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Food and Trees for Africa!

On Friday, March 16th, Sustainable World is broadcasting an interview with Jeunesse Park, CEO of the non-profit Food & Trees For Africa. Since the early 1990s Jeunesse has played a significant role in changing consciousness and regenerating the landscape in South Africa.

FTFA is a non-profit organization that has assisted tens of thousands of people by greening unhealthy, denuded and degraded landscapes through diverse programs; including national school garden competitions, community gardens, and urban forestry projects. FTFA extended its operations to assist organizations working in the field of HIV/AIDS, helping to reduce the potentially devastating effects of the disease by establishing permaculture food growing projects at clinics, schools, and in public open spaces. 

Jeunesse introduced Permaculture to South Africa when she brought Bill Mollison there in 1991. Since then she has organized annual Permaculture Design courses in South Africa, training hundreds of people and facilitators. 

Wesley Rowe and Margie Bushman of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network will be in studio to talk with Jeunesse about the upcoming fundraiser "Africa to Brazil". Wes and Margie are raising funds to bring four members of FTFA from South Africa to Brazil for the 8th International Permaculture Conference. (IPC8) 

Sustainable World Radio: Friday mornings at 9:00 am PST on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California and streaming live on
KCSB.org. 

Thanks for tuning in!

Jill, Kevin and Suzanne

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