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The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Brenda is a Permayouth hub leader and educator in northern Uganda. She teaches permaculture to young women and single mothers and hosts kitchen garden ‘permablitzes’ in their homes to help address food insecurity, climate change and poverty. With these funds, Brenda will create a Permayouth learning centre, a tool library, start a local seed exchange network and focus on water security for local food projects.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Eddie has engaged in the world of permaculture for nine years, has completed three PDCs and is part of a non-profit permaculture project called Jóvenes en Permacultura (JEP) to build a community of young people to share and learn about permaculture together. In just two years, JEP now has 40 members, who holistically explore the multiple dimensions of permaculture. Eddie has also collaborated and led workshops with Permacultura Mediterránea. The award will help set up the permaculture learning centre with tools and equipment needed, enable free expert workshops to members and the community, and help JEP to be the seeds of change.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Growing up on the island of Zanzibar, Lulu practised unschooling through a permaculture lens. She is a co-founder of the global Permayouth movement and an accredited permaculture designer. Her passion is offering permaculture education programmes for children in her local school. Lulu has started the KINS independent school garden project for 3-12 year olds – sharing permaculture, greening the school, addressing waste, growing organically, and rewilding spaces. She has designed the engaging program that she shares weekly. Lulu will use this prize to create an outdoor classroom space, access seeds and tools for the learning garden, and purchase a bicycle to travel to the school to teach permaculture.
The 2019 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £5,000, divided amongst three winners, to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. By restoring the land on her family farm in Deming, New Mexico, Maria is showcasing how dry climate and barren soils can be turned into food-producing and revenue generating lands through permaculture practices. The prize money will support Maria’s work to create a more diverse food system and share examples of how regenerative farming practices can offer a path out of poverty. The funds will help her to plant up the family’s farmshare-based farm with fruit, nut, nitrogen fixing and legume trees which will form a windbreak and regulate soil temperature across the site.
The 2019 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £5,000, divided amongst three winners, to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. The first place winner, Qasim uses permaculture design to transform schools into models for basic human security in areas of extreme poverty, violence, and war in Afghanistan. Having completed Rosemary Morrow’s Permaculture Design Course with the organization Afghan Peace Volunteers in 2016, Qasim belives that permaculture can create a systematic change for schools in Afghanistan. With the support from the Youth in Permaculture Prize, Qasim will work to implement his full permaculture design for the Rahnaward Danish School in Kabul and create and test a curriculum to share with other schools and ultimately the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan.
The 2019 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £5,000, divided amongst three winners, to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. Through their book and workshop series, Brackenology Toto, students and adults are invited to connect with the natural world and learn through conceptual interpretation and creative activities based around beautiful illustrations and compelling stories of plants. The prize money will support them in planting over 100,000 indigenous trees and provide fifty children in Limuru, Kenya the opportunity to participate in the Montessori and permaculture influenced Green Curriculum.
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The 2018 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £1000 to the runners up, chosen from applicants from 15 countries who proposed projects that utilize permaculture to work towards a more just and equitable future. After being devastated by hurricane Maria, John Lago Gonzalez turned his family farm in Puerto Rico into a showcase for how permaculture techniques can help increase natural disaster resilience. The prize funds will help him establish a small food waste collection initiative and a tree and herb nursery, and which will act as a model example for how other communities can build resilience.
The 2018 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £3000 to the first place winner, chosen from applicants from 15 countries who proposed porjects that utilize permaculture to work towards a more just and equitble future. Millicent uses permaculture methods to feed orphans, school children, and the homeless in Kenya. She cares for 16 orphans and teaches the children how to grow their own food, and she shares the surplus garden produce with a homeless feeding program which supports 150 homeless children. Millicent’s award will support her in purchasing teaching materials and cooking equipment for the orphanage and street feeding programs.
The 2018 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £1000 to the runners up, chosen from applicants from 15 countries who proposed projects that utilize permaculture to work towards a more just and equitable future. Felipe grows fresh, organic vegetables in the village of Salinas, high in the Ecuadorian mountains. He aims to create a shared space in Ecuador’s capital, where organic and permaculture producers from across the country can sell their produce whilst educating the nation. This prize will support Felipe in establishing an organic shop in Ecudaor’s capital city of Quito, where many permaculture farms can centrally distribute their produce and products.
The 2021 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £3000 to the first place winners to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. The Malawi School Permaculture Clubs program is designed to improve sustainability and create true systemic change through a community-led and owned decentralized model to be self-run in the long-term to. With over 2,000 participants, 22 schools, and 120 trained teachers, MSPC works with remote schools in areas greatly challenged by food insecurity and climate change in one of the least developed countries in the world. They emphasize the value of local resources and teach participants how to reduce the need for expensive external inputs while creating economic opportunities for youth by growing food with permaculture practices.
The 2021 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £3000 to the first place winners to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges Founded in 2014, Schools and Colleges Permaculture Programme (SCOPE Kenya) teaches permaculture and agroecology through a holistic approach working with students, teachers, parents, local leaders, and communities in Kenya. They transform degraded land into productive landscapes, grow food security, and connect youth to nature and culture by offering training in sustainable development and natural resource management. By focusing on working with youth, SCOPE empowers the next generation to grow a brighter future.
The 2021 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £2000 to the runners up to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. Working to create a harmonious society by building peace with people and the planet, Education for Climate Action offers programs working with youth refugees and asylum seekers, and low income high school and college students in Malaysia who lost their livelihood during the COVID 19 pandemic. The youth are trained in permaculture, and then work with initiatives such as producing ‘Garden to Table’ recipes and cooking videos in multiple languages. The surplus vegetables are donated to a refugee center, and starter veggie pots are given to low income Malaysian families to start their own home kitchen gardens. Through many other innovative programs, youth are offered a means to be part of the solution to food insecurity and climate change while creating a sense of inner peace by finding purpose and mutual support.
The 2021 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £2000 to the runners up to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. Nineteen year old Jefferson Rodolfo Anchundia Yumbo is president and spokesperson for the Sachawaysa Forest Defenders in the rainforest Archidona, Ecuador. He works to repair damaged soils and provide nutritious food to his community by promoting the planting of ancestral crops in home gardens. He helps give a voice to his Kichwa people through social media and ecotourism. With the support from the Spring Prize and Youth in Permaculture Prize, he will purchase land as a demonstration site to train other youth to grow ancestral foods and trees, as well as create a vegetarian cookbook of indigenous recipes to encourage youth to reconnect to their cultural roots while healing the ecosystem. Jefferson also trains his counterparts to use GPS and other technology to help monitor reforestation efforts.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. AgustÃn is a leader with the RenaSER group in San Rafael, Antioquia, Colombia. He has helped lead four nature immersion meetings benefitting 40 youth between 14 and 21 years old who currently live in vulnerable situations, 80% of which are young women. These meetings work to provide the opportunity to connect with nature and engage in self-reflection, valuing the Earth as a source of healing and generating a deep respect for the environment. The prize money will support AgustÃn organize and lead a six day nature immersion experience in the Arenal River Hydrographic Basin for 15 rural youth who are victims of armed conflict.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Carla is a youth leader with Collective Wave’s Sikuanga Wasi project. They are currently working to develop an ecovillage in the Amazon Jungle of Ecuador, working together with the Acua Puerto community to create a regenerative culture, recover ancestral native Kichhwa knowledge of the region, and protect the rainforest. The prize money will support the construction of a home base for the Collective Wave community to use as a learning center, workshop space, and community hub.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Chayton is a co-founder of Junglo, a reforestation and native plant recovery company based in Indonesia. He is passionate about using his extensive forestry, farming, and permaculture education to combat deforestation in Indonesia. The prize money will support him in planting native self-sufficient forests around schools in Denpasar, Bali. Chayton hopes that this project will create a ripple effect and lead to a future where Indonesia’s biodiversity is restored and protected. Learn more here: Junglo.org.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. A member of Landmatters Permaculture Community in Devon, United Kingdom, Kuki uses her passion for music to share about their permaculture community. She worked with her brother to build an off grid solar powered recording studio in their community, and will use the prize money to open the studio to local urban youth and build a small residential cabin for visitors and expanding their solar power infrastructure. Kuki believes that spreading awareness about the power of permaculture through music can make huge strides in expanding the global permaculture movement, encouraging the rest of the world to see that a regenerative, holistic way of life is achievable.
The 2020 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £2500 to the runners up, chosen from applicants from 15 countries who proposed projects that utilize permaculture to work towards a more just and equitable future. Ola works with Refarmers and the Grandmother’s Kitchen Garden project in Kitgum, Uganda to set up nutritious kitchen gardens to bring quick growing food and the opportunity for sustainable livelihoods to over 1500 vulnerable elderly, mothers, and children. The award will support Ola in taking part in an online change-makers permaculture course, as well as in turning his home into a mini learning centre to pass on his permaculture knowledge to other youth. Learn more here: Refarmers.Â
The 2020 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £2500 to the runners up, chosen from applicants from 15 countries who proposed projects that utilize permaculture to work towards a more just and equitable future. Permayouth is a global initiative led by and for people around 11-16 years of age that connects young people who are passionate about the future of our planet. Monthly global festivals bring young people together from around the world, including Permayouth teams in refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda and weekly Permayouth meet-ups online teach about permaculture. The award will support Permayouth in providing seeds, tools, and free permaculture education with the goal of fighting hunger. Learn more here: www.permayouth.org.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Eugenio holds a certificate in Permaculture Design and is currently working alongside other youth and with the Permaculture Timor-Leste organization to facilitate water conservation, enviornmental rehabilitation, and permaculture in Aileu, Timor-Leste. The prize money will help Eugenio expand permaculture efforts among youth in his community, with the goal of increasing food security and access to clean water.
The 2020 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £5,000 to the grand prize winner to support youth projects using innovative farming and education practices to combat climate change and social challenges. Deng and the Vijana Twaweza Club (VTC) use permaculture as a means of combatting extreme poverty and environmental degradation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and the Kalobeyei Settlement in Kenya. The prize will support the VTC in teaching 30 youth about indigenous food ecosystem restoration, provide participants with vegetable seeds, and support 1000 girls in pursuing formal educations in Kakuma and Kalobeyei.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Ansima shares her permaculture education with her community by hosting training workshops for adults and children, 70% of which are women, in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. She envisions a regenerative future for refugee camps, where every person has their daily needs met and the community is self-sustaining. The prize will help her with development of a demonstration garden to be used for permaculture education at the Nakivale Refugee Settlement.
The 2022 Youth in Permaculture Prize awarded £10,000 divided amongst 10 youth projects which aim to restore the ecosystems and social systems of the world. Roisin leads a female forward colletive of farmers and community members passionate about permaculture in a rural cattle county in northern NSW Australia. They aim to relocalize their community food system, focusing on increasing resilience and regeneration through permaculture education, specifically through a demonstration farm/education center which is connected to a community owned food co-op. The prize money will support Roisin in expanding education facilities on the farm, improving the food co-op, and purchasing insurance for school programs on the farm. Her ultimate goal is to unify social and environmental health to create a holistic, sustainable framework for the next generation.
In 2020-2021, we supported Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) with a regular donation to their work. ERC provides immersive experiences worldwide, enabling individuals to forge a profound bond with the environment and actively contribute to land restoration efforts. Through hands-on engagement, participants gain firsthand knowledge and actively participate in restoring the Earth. These communities offer a range of long-term volunteer opportunities that encompass various aspects such as camp building, communication, restoration work, and even testing business ideas. Additionally, they also welcome Master’s and PhD program students seeking to conduct research by collecting data for a camp.
In 2021, we took on SOL Projex as one of our fiscally sponsored projects. SOL Projex – Sustainable Organic Living is a non-profit organization based in Kauai, Hawaii. Their mission is to inspire a more holistic, sustainable, and inclusive future for life on Earth. They focus on restoring the planet’s health by implementing ecological design and construction practices that utilize local, invasive species and green building materials. This innovative approach aims to address the lack of environmentally-friendly buildings not only on Kauai but also in other locations.
SOL Projex combines cutting-edge research on green technologies with ancient traditions that emphasize strong community-building. Through their work, they are reshaping the future of human evolution and leading the way in the process of environmental healing.
The Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation (VUFFF) is an intergenerational, cross-cultural knowledge sharing community in the form of urban food forests, medicinal gardens, Indigenous foodlands and collective gardens as well as land-based and online learning spaces. VUFFF’s mission is to transform Vancouver’s neighbourhoods into the nourishing spaces they should be. They work to amplify and prioritize Indigenous ways of knowing and marginalized voices in their public parks and green spaces, and they transform their environment through community knowledge-sharing, food forests and by creating hubs for mutual aid and exchange.
Learn more by visiting https://vufff.org/
Refarmers is a nonprofit organization who utilize regenerative food growing as a catalyst to create positive social and environmental change.Â
The Grandmothers’ Kitchen Garden Project is an initiative led by project manager Patrick Paul Kidega in response to the severe hunger and food shortages caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in East Africa. Recognizing the immense pressure on grandmothers caring for orphaned children and the closure of schools, Patrick and his team have selected 15 elderly women aged 70 and above to design and cultivate 10m by 3m kitchen gardens. These gardens will be planted with assorted vegetables, including onions, eggplants, and tomatoes, ensuring a quick harvest within two weeks. Additionally, Patrick has mobilized 59 young volunteers who are eager to contribute by learning permaculture skills and assisting in the garden preparations. Participants will not only help provide nutritious food for the elderly women and their families but will also gain valuable knowledge to grow their own food. The project aims to inspire others during this challenging time and combat the impending hunger crisis in the region.
Learn more by visiting https://refarmers.org/grandmothers-kitchen-garden-project/
Tiny Gardens is a collaboration between Refarmers and Abundant Earth Foundation. We believe that anybody can grow food anywhere with a little creativity and guidance. It is accessible, inexpensive and possible to reconnect with nature, neighbours and cultural roots through small-scale food growing. ​ We offer free tools and resources to educate how individuals, families, teachers, schools, and communities can grow food even with little space or experience.
Learn more by visiting https://tiny-gardens.wixsite.com/mysite-1
The REAP center is dedicated to providing community learning and transformative experiences that empower individuals to take action for both local and global impact. Their campus, stretching half a mile long, embodies a playful atmosphere while fostering regenerative processes and promoting biodiversity. Through the principles of biomimicry and ecosystem support, REAP actively works towards their mission of supporting scalable, nature-based solutions to combat climate change and enhance the health and resilience of our planet’s ecosystems.
REAP achieves its goals by focusing on workforce development within a regenerative context. Starting from playful exploration and discovery, they progress to comprehensive training programs and certifications. By doing so, REAP plays a vital role in facilitating the transition of millions of people towards embracing nature-based solutions for a sustainable future.
Learn more by visiting https://www.reapcenter.org/
The Abundant Earth Foundation sponsored Chasing Change, a media project by Sierra Robinson spotlighting young change-makers around the world. Sierra Robinson grew up on a farm on Vancouver Island, B.C. When she was only 8 years old, she discovered Permaculture – a holistic approach to growing food, organizing social structures, and interacting with the world in a way that actually repairs environmental damage. Sierra has gained international attention for the inspiring message of her recent TEDx talk. Sierra is part of an ever-growing network of young change-makers with a strong passion and drive.
The Regenerative Holistic Resource Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring hope and natural capital in communities, schools, and orphanages. Their community development model addresses interconnected problems through education, healthcare, conservation, and economic development. By applying permaculture principles, they provide infrastructure, resources, and knowledge to create thriving societies. With expansion from Rusinga Island to Nairobi, Kilifi, and Mombasa, they are transforming poverty-stricken areas into places of opportunity and hope.
Learn more at https://regenerativecenter.org/
Seaworthy Collective is a Miami-based non-profit organization focused on supporting BlueTech entrepreneurs and fostering a community for ocean and climate impact innovation. Their mission is to enable access and inclusion in ocean innovation, while their vision is to create oceans of opportunity without barriers, allowing everyone to contribute to positive change for our planet. They provide support to early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs globally and actively work on building and educating a community centered around ocean and climate impact in South Florida and beyond.
Learn more by visiting https://www.seaworthycollective.com/
Sustainable Village Resources East Africa (SVR), a community-based organization founded by Caleb Odondi Omolo, works with women, youth, and the most vulnerable communities within Homabay, Migori, and Kisii counties in Kenya. SVR has deployed a range of diversified and cost-effective permaculture designs to support the local communities and increase household food production and ensure resilient designs to mitigate climate change.
The Abundant Earth Foundation sponsored the 2020 and 2021 Earth Day Film Festivals in Chico, CA, USA. The Earth Day Film Festival is a living, growing event and is itself a creative expression and offering to the planet. Festivals of years past have included both everything from panel-discussions with industry professionals, to nature walks, performance art and a vegan cooking demo. Films have screened in well-known theaters as well as desert, mountain, and water landscapes.
Learn more by visiting https://www.earthdayfilmfest.org/film-festival
The Redwood Forest Foundation’s mission is to acquire, protect, restore, and manage forestlands in the Redwood Region for the long-term benefit of local communities. Their goal is to create working community forests by sustainably managing the once great redwood forests. By reinvesting profits back into the communities served, they aim to enhance social, environmental, and economic well-being for all citizens.
Learn more by visiting https://www.rffi.org/about-rffi/
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is dedicated to realizing R. Buckminster Fuller’s vision of a sustainable world for everyone. They promote a design science revolution and facilitate paradigm shifts towards interconnectedness, abundance, and cooperation. BFI educates leaders through cross-disciplinary programs, inspires action through various events, and accelerates on-the-ground solutions through their REGENEROSITY initiative. By building a global community of thinkers and doers across art, science, design, and technology, BFI extends Fuller’s legacy and addresses present challenges.
Learn more by visiting https://www.bfi.org/
The Ethos Foundation is a grassroots charity that supports free permaculture education for refugees in East Africa. Donations go directly to local leaders running permaculture programs in 10 refugee settlements. Projects include scholarships, food security gardens, seeds and tools, youth education, sanitary pads, and creative expression opportunities. Empowering communities and promoting sustainability through permaculture principles is the foundation’s focus.
Learn more by visiting https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ethos-foundation/
The Greening Jaisalmer project, initiated by Khameesh Khan, is focused on promoting sustainability and organic farming in the Thar desert of India. After gaining knowledge and experience in permaculture design through international travels, Khameesh returned to his family’s land to establish a model farm within the principles of permaculture. The project aims to provide an example for local farmers, educate future generations, and improve living conditions through healthy nourishment. By combining permaculture with traditional farming practices, the project intends to create a positive impact on the environment, health, and community, while also reviving forgotten traditional techniques. The project welcomes support through crowdfunding, sharing their campaign, volunteering, or planting trees to contribute to the cause of saving Mother Earth.
Brandi Mack, sponsored by the Abundant Earth Foundation, traveled from California to Zambia to teach permaculture and holistic health to women and girls. She conducted workshops, installed an herb spiral at the IWAWA orphanage, developed a food forest for the village, and provided training on social enterprise and urban agriculture. Brandi also discussed the advantages of applying permaculture principles with the Minister of Sustainability. She intends to return to Zambia to continue empowering women and children and expand their permaculture expertise.
Learn more about The Butterfly Movement by visiting https://www.thebutterflymovement.com/
The first-ever East Africa Permaculture Convergence (organized by Sector 39) was sponsored by the Abundant Earth Foundation. We provided scholarships for 15 people to attend and documented the experience.
Watch our video to hear some of the insights from the participants.
The Blueprint Alliance (BPA) is a coalition dedicated to creating a regenerative blueprint for human settlements, focusing on designing refugee camps. Their aim is to develop a manual outlining principles and best practices in permaculture, natural building, wastewater treatment, and regenerative energies for self-sufficient and sustainable living. The BPA is composed of specialists in refugee aid, post-disaster interventions, and international development, integrating their knowledge into a holistic framework for regenerative settlements. The Grace Foundation, in cooperation with the SLUSH Fund for sustainability, provided seed funding to support the BPA’s planning meetings and the development of the Blueprint200 project. Blueprint200 involves creating scalable test sites for 200 people as proof of concept and educational centers. Tamera Healing Biotope in Portugal serves as the initial location. The Abundant Earth Foundation sponsored permaculture training for Marcus Dittrich (ecologist at Tamera Healing Biotope) with Chris Evans, a certified permaculture practitioner from the UK with more than 30 years of experience.
The Camp Fire Restoration Project is an initiative that emerged in response to the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, CA in 2018, which caused significant damage to communities and ecosystems. The project is focused on promoting healing and community resilience through ecological restoration. The project emphasizes collaborative community action. They organize multi-day restoration camps and establish partnerships with like-hearted groups. They also distribute seeds throughout the region and support initiatives like Paradise Community Compost, tree plantings and giveaways, resources for watershed protection, and seed swaps. The Abundant Earth Foundation helped kick start the Camp Fire Restoration Project by providing an initial donation and took the project under fiscal sponsorship. This support helped the project begin its crowdfunding campaign, allowing them to secure additional funding and resources to further their restoration efforts.
Learn more by visiting https://www.campfirerestorationproject.org
Recognizing the importance of face-to-face networking and information sharing, every other year a different country hosts a European Permaculture Convergence. In the middle of August in 2018, Ireland was the host of the event. From honoring the elders and youth of permaculture to an in-depth look at the potential future of permaculture as a global movement, the event offered practical hands-on and strategic planning workshops. Through a program of offering a number of 2-for-1 tickets and scholarships, Abundant Earth Foundation helped provide access for a more inclusive and diverse array of participants.
SheGenerative, the first women’s permaculture design course in Kenya, is addressing the gender gap in agriculture. Despite women playing a significant role in the agricultural sector, there are few female permaculturists. Carolyne Olang, from Rural Oasis CBO, is the host of this initiative, which aims to hold an annual women’s permaculture design course and establish kitchen gardens in participants’ households. Thanks to support from the Abundant Earth Foundation, SheGenerative has successfully conducted six workshops, training 22 women in permaculture and the establishment of food forests.
Towards Green Environment is a youth-led non-profit organization in Kenya that focuses on promoting environmental conservation through training, empowerment, and awareness campaigns about climate change. Led by co-founder Jack Mazingira, they are dedicated to addressing the devastating impacts of climate change in Osodo Village, where floods have caused hunger, homelessness, broken economies, and a malaria epidemic. Their mission is to meet the basic human needs of the community and construct infrastructure outside the flood zone, including a school, a women’s center, and a permaculture community garden. They are raising funds in collaboration with the Abundant Earth Foundation to provide necessities and create a sustainable permaculture paradise for the community.
One More Salary is a non-profit organization founded in Sweden in 2017 and Tanzania in 2019. Their main mission is to eradicate poverty through sustainable income generation. They are implementing the Syntropic Agroforestry for Regeneration Communities (SARC) project in Lalambe village and Kitagata village in East Africa, Tanzania, a project led by Jackson Buzingo. The project aims to train smallholder farmers in Syntropic agroforestry, with goals of creating awareness about the importance of tree planting, restoring ecosystems, and establishing tree nurseries. The funding provided by the Abundant Earth Foundation has helped in training farmers, purchasing equipment and supplies, and supporting the tree nursery. The project has social, ecological, and economic benefits, such as knowledge sharing among farmers, soil health restoration, biodiversity enhancement, and income generation through tree care.
Imagine Afrika is a nonprofit organization founded by Chimwemwe Limani in 2016. Their mission is to combat hunger driven by climate change and rising fertilizer prices in Southern Malawi by 2040. With funding received in 2020, they are scaling up the use of Green Manure Cover Crops (gm/ccs) in multiple districts. Their goals include planting 200,000 hectares of gliricidia and establishing 20,000 kilometers of acacia galpin fences on smallholder farmers’ lands by 2030. The use of Green Manure Cover Crops improves soil fertility, water infiltration, water-holding capacity, and reduces soil erosion. Imagine Afrika trains lead farmers who act as demonstration plots, educating follower farmers both in classrooms and on the field.
Syntropic & Permaculture Solutions, led by Roland Van Reenen, aims to restore the Earth’s abundance through regenerative practices. Focusing on Syntropic Agroforestry, the organization promotes reforestation and economically viable tree planting for farmers. This course in Ethiopia involves introducing syntropic agroforestry in Addis Ababa and Lalibela, aiming to train 5,000 individuals in this technique by early 2024. The initiative offers social, ecological, and economic benefits, including high yields, improved soil health, and water conservation.
Sakina Kiriba is working in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya to promote and advance the adoption of permaculture practices. Her goal is to create a more sustainable future by teaching individuals, families, communities, and organizations about permaculture. The project involves planting trees, mobilizing community gardens, implementing permaculture in a school, and raising awareness among youth in the camp. The funding provided by AEF has been instrumental in implementing the project and empowering the community to achieve food security. The project has seen outcomes such as the establishment of gardens, training of youth leaders, and the involvement of women and youth. Despite challenges, including the lack of water, community participation and volunteer support have been significant.
Ulemu.com is an organization working on Chisi Island in Malawi with the mission to develop low-cost, community-owned, commercially sustainable solutions that provide basic healthcare, quality education, and good nutrition for children. The project aims to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by establishing school meals programs, providing healthcare subsidies, and improving the quality of education. Abundant Earth Foundation (AEF) has provided funding to support teaching assistants for the first-grade class, enhancing the children’s education. The project has seen social, ecological, and economic benefits, with measurable outcomes including high percentages of women and youth involvement. Challenges include the need for specialized training, but community participation and volunteers have been instrumental in the project’s progress. AEF’s funding is being used for teaching assistants’ salaries, training, and food purchases for school meals.
Formidable Vegetable is a band originated in 2012 by Charlie Mgee, an ecological edutainer from Western Australia. Their mission is to inspire local action for global issues through music. They have toured globally, delivering messages of community resilience and ecological restoration. The band embraces sustainability and regenerative living, using waste vegetable oil to power their transportation and promoting sustainable practices. Their songs are inspired by permaculture principles and traditional knowledge systems, aiming to restore balance between humans and nature. Formidable Vegetable has performed at renowned festivals and received recognition from the United Nations. Abundant Earth Foundation helped support the creation of their music.
OTEPIC Kenya Peace Project, led by Philip Munyasia, partnered with the Abundant Earth Foundation (AEF) for their tree planting initiative in Kitale, Kenya. The project aimed to improve biodiversity, reforestation, and promote peace through collaborative efforts. The project successfully planted 5,000 trees, established six tree nurseries, conducted six workshops, and trained ten community teachers, benefiting the environment and fostering a mutual working relationship among community members. Additionally, AEF supported four staff members to participate in a conference in Uganda, and funds were allocated for training, buying seedlings, and supporting Tabasamu Children’s Home.
Odienya Permaculture C.B.O, led by George Ouma, aims to train the community in permaculture and organic farming techniques, with a focus on empowering women, youth, refugees, orphans, and vulnerable children in Rongo, Migori County, Kenya. Their goal is to train 100 youth in permaculture design techniques by the end of 2024. Abundant Earth Foundation (AEF) provided funding for training logistics, accommodation, materials, and a laptop. The project has already benefited 100 beneficiaries in the community and established a nursery for 100 moringa seedlings. However, challenges remain, including a shortage of funding to complete construction and the need for more leaders within the organization.
The Rwamwanja Rural Foundation, led by Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe, aims to empower refugees in the Rwamwanja Refugees settlement to access fresh food from their own kitchen gardens. Their goals include training youths in permaculture, forming clubs in schools, planting trees, and providing music and video training. Abundant Earth Foundation (AEF) supported the foundation by providing funding for materials, teacher training, and the distribution of resources such as books and posters across East Africa. The partnership with AEF has enabled the foundation to impact the lives of refugees by improving access to organic food, providing essential knowledge to farmers, and offering resources to teachers and community members.
The Rosemary Morrow Permaculture Series, led by Scott Mann of The Permaculture Podcast, aims to share Rosemary Morrow’s voice and teachings with a global audience. Their goal is to release 48 episodes with a target of 500,000 downloads by the end of 2023. Abundant Earth Foundation (AEF) supported the project by providing funding that allowed for increased recording and archiving of content. The project’s success lies in reaching and inspiring thousands of individuals dedicated to permaculture and ecological design. The funding was allocated for backups, archiving, data management, hosting, distribution, recording, editing, post-production, and software and hardware related to production.
“The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People” is a documentary produced by The Response Network that highlights the network of mutual aid centers (Centros de Apoyo Mutuo) that emerged in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017. These centers started as a community kitchen in Caguas and expanded into a widespread movement aimed at restoring power, both electric and civic, to the people of Puerto Rico. The 30-minute micro-budget film showcases the voices of those involved in these grassroots relief efforts and explores the growing movement for popular power. Abundant Earth Foundation (AEF) supported the documentary, which was showcased at the Earth Day Film Fest.
Click here to watch the trailer.
The Regenerative Holistic Resource Center in Nairobi, Kenya focuses on empowering communities and improving the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children. They provide education on regenerative farming practices and work towards building permanent homes for orphans in Nairobi and Mombasa. With support from the Abundant Earth Foundation, the center engages in various projects, including urban farming partnerships with schools, running orphanages, organizing eco-tourism trips, implementing clean water systems, promoting reforestation through tree planting and briquette production, offering adult education classes, creating job opportunities, and teaching innovative agricultural techniques for sustainable food production.
Hero Women Rising, also known as Maman Shujaa, is a grassroots organization in the South Kivu province of eastern D.R. Congo. Their mission is to improve the lives of women and adolescent girls by using education and technology to amplify their voices and advocate for their rights. They focus on various areas such as women’s rights, rights for the disabled, Indigenous rights, community rights, and the right to a sustainable future. Their vision is to create a peaceful and prosperous eastern Congo where women have equal access to decision-making and are empowered to contribute to society based on their own aspirations. They also support the development of other community grassroots women’s organizations.
Hope Studio is a solar-powered recording studio and permaculture education center located in Kakuma Refugee Camp, built by Sumaili Nyange and his team with support from the SunRise Studios Collective (SRS) and Empowered by Light. Sumaili, a former refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, had a vision to combine his love for music with sustainable living. In April 2022, their dream became a reality as they established Hope Studio. The studio serves as a platform for Sumaili’s band, The Ambassador Crew, and also provides educational resources to the community. You can watch their music videos on the SunRise Studios Collective’s YouTube Channel.
The Studio in a Suitcase is a project developed by the SunRise Studios Collective. It involves creating a compact recording setup that fits inside a suitcase, enabling the establishment of small studios or facilitating mobile recordings. In December 2022, the collective donated their first Studio in a Suitcase to Tzutu Kan, a Mayan hip hop artist, and his band Salam Ajpu. The equipment will also be utilized by local indigenous artists in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala. The SunRise Studios Collective aims to support artistic creativity, cultural preservation, and regenerative lifestyles through a network of grassroots, community-based multimedia studios.
Reflorestar Portugal (ReflorestarPT) is an organization that aims to regenerate ecosystems and promote social impact. They approach their projects from an ecosystemic and holistic perspective, considering the complexity, species consortia, high density, and biodiversity as fundamental pillars of their actions. Their focus is not only on tree planting but on creating biomes, fostering cooperation instead of competition. ReflorestarPT integrates both the forest and human aspects, promoting human syntropy. Through their training programs, they provide tools to inspire individuals to become agents of ecosystem regeneration and foster the reconnection between humans and nature. They have also created events like the “Encontro pelas Florestas” and the “ECO Healing” program to further their mission.
The Riqi Audio Studio project, in partnership with the SunRise Studios Collective, was initiated by Wahinya Mwirikia, a local musician in Kikuyu Town, Kenya. Recognizing the lack of arts facilities and public spaces for youth in the area, Wahinya built a small recording studio within the Kikuyu Town Arts Centre. The center aims to promote art, music, cultural preservation, permaculture food production, and nature conservation. Located on a farm within the Ùndirì wetland ecosystem, the center has the potential to serve as a headquarters for the Kikuyu Town Arts Centre and facilitate collaborations between artists, musicians, botanists, and cultural historians to create, conserve, and curate community projects.
The SunRise Studios Collective aims to support artistic creativity, cultural preservation, and regenerative lifestyles through a network of grassroots, community-based multimedia studios.
Vimi Media Lab, located in the Village of Segredo Do Artesao in the Brazilian Amazon, is a project initiated by the SunRise Studios Collective. The lab and recording studio aim to empower the Huni Kuin people, an indigenous community living in the Amazon Rainforest. It provides a platform for indigenous youth to learn traditional songs, prayers, and preserve ancestral knowledge through audio and video recordings. The studio will offer insights into Huni Kuin ceremonies, celebrations, and their unique way of life in harmony with nature. Additionally, it will serve as a community space, theater, and art marketplace for local women. The construction of the studio combines indigenous and modern sustainable building techniques, aligning with the collective’s mission of supporting artistic creativity, cultural preservation, and regenerative lifestyles through grassroots multimedia studios.
Contour Lines is a nonprofit organization focused on soil conservation. Their vision is to empower rural communities with the knowledge and resources to manage their lands in a sustainable and productive manner, specifically through agroforestry practices. They provide fruit trees, tools, and training to participant communities, while also hiring local technicians to organize and supervise the projects. By adopting soil conservation practices and transitioning to regenerative agroforestry, these communities prevent soil erosion, improve biodiversity, sequester carbon, enhance water infiltration, and create habitats. Additionally, the initiative brings economic benefits such as food security, income from harvests and value-adding, and the promotion of local economies. Contour Lines also operates a processing facility, restaurant/café, and educational center in Antigua.
Permayouth is a vibrant and proactive global network of teenagers dedicated to making a positive change in their communities through permaculture. They aim to shift to a one-planet life, regenerate the planet, and achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. Through art, such as songs, poems, painting, and drawing, they celebrate the world around them and cultivate a culture of permaculture. The network started in 2019 and has expanded worldwide, including hubs in refugee settlements. Permayouth offers group mentorship led by renowned permaculture experts, fostering learning about sustainability and regeneration. Abundant Earth Foundation serves as a mentor for the young members of PermaYouth.
Kajulu Hills Eco Villages, led by Maurice Obuya, is a non-profit network of Permaculture trainers and practitioners focused on promoting self-sufficient, regenerative agriculture and conserving Indigenous agro-ecosystems in East and Central Africa. They address the loss of Indigenous Ecosystems around Lake Victoria by using natural principles and techniques to transform idle, degraded land into regenerative ecosystems. They operate an East Africa Indigenous Seed Bank, facilitating the production, conservation, regeneration, and exchange of Indigenous Seeds, Vines, Tubers, and Seedlings. Through their Food Security Training and Installation Program, they offer free training courses, onsite and online, installing self-regenerating food systems and seed banks, supporting communities for sustainable success.
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