[Sdpg] FUNDRAISER for Food Security in Zimbabwe through Permaculture -Julious Piti

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Food Security in Zimbabwe through Permaculture 

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-security-in-zimbabwe-through-permaculture

This is a fundraiser for my friend Julious Piti organization Chikukwa in Zimbabwe.Julious came to Santa Barbara 2 years ago and presented the amazing work of 20 years  PLEASE SUPPORT $3000 of $7000 has been raised so far in the US 

as John Seed  wrote Last year we found out about Chikukwa where permaculture has naturalized itself and in 22 years, moved a community of 7000 people from hunger and malnutrition to abundance. I coauthored an article about this with Australian academic Terry Leahy who has been conducting research on food security projects in Africa since 2003 and regards the Chikukwa project as the most successful he has encountered and the best model he has seen that would likely succeed in  other parts of Africa.

Last year  we raised $2000 for a pilot “train the trainer” programme  to prepare the Chikukwa community to host a group of about  20 farmers from elsewhere in Zimbabwe. Following the successful conclusion of this training  we asked them  to prepare us a proposal  and budget and are now raising $13,000 so that farmers from the poor community of Murehwa can travel to Chikukwa and be housed, fed and trained for 2 weeks in the permaculture 

I’ll start the ball rolling with a $3000 donation and am setting up two crowdfunding sites, this one to try and raise $7000 on indiegogo (with tax deductibility for US$ donations through our longtime US partners the Earthways Foundation) and another to try and raise $3000 on www.gofundme.com/3wckl0 that will do the same for Aussie 
http://vimeo.com/36582870