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