International Permaculture Design Course for Rural Farmers, Climate Adaptation Agencies, social Investors and Teachers in Rural Schools Venue: sabina , Uganda -East Africa
Improving Lives through the Permaculture Approach
Practical Permaculture Design Course
Permaculture Design Course for Rural Farmers, Climate Adaptation Agencies, social Investors and Teachers in Rural Schools
Venue: sabina , uganda
Climate change adaptation for cashew growing, food abundance, ecological restoration within accessible spaces for education and survival using permaculture
Lead Tutors
Mugarura Charles – BEU-Permaculture Group
Lawrence Emmaddu –BEU-Permaculture Group
John Bosco Baziwane – BEU-Permaculture Group
Elias Ngobi – BEU-Permaculture Group
Partner Institutions:
Dolen Ffermio
Togo Cashews Social enterprise
Tropical Permaculture Education Institution of Africa
Broadfield Enterprises Uganda – Permaculture Group
www.broadfieldpermaculture.org
Tropical Permaculture Education Institute of Africa.
Venue: sabina, UGANDA
Why should participants join a PDC?
The 2 weeks Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is the foundational Permaculture course originally developed by permaculture founder Bill Mollison. PDCs are offered worldwide and are the prerequisite for the Permaculture Design Diploma in many countries. Nevertheless, the PDC in its own is a good basis to start adding some Permaculture thinking into your own personal work and projects.
Permaculture offers many simple and practical solutions that can deliver locally applied answers to global challenges. Permaculture’s prime goal is to create future viability and enable people to take their lives into their own hands. Permaculture is at the center of climate change adaptation and establishing the most natural and community based approaches on sustainability.
International PDC Expert Monitoring Partners and Accreditation:
Tropical Permaculture Education Institute of Africa.
Who should participate in this course?
This course will be specifically targeted to people who are working with schools or communities, as well as individuals with main priority to rural farmers, interested in integrating Permaculture thinking into their own projects and work. Participants will include sponsored school teachers, community workers, farmers, NGO staff members, as well as individuals looking to gain a personal transformation. The participants will deepen their knowledge about the history, ethics, philosophy and goals of Permaculture.
The systemic approach of the Permaculture design process extends beyond the field of home and garden, and also involves the community and economic aspects. Therefore, the participants study the principles and the steps of the Permaculture design process and explore the application in the fields of garden, agriculture and self-sufficiency, as well as architecture, construction, infrastructure and questions of work and employment. The theoretical input will be complemented by many practical applications.
What will participants learn in this PDC?
The aim of the course is to deliver the broad field of Permaculture through the internationally recognized 2weeks-hour design course curriculum according to Bill Mollison and to provide a solid foundation for further endeavors using Permaculture.
During the course, we will focus on the following topics:
- Permaculture serving the Rural perspective.
- Ethical foundations of Permaculture
- Permaculture principles and methods
- Observation and perception
- Design exercises and presentations
- Ecosystems, system theory and complexity
- Soils, trees, water, climate
- Permaculture in the tropics
- Urban Permaculture and indigenous landscape design
- Social Permaculture
- Natural patterns
- Terrain modeling
- Self-sufficiency
- Economy and community
Design exercises as well as the intensive study of concrete projects in individual or group work and student presentations will put the theory into practice. Thus, the theory acquired in the course is directly applied by practical transformations on the existing challenges into solutions.
We look into the future and believe that Permaculture remains a key solution that we need to get to all change makers in the community, and are excited for the upcoming PDC on December 10th to 23rd, 2018. Sabina remains the ground to take the challenge with her diverse long visionary Permaculture works since 2008 to date that showed significant impact on the land and its community. End your year by being part of the promising journey of making a safe planet with reliable skills through permaculture.
Structure of August 17- 27th 2022 , UGANDA
The PDC itself will be aimed at up to 35 participants. The 35 participants will be divided into 2 home groups each facilitated by 3 facilitators. The Following is the curriculum that all participants will go through:
1: Rural to Global -Permaculture Perspective and Challenges.
Permaculture in Uganda, Africa and across the world is dynamic topic with varying capacity of different regions to implement in different approaches. Permaculture has much to offer for both the rich and the poor in terms of resources, in addition to learning environment of academia. The challenge is limited capacity and creativity to practice what permaculture offers practically because of varying factors.
2: Permaculture landscapes Design
Develop a complete ecosystem design, food forests, garden practical sessions, plant nurseries, propagation, land development strategies. This group will help maintain plants in the plant nursery, led on the planting practical sessions and help develop a maintenance plan for the school gardens.
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3: Renewable Resources for rural communities.
Biogas and methane, wood char and wood gas, coppice establishment and management. This group will help maintain the on-site systems for methane production and wood gas, collating their experiences as a teaching resource for the school and other participants.
4: Permaculture for Rural Uganda school’s curriculum
Permaculture is a powerful educational tool, how can we use it in schools to change campus culture, reduce waste, water run-off and covert nutrients in to healthy soil. This group will be considering how to bring permaculture much more into schools, the curriculum and the school campus culture. We have links to the Ministry for Education in Uganda as well as several key regional schools, our aim is to capitalize on these. Understanding methodologies of scalability at the centre of participatory approach.
5: Rural communities Defining Permaculture in Business Sense in Building Sustainable Settlements
Saving the planet, reducing emissions and building fertile soils is one thing, but can we create new enterprise and livelihood using permaculture design? This group will be looking at permaculture as a business model, we will be incorporating some business skills, planning and reporting into this module, pointing participants towards avenues for creating new jobs and businesses that capitalize on permaculture structures.
Lead Supersvisor and Tutor : Charles Mugarura,
Wards - EE30Under 30 Award winner 2019 – North American Association for Environment Education -USA - Global Citizen Award 2016 – Permaculture Curriculum Philosophy Developer for Tropics - Global Citizen Ambassador in Uganda for Climate change, Human Food Rights, Environment and Permaculture, since 2016 - Advocate for Youth Participation in Sustainable Community Development, Awareness raising for SDGs in Uganda
Charles is the Founder, lead Permaculture Tropical designer and tutor at BEU (Broadfield Enterprises Uganda) - Permaculture Group and Permaculture and Regenerative Practices on Production and Research, lead Western Africa and Africa, Togo Cashews Social Enterprises.
He is a qualified Permaculture implementer and teacher, my journey began in 2008 with Permaculture Across Borders under Dan Palmer and Rosemary Morrow. I have taught on 5 PDCs and 30 short training sessions and conducted impactful subject centered Permaculture solutions. He has multiple professional training in leadership and innovation modeling and received an award of Youth Climate change Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute of Australia, under Rosemary Morrow and Dan Palmer. Charles hosted and organized the first East African Convergence 28th to 29, May 2018, with 70 participants in Uganda .
He successfully worked on Permaculture curriculum integration into the Ugandan national education with support from State Minister of education in Primary schools, Hon.Rosemary Seninde and Hon. Mathias Kasamba. which they realized in 2020,
Charles is also holding a Computer Science Diploma in Agri- Business from Makerere University Business School, which has motivated him to innovate for Permaculture-Tech since 2015 ( PermApp- Project - Permaculture on Mobile ). This gave birth to the PermApp previously in brand of Kuuma, Professional Course in Business Behaviour at Leuphana University Germany. I have coordinated projects in Rwanda between 2013, in Kenya in 2015 and 2016. Charles also worked as WeFarm Uganda - Trainer and User acquisition, the strategy involved data analyzing on Farmer’s challenges and solutions. He facilitated two Permaculture workshops in Bonn, Germany at the COY 13 and delivered the Africa Youth climate change position paper, at the COP23 at the United Nations. Charles received an Award of Youth Climate change adaptation using Permaculture on September 22nd 2016 from Global Citizen, NYC. NUCAFE 5th Winner Prize on Coffee growing- In dry lands June 2016.- NUCAFE. Gorilla Tracking and Conservation activist 2012. Experienced in joint teamwork development, capacity building for local movements and fundraising.
He has fostered new Trainers, emerging Young leaders in Permaculture , Lawrence Emmaddu , Elias Ngobi, and many others. EE30Under 30 Award winner 2019 – North American Association for Environment Education -USA. Global Citizen Award 2016 – Permaculture Curriculum Philosophy Developer for Tropics, Global Citizen Ambassador in Uganda for Climate change, Human Food Rights, Environment and Permaculture, since
2016. Advocate for Youth Participation in Sustainable Community Development, Awareness raising for SDGs in Uganda
What should you carry?
You need to carry your own and a receipt copy of your registration form and Bath and face towel.
• Sleeping bag (if you have one)
• Light shirts and trousers that can cover you from the sun in the day.
• Comfortable shoes, sandals, slippers
• Good shoes for outdoor practicals
• A jumper or cardigan for chilly evenings (it does get cold!!)
• Warm covering sleeping clothes and socks for evenings
• Rain jacket (rainy season now)
• Gumboots/ wellingtons (optional but needed during rainy season – March and October)
• Sun cream - minimum factor 30 recommended
• Sunglasses
• Hat
• Torch/ Flashlight - a wind-up one is a good idea
• Mosquito repellent + Malaria tablets + Anti Malariabiotics (please consult your doctor)
• Personal medicine
• Stationery; writing pens & pencils and a note pad
• Extra pocket money
How to Book a slot?
Book in advance to avoid disappointments since there is a set limit of the number of participants. Apply by emailing to charles@broadfiledpermaculture.org
Fill the application form Please here: https://goo.gl/forms/YTPzfCi7JFotpAms1
How can you Partner or contribute?
Partner, donate or sponsor a community teacher, or rural farmer and to our permaculture Courses please info@broadfieldpermaculture.org
charles@broadfieldpermaculture.org
Account Details to make your payments: 70% to book your slot.
14 days , Full Board , Accommodation , Meals, Materials and Certified Certificate : 700 USD
Please note that a 50% deposit is required to secure your places, thereafter full payments must be made by June 25th . Once transfers are made, please email us your confirmation codes to verify.
BEU- Permaculture Group bank details: Broadfield Enterprises Uganda
swift code;
ABCLKENA
Bank Name : AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION
Beneficiary Name: BROADFIELD ENTERPRISES UGANDA
Account number : 2000000920
Address :
BEU- Permaculture Group
Permaculture -Innovations Project - Inside RANlab
Upper Kololo Terrace plot 28 House 38
P. o . Box Kampala - Uganda -East Africa
Organizers:
Broadfield Enterprises Uganda ltd - Permaculture Group
www.broadfieldpermaculture.org
Under the;
Tropical Permaculture education Institute of Africa , the official Permaculture Education Institution of BEU.
Charles Mugarura
Mobile: +256703392766
mugaruracharles916@gmail.com
OTHER supporting partners
Resilient Africa Network
World Permaculture Association, Italy
Tropical Permaculture Education Institute of Africa
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