Permaculture Design Certificate Course

4th Annual AIDS Orphans Serengeti Safari

Abundant Life Summit

Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is
the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their
food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs
in a sustainable way. It is also the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems. (from the Permaculture Research Institute, Australia, www.permaculture.org.au).

This design certificate course will be presented by Geoff and Nadia Lawton, two of the world's foremost permaculture instructors. It will be held at Afrilux Hotel, a clean, safe and simple establishment in Musoma, a quiet town located on the shores of Lake Victoria. A delicious breakfast and lunch will be served at the hotel for class participants. At least once each week, course participants will travel 45 minutes by boat to Kinesi Village to explore how permaculture principles can be applied to improve the quality of life in a poor, rural East African village.

Tanzania is politically stable and its people generally warm and welcoming. Of course, travel in rural Africa entails health risks, the most prevalent in the Musoma area being malaria and dysentery. Participants take full responsibility for all health and related risks. Global Resource Alliance can provide information about natural protocols for malaria upon request. Area doctors are very good at dealing with local health issues but hospital conditions are primitive. Travel insurance with medical benefits is required for all course participants.

The course will be taught in English and translated into Swahili (the native language of Tanzania). Some of the local participants will be fluent in English but others will need translation to be able to follow the class. This will be a great opportunity for people interested in getting a taste of working in a developing country without a long-term commitment.

Course cost: For non-residents, tuition, course materials, lodging (double occupancy) and meals (breakfast and lunch) is US$ 950. For residents of Tanzania, the cost is US$ 95 (tuition, course materials and lunches only).

To register for the course, please e-mail us at info@globalresourcealliance.org.

After completion of the course, a short 3 day 2 night safari to nearby Serengeti National Park will be available to course participants for around $500 each.

Children in Kinesi village

Aerial view of Kinesi