[Santa_Cruz_Permaculture] Permaculture Design Course in Kenya this December with Warren Brush

[Quail Springs]

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   

 

 

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