Last chance to join us this coming December in Kenya for a special Permaculture Design Course offering with teacher Warren Brush from Quail Springs Permaculture and True Nature Design!  We have a few spaces still available for international students to be a part of this unique course at Nyumbani Village outside of Nairobi.  

Nyumbani Village is a place that offers so much to the local people by taking in, housing, feeding and training orphaned children and elders of people who have died from HIV related illnesses in one of the poorest districts in Kenya.  If you are interested in or currently working in International Development, this course will give you hands-on experience in the theory and application of Permaculture.

Nyumbani Village is an ecovillage that was started in 2005 to provide a supportive community for 1,000 HIV/AIDS orphans to live, grow, learn important life skills and eventually reintegrate back into their home communities as successful Kenyan leaders.  The Village practices permaculture principles to integrate homes, vegetable gardens, forestry, animal husbandry, water harvesting catchments and conservation, waste recycling to build soils, schools and polytechnics, income generating and social activities in a natural environment of 1,000 acres.  Nyumbani Village is also an important employment, education, health, and social center to residents from the surrounding community (www.nyumbani.org/village_need.htm).  

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PERMACULTURE IN KENYA

Take Your Permaculture Design Certification Course in Kenya

NYUMBANI VILLAGE - DECEMBER 6-19, 2010

BADILISHA ECOVILLAGE - MARCH 4-18, 2011

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.

AN INTERNATIONAL LEARNING JOURNEY

* Earn your Permaculture Design Certification

* Contribute to the essential work that is bettering the lives of so many people in Kenya

* Gain hands-on skills in sustainable systems design and application in a village setting

* Water harvesting, storage, and conservation strategies that drought proof landscapes

* Local food security and waste cycling

* Dryland agriculture strategies  

* Appropriate technology, ecological building, energy efficiency, food forestry, and much more...

Cost: $950*

Includes meals, camping and instruction, *Does not include transportation

www.quailsprings.org

www.permaculturedesign.us