 Through contacts developed in the field that started as modest grassroots relief efforts for suffering remote villagers in Eritrea during the late stages of its war of independence with Ethiopia, Sato solidified and focused the approaches behind the current Manzanar Project that centers in the Eritrean desert on the Red Sea.The project focuses on building economic development by application of the simplest biological principles to develop an entire self-sufficient economy village by village.The base of the support system centers on development of mangrove forests along the desert coastline.