Re: Permaculture in Africa.

["keller" <ak.and.ak@on-line.de>]

> Dear Folks,
>
> I would like to get together with a bunch of other people who want to get
involved in helping and sponsoring Permaculture somewhere in Southern
Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania.

As far as I know, there is some pc activity already in Malawi (I recall a
post about that, was it on this list?). There is also a lot of pc in
Zimbabwe. I am about to contact them. Uganda has a Permaculture Training
Centre, founded by the Australian pc designer John Hunwick. I have just sent
him a letter (the email and fax I've found on the web where defunct), so
that might take a couple of weeks.

There might be pc activities already even if a web search turns up nothing
initially. I have just found a pc association in Cameroon after several
weeks of detective work, and I guess that some searching and asking around
will turn up similar groups in some other countries as well.

I am focusing on Cameroon now for several reasons (my wife is from there, so
I have lots of contacts, the country is a biodiversity hotspot, has very
different geographical regions from wet to dry, from mountain to flat land,
also coast, both french and english are oficial languages, and it is at the
border between west and central Africa -  so seems to be a good place to
start). But keep me informed about what you are doing in southern and
eastern Africa. keeping in touch and exchanging experience seems a good
idea.
>
> The idea is to find a small village to act as a catalist for promoting the
idea into the rest of the local region. To team up with the local villagers
and through them hopefully bring about changes that will enhance their
lives, to make their lives less of a burden, particularly for the women of
these places.
>
> So anybody with ideas on this lets get communicating and see if we can
make the lives of some of our poorer bretheren a great deal better with a
litle help from their friends.

Do you have any contacts there already?

The best, I think, is to ask existing pc groups (e.g. in Zimbabwe) about how
they are doing it.

> Cheers Mike.

Andreas