Permoafrica centre organization
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I am Paul Odiwuor Ogola, a qualified permaculture teacher and designer. I trained with Steve Jones from Wales UK of Sector39.co.uk, travelling to Uganda for the first time to complete a full two-week PDC in 2016. After the training I was deeply inspired and grateful for the immensely valuable contribution of the Permaculture Design Core Curriculum. For me the experience helped me bring forward wisdom and teaching from the past, flavoured with present brilliance and developments. I felt I can help create many possibilities for the next evolution of Permaculture. After the training I just didn’t know how to share what I learned with my community. I literally sat in my home for a few days wondering what I can do until I realised, I had to start my own training centre.
The result is for me to have a mission, that of teaching and facilitating Permaculture knowledge & technology to my community. Three years on and already so many people benefit from this very practical and beautifully crafted text that skilfully weaves them together. I am proud to say I am the founder of community permaculture project called PermoAfrica Centre: https://permoafrica-centre.weebly.com/ We are an approved Registered Community Base Organization {CBO} permaculture farming group with the Government of Kenya, situated in the South Western part of Kawiya Village located in the Northern part of Korayo Sub Location, Kochia Central Location, Rangwe District in Homa-Bay county. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for many people in our villages and communities and to work towards an environment without poverty. Our work is to introduce permaculture practices and policies that will support the creation of prosperous sustainable organic farmers through re-connecting our surrounding community with 3 permaculture ethics (People Care, Earth Care and Fare Share). We want to create a mind that sees the world as an interconnected set of dynamic patterns and systems. We achieve this by forming small community farming groups aiming to ensure that new farming development serves the needs of local community farmers. Through this permaculture project we inform and empower individuals and communities through training, using the knowledge on how Permaculture and related agroecological practices can put the power of the people back into the hands of the many. Projects that rebuild our shared home beyond its former glory, results in a way forward for a whole community and their involvement in regular activities. Leaving the chemicals behind Bad farming practices over many decades means many of Kenya's soils are badly degraded, people can no longer afford the farming inputs and are very receptive to new ideas of natural farming at this time. Training focuses on new farming technology and practices to provide not only nutrient-rich and chemical free sustainable food supplies but also that encourages healthy prosperous disease-free life on earth and clean land, water and air, as well as alternative energy. For us permaculture is an economic system for all life and we believe in a community network of self-reliant, local regenerative enterprises dedicated to fair labour and exchange. An approach that brings great value to their local community is the only sustainable social, economic, and ecological solution that will result in the avoidance of the collapse of our way of life and the pending extinction of life on earth. Community focus PermoAfrica Centre is always sharing the knowledge with our community on important issues, we are looking at short- and long-term strategies on farming yield production so that we have stable supply all year. A strong local food production to meet the demands of our people in the communities thus creates good investment and business that results in stable economic status of our people in the communities by taking action. There is a common feeling of building resilient futures - a future full of strong communities taking powerful action, using a new generation of design thinking to create flourishing & sustainable systems creating environmental benefits and mitigating environmental impacts. PermoAfrica Centre has organized a permaculture team based in Kawiya village with a view of supporting the strategies for shaping the communities. So through Permaculture speaks a real truth that has never been more urgently needed!. Paul Odiwuor Ogola permoafrica@gmail.com |
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Our focus is to support practice and policies that will sustain young & adult independent and prosperous farmers now and in the future. |
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Mission goals
To Promote ecological thinking and permaculture principles.
To Inspire diverse, productive and regenerative design.
To Engage Community through intentional gatherings and shared experiences.
To Build Capacity through education, resource sharing and hands-on learning.
To Enact and Embody the principles of permaculture.
To Include all people who wish to be a part of the permaculture community at PermoAfrica Centre.
To Inspire diverse, productive and regenerative design.
To Engage Community through intentional gatherings and shared experiences.
To Build Capacity through education, resource sharing and hands-on learning.
To Enact and Embody the principles of permaculture.
To Include all people who wish to be a part of the permaculture community at PermoAfrica Centre.
VISION
Our vision is to educate and empower the rural communities to escape extreme poverty. We envision a community where young & adult people who are willing to work, get trained and take a little risk, can support themselves and their families in farming through sharing information, new farming technology / innovation on Permaculture and Organic farming in order to facilitate an open source approach to decentralized permaculture education.
We LOVE our community, LOVE our jobs. We also LOVE learning new ways to approach the work.
For that reason we are calling for your action to help us raise the funds to help us construct the community Permaculture Learning & Resource Centre.
We want to embrace our role as ecological leaders and engage in activities that build more resilient, connected and empowered communities, whereby we can live in a mutually beneficial relationship with the earth.
We LOVE our community, LOVE our jobs. We also LOVE learning new ways to approach the work.
For that reason we are calling for your action to help us raise the funds to help us construct the community Permaculture Learning & Resource Centre.
We want to embrace our role as ecological leaders and engage in activities that build more resilient, connected and empowered communities, whereby we can live in a mutually beneficial relationship with the earth.
OBJECTIVES
- Build Capacity: Expand the knowledge and practice of permaculture in the villages and communities.
- Connect Communities: Strengthen the community of permaculture practitioners in our community and individuals interested in ecological design through intentional gatherings, shared experiences, and resource sharing.
- Create Sustainable Communities: Use permaculture principles to bring about actions and interactions that contribute to human and ecological health and wellbeing.
Registered by government
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Recognized by volunteers
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certified by permaculturalists |
