Frequently Asked Questions

Our mission at Enough For Every One is to help collectives secure a high quality of life for every member through targeted support, cooperative care, mutual aid, and collective bargaining. 

Times are tough all over, and we hope to help make it easier for collectives to take care of one another. We hope to share and co-create tools for easily staying connected and equitably distributing resources. 

Individual collectives will choose their strategies and we’ll help share what works with our beloved community of collectives.

Just as we all share certain unalienable rights, we also share basic human needs. We include in these food, clean water, basic utilities, transportation, and shelter, as our foundation. 

We believe through humankind's endless ingenuity, creativity, and capacity to care for one another we can all have enough to fulfill our basic human needs. We’re focused on these areas now, and once we have this foundation firmly established for our collectives, we hope to start building towards including other basics like education, health care, and transformative justice. 

We must all help secure our mutual survival in the face of organized abandonment and apathy from corporate systems and government entities. Each collective is a star in the vast constellation of care we hope to eventually build, and each one will define their vision of “enough” and experiment to help their members achieve it. 

Each collective is a lakou that supports at will household membership. Each lakou is focused on self-determined areas of care and aid, and operates with the goal of cultivating abundance for all of their members. 

So every 1 means every household member of our individual lakous, without exception. 

Each household member chooses when and what they request their lakou's contributions to provide for in a transparent fashion. Each lakou household supports each other as best they can to help smooth out the bumps in the road of life. But when funds are tight they can also petition the broader collective of lakous for aid. Each household and household member is empowered to pursue their own provisions and then contribute to their individual lakou, or the broader collective of lakous, from their abundance.

After Haiti emerged victorious in its historic revolution against settler colonial subjugation and the criminal international enterprise of chattel slavery, it necessarily formed strong defenses as a sovereign independent Black nation. The building block of which was the lakou. The Lakou is the name given to a cluster of homes surrounding a shared central courtyard where households participate in an egalitarian system enacted to care for and protects one another. Lakous operate as decentralized self-determining units of care outside of the machinations of the state. 

A lakou is both an organizational structure and an extended family of households caring for one another in shared community.  

In the early years of Haiti's independence each lakou being empowered to take individual action to safeguard against the return of plantation order proved itself to be a powerful force. Later, as Haiti gradually became more urban the lakou adapted and evolved beyond its territorial roots. We are adopting this model in the face of government corruption, state-sanctioned violence, and organized abandonment. All our households are physical spaces where people collaborate to survive and thrive, but the courtyards that binds us are rarely physical. 

We're weaving ourselves together in the lakou model to be a safety net for each other and Enough 4 Every 1 is our shared virtual courtyard.

We believe in humanity and our potential to co-create the future we want by collaborating to build a society based on equality, mutual respect, non-violence, and love for each other. We believe in universal inalienable human rights, and doing no harm. 

We strive to hold ourselves accountable for outcomes by always watching and measuring the fruit of our work. We recall this focus on the fruits with the QUEENNS mnemonic for our core values. 

This means ensuring the fruit that we bear aligns with our highest standards for collective Quality of Life, fostering Unity, Equity, Equality, and Non-violence, with a bias towards action and providing what members need Now as good Stewards using honest sustainable practices.