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A Sector 39 Permaculture Academy Site Butaleja district is a low-lying area to the south of the eastern city of Mbale. It is a fertile area, with a rapidly growing population. There has been recent investment in large scale rice growing in the area, but otherwise it is typified by very small family plots growing…
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The preparation of the site was cut short in March 2020 when Paul Odiwour Ogola and his training and development team from Homa Bay in Kenya had to return home when the COVID-19 quarantine was announced. They had carried out 9 intense days of ground preparation, recent reports and photographs show initial stages to have…
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Gallery Update May 2020
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A Sector 39 Permaculture Academy site The Happy Home Centre was founded and run by a Korean charity who would like to devolve the management of the centre and the grounds to the local community. The centre was set up to run similar programmes so they have an established and experienced volunteer team in place….
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Update: Calls for application are now closed Expressions of interest are invited from organisations or institutions whose aim is to support marginalised indigenous groups from rural areas looking to self-organise in order to leverage greater sovereignty and control over their lives, and livelihood opportunities. Examples include, but are not limited to, the means of exerting…
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Helping children and young people understand and value their communities : developing an international ‘place -based learning’ collaborative. “It’s not often an event makes your soul think” Symposium evaluation form Plockton, a small lochside village in the North West Highlands of Scotland was the venue for a small symposium in November 2013, bringing together educators…
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During his life, Bernard Conyers saw a great lack of opportunity for less advantaged people to publish or disseminate their original work and on his death his daughter donated a sum of money to the Arkleton Trust to create a fund specifically to encourage the dissemination of information, findings or new ideas related to rural…
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This fund was established, with contributions from family, friends and colleagues, in memory of the late David Moore. With proceeds from the fund’s investments, an award is made to a young person engaged in the study of rural development and social change in Europe and/or the Third World. The award is intended to enable the…
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Following our 2017 Seminar Seminar, our partners, Waste Aid, released a new Toolkit for waste management: PRESS RELEASE www.wasteaid.org.uk/toolkit On Tuesday 17 October, waste management charity WasteAid UK launched its toolkit for community-led waste management, Making Waste Work. Funded by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, the toolkit has been designed to inform, prepare and…
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Introducing the seminar participants and the awards funded. One of the early awards was a study trip between Jatan Sansthan (Jatan) and the Southern Region Offices of the Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE). Jatan is a grassroots Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Jatan work with the rural populations of the…
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