full home for elderly people with no family able to support them. Residents share cooking, cleaning, and upkeep, rotated by an elected resident committee based on individual ability. A small resident-run food stall, like a restaurant, covers most of the house's own food costs — residents are trained to cook both to feed themselves and to earn an income, without having to travel anywhere to work. Land and building are held through a local NGO partner and reused for the next resident when a room becomes free.

Typical residents15–20

Cost to sponsor, basic spec$9k–15k

Cost to sponsor, durable spec$25k–40k

Ongoing costpartly self-funded

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Reach · community facility

Shared kitchen & bath

Hygienic latrines, a private bathing area, and a basic communal cooking space for households that already have shelter but lack decent facilities — open to the whole community, not only elderly residents. The community contributes a share of the cost and labor, and elects its own maintenance committee — ownership that keeps these facilities cleaner and better maintained than fully donor-built ones.

Households served per block20–40

Donor $ leverage~$18 per $1

Annual upkeep, per person~$2

"Leverage" means every $1 of donor grant money triggers roughly $18 in additional labor and cash the community itself puts toward building it.

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Kitchen — 4 total, open doorway (no door), facing the front. Deeper than the bathrooms — room for a prep counter and a stove.
Shared bathroom — 5 total, mixed-gender, doors face the rear, opposite the kitchens