Kenya Permaculture Design Courses with Warren Brush
December 6-19, 2010 (Nyumbani Village)
March 4-18, 2011 (Badilisha EcoVillage)
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 (http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya). Or register to take
your Permaculture Design Course in rural Kenya by emailing info@quailsprings.org. Learn how to design
for stability, resilience, and abundance in a village in Kenya that is
dedicated to sustainability and community health.
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’s
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 local teachers. Details are on the
flyer at (http://quailsprings.org/KenyaPDCs.pdf)
Please donate today, or sign up to attend a course,
to help these important courses flourish! Thank you kindly.
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More 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.
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About Warren Brush, Permaculture
Designer and Educator
Warren Brush is a Permaculture Designer and Educator working
mostly in North America and Africa, founder of True Nature Design, and
co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm and Trees for
Children. For more than 20 years, Warren has helped empower thousands of people
in their discovery of sustainable living and respect for land and
communities. He teaches courses including: Permaculture Certification,
Rainwater Harvesting Systems, Ferro-Cement Tank Building, Compost Toilet
Systems, Greywater Solutions, Water for Every Farm, Drought Proofing, Cultural
Mentoring, Introduction to Permaculture Systems, Corporation Sole Formation,
Various Origins Skills, Food Forestry, among other offerings.
Learn more about the organizations directed by Warren: Quail
Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm, www.quailsprings.org, a 450-acre arid land Permaculture
demonstration and educational center located in the southern California
mountains. True Nature Design, www.permaculturedesign.us, is Warren’s Permaculture
design and education company.
Learn more about organizations and projects co-founded by
Warren: Trees for Children, www.treesforchildren.org, is an organization that teaches
youth how to plant trees in ways that contribute to their community’s
resilience and stability. It also raises funds for tree planting
projects. Mentoring for Peace, www.mentoring4peace.com, is a research project that is
discovering the nature of how to mentor our children to be peacemakers with
broad concentric rings of influence. Wilderness Youth Project, www.wyp.org,
a youth centered organization that mentors youth in learning nature observation
and origins skills.
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Please make a donation today to
support Permaculture education in Kenya at ChipIn (http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya)
Contact
to register to take your Permaculture Design Course in rural Kenya: Kolmi
Majumdar, email info@quailsprings.org or phone 805-886-7239.