Permaculture Courses in Kenya...Attend or Support!
You can help support the teaching of a Permaculture Design Certification Course in Kenya at Nyumbani Village in December of 2010 and in Badilisha EcoVillage in March of 2011. Make a donation today on ChipIn or register to take your Permaculture Design Course in rural Kenya.
Learn how how to design for stability, resilience, and abundance at villages in Kenya that are dedicated to sustainability. Nyumbani Village, in the Kitui District 2-hours from Nairobi, is home to hundreds of elders and children who were orphaned by family members who have died of HIV/AIDS. Badilisha EcoVillage, on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, operates orphan feeding programs, local scholarship funds, women empowerment and family adoption programs. These courses will be facilitated by Warren Brush, the co-founder of Quail Springs Permaculture Farm and True Nature Design with other local teachers.
Details are on the flyer athttp://quailsprings.org/KenyaPDCs.pdf
Contact Warren Brush directly at w@quailsprings.org for more information.
Please donate today to help these important courses flourish! Thank you kindly.
More Information on Nyumbani Village and Badilisha EcoVillage:
Nyumbani Village's vision is creating a self-sustaining community to serve orphans and elders who have been left behind by the lost generation of the HIV pandemic. The Village provides a family-like setting for orphaned children under the stewardship of elderly adults and seeks to ensure that the children receive love, sustenance, health-care, holistic education and culture transfer, aiming at their physical, psychosocial and spiritual development, and, at the same time, providing holistic care and support for the grandparents in their later years. Through group homes and community services, the Village seeks to harness the energy of youth and the maturity of elders to create new blended families that foster healing, hope and opportunity. The village also seeks to ensure that the residents in the surrounding communities reach a certain level of self-reliance through the Village sustainability program.Nyumbani Village stands on one thousand acres of land donated by the Kitui District County Council. The Village is located 3 hours East of Nairobi. The site is within the poorest division in the Kitui District and has a high incidence of HIV and a high number of HIV orphans. When complete, the Village will accommodate approximately 1000 orphans and 100 grandparents living in 100 dwelling units each with a grandparent and 8 - 10 children.
Badilisha EcoVillage has been organized to make a valuable contribution to the social, economic, emotional, mental, spiritual and physical health of Rusinga Island, Kenya. It is our vision to achieve this through the following departments:EARTH CARE: Establish and maintain a community in and from which Earth Care and environmental conservation will be supported in all thinkable aspects. Grow food on basis of perm culture, to establish a resource centre, to organize research and outreach programs and develop ecotourism. Promote new and cutting edge technology to improve the living conditions within the community.
SCHOOL POOL: Is a collection of support for local schools to be empowered to create change. Badilisha will work in partnership with schools to assist with resources, student and teacher scholarships, feeding programs for orphans and funding for projects that improve the educational environment.
FAMILY SPONSORSHIP: Create a sponsor network around the world to enable families to become productive and active members of the community. Families will be supported with aid to create income, pay school fees, improve food production and shelter until they become self-sufficient and self-reliant.HIV/AIDS: Generate actions towards reduction of the pandemic HIV/AIDS, and to restore self-confidence in people who suffer from this.
SCHOOL POOL: Is a collection of support for local schools to be empowered to create change. Badilisha will work in partnership with schools to assist with resources, student and teacher scholarships, feeding programs for orphans and funding for projects that improve the educational environment.
FAMILY SPONSORSHIP: Create a sponsor network around the world to enable families to become productive and active members of the community. Families will be supported with aid to create income, pay school fees, improve food production and shelter until they become self-sufficient and self-reliant.HIV/AIDS: Generate actions towards reduction of the pandemic HIV/AIDS, and to restore self-confidence in people who suffer from this.
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