[Scpg] Permaculture in rural Kenya - Please Support or Take Your Permaculture Design Course !

[Quail Springs]

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>  (
<http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya>
http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya).  Or register to
take your Permaculture Design Course in rural Kenya by emailing
<mailto:info at quailsprings.org> info at 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>
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  <http://www.nyumbani.org/> Nyumbani Village and
<http://www.badilisha.org/> Badilisha EcoVillage:

 

 <http://www.nyumbani.org/> 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.

 

 <http://www.badilisha.org/> 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,  <http://www.quailsprings.org/>
www.quailsprings.org, a 450-acre arid land Permaculture demonstration and
educational center located in the southern California mountains.  True
Nature Design,  <http://www.permaculturedesign.us/>
www.permaculturedesign.us, is Warren's Permaculture design and education
company.  

 

Learn more about organizations and projects co-founded by Warren:  Trees for
Children,  <http://www.treesforchildren.org/> 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,
<http://www.mentoring4peace.com/> 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,  <http://www.wyp.org/> 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
<http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya> ChipIn (
<http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya>
http://truenatuedesign.chipin.com/permaculture-for-kenya)



Contact to register to take your Permaculture Design Course in rural Kenya:
Kolmi Majumdar, email  <mailto:info at quailsprings.org> info at quailsprings.org
or phone 805-886-7239.

 

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