Projects

Dusoma exists to prove that technology can serve humanity better than trickle-down profit ever will.

Dusoma Projects

We build tools, fund field projects, and partner with communities and large endowments to turn ideas into working infrastructure—from clean water systems and waste management pilots to digital microgrants and universal access to information. We even help re-design grants to better support community co-prosperity goals.

Our model is simple: Only humans can solve systemic problems. Marla.AI scales the solutions.

Completed Work

In our first two years, with less than $100,000, Dusoma’s team completed over a dozen small pilot projects across the U.S. and East Africa, all driven by lived experience and transparent data. We launched Marla.AI, a humanitarian chatbot maker, supported Universal Basic Income pilots in three refugee camps, got most of a documentary in the can, launched Taza Impact’s “Queer Fashion as Resistance” Fashion House, and completed two successful evacuations from South Sudan.

We also built the foundation for ethical data collection for endangered languages and vulnerable people. and designed tools for refugee resettlement case management.

These weren’t just prototypes—they were proofs of concept that show what humanitarian technology can do when the only goal is alleviation of suffering. (We are a “Never-for-Profit”)

Current Work

Right now, Dusoma is focused on operational stability and rapid deployment.

Projects in active development include:

• Expanding the Dusoma Workers Union, ensuring living wages, working conditions and benefits for all our workers – from refugee data contributors to expert advisors.  
• Continuing to build Marla.AI, (Dusoma’s AI)  – and launching only as safety allows. Learn about our election chatbot that was so powerful, we paused for safety concerns needing further community review.
• Near Future: Building the Clean Water Is Healthcare coalition with pharmaceutical foundations
• Developing the Free Phone and Telecom Pilot to deliver low-cost internet access across East Africa, along with a suite of free, humanitarian-apps that help people “escape from poverty” initially in East Africa and now in the U.S.
• Completing Shalom’s documentary “Before the Boats”, a story of courage and displacement, immediately after the Taza Impact Fashion show on 11/15/25 in Denver, CO.

Each project is built to be replicated, funded, and scaled by other organizations through our open-source platform.

Future Projects

Some of our most ambitious projects are ready to begin the moment funding is secured:

• CA$H Now – a digital microgrant program that distributes small amounts of money quickly to those in need. Now called “SNAP CA$H”- an aspirational in-store coupon program.
Clean Future Africa (Sierra Leone) – a pilot to turn trash into jobs and safe infrastructure
• The Magic Rainbow Butterfly Smartphone – a white label device that helps people in conflict zones
• The Dusoma Coin – a $10,000 collectible gold coin ($1,000 meltable gold) that funds refugee programs and is predicted to be an overnight success, limited edition of 10.
• Who Should I Vote For? – Marla.AI quiz that finds candidates that serve your needs and interests. 

Phases of Growth

  1. Vision to Scale – Build prototypes and partnerships that prove new humanitarian models can work.
  2. Global Infrastructure Pilot – Use AI to manage data, grants, and transparent delivery at regional scale.
  3. Marla.AI for Money, Power and Justice – Collective understanding to go from “speaking truth to power” to complex societal change.

Not-for-Profit vs. Never-for-Profit

Most nonprofits still depend on profit logic—growth, accumulation, and control.
Dusoma’s model is different. Never-for-profit means we are not designed to enrich ourselves or any entity. We act as a pass-through organization, using our network to connect us with trusted friends, AI to analyze public data, identify what works, use our AI to make exact and transparent plans and budgets – and arrange for surgical precision funding.

Dusoma is a humanitarian AI technology ecosystem, building tools for refugees in camps across Africa—tools food, water and survival. What we didn’t expect was how quickly those same tools would become necessary here in the United States. From Navajo communities still without indoor plumbing after 100 years, to large corporate slumlords in Aurora, Colorado, to ICE putting lawyers in jail along with their clients – we call it the “Thirdworldization of America”.

By late 2025, we realized we are all asking for the same thing from Marla.AI: How can we have  basic human rights? How can technology help us survive opression? Or if nothing else, how can we use humanitarian technology to fight the corporate technology that harms us every day?

In 2026 we focus on helping our partners leverage human wisdom with technology to tackle the biggest challenges to reduce poverty: Money, Power and Justice. We will prototype microgrant networks that deliver cash directly to phones, technology that breaks down barriers to funding, and helping Americans understand candidate’s policy positions and approach to fixing problems that perpetuate inequality. Co-prosperity happens when we unite and realize we have enough resources for everyone.

As we often say:
“If you’re a millionaire hoping to become a billionaire, our AI has nothing to offer you.”
But if you want to reduce poverty 80% in the next two years, it has everything.

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• Clean Water Is Healthcare Initiative
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