Improving Lives through
the Permaculture Approach
Practical Permaculture Design Course
Permaculture Design Course for Rural Farmers in Ngora – Farmers LinK
1st – 14th December 2019
Ngora Northern Uganda – Farmers Link
Lead Tutors
Mugarura Charles – BEU-Permaculture Group
Kagwe James – Waste Masters
Naomi Hanna - United States of America
Lanyero Juliana – BEU- Permaculture Group
Lanyero Juliana – BEU- Permaculture Group
Happy Martin - East Africa Impact Centre
Organised and Supporting Team
Dolen Ffermio wales
Dolen Ffermio wales
Dolen Ffermio – December 2018 Class
Institutions: Broadfield Enterprises
Uganda – Permaculture Group
Tropical Permaculture Education
Institute of Africa.
Venue Farmers Link Farm
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:
Permaculture Education Institute of Australia.
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 to integrate 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 December Course .
The PDC itself will be aimed at up to 30 participants. The 35 participants will be divided into 2 home groups each facilitated by 2 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.
.
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 Teacher:
Charles Mugarura,
Charles is the Founder, lead Permaculture Tropical designer and
tutor at BEU (Broadfield Enterprises Uganda) - Permaculture Group. 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 trainings and conducted impactful subject centred
Permaculture solutions. He has multiple professional trainings 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 organised the first East African Convergence 28th to
29, May 2018, with 70 participants at the field site in Sabina in Partnership
with Sector 39. He is currently pushing the 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. Charles is also holding Computer Science Diploma in Agri- Business
from Makerere University Business School, that 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 analysing 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 and COP24 at
United Nations. Charles received an Award of Youth Climate change adaptation
using Permaculture in September 22nd 2016 from Global Citizen, NYC. NUCAFE 5th
Winner Prize on Coffee growing- In dry lands June 2016.- NUCAFE. Inaddtion to the 2019 EE30U30 Award www.naaee.org North American Association for Environmental Education. Gorilla
Tracking and Conservation activist 2012. Experienced in joint teamwork
development, capacity building for local movements and fundraising.
What you should carry?
1.You need to carry your own
and a receipt copy of your registration form and Bath and
face towel.
2.
• Sleeping
bag (if you have one)
3.
• Light
shirts and trousers that can cover you from the sun in the day.
4.
• Comfortable
shoes, sandals, slippers
5.
• Good
shoes for outdoor practicals
6.
• A
jumper or cardigan for chilly evenings (it does get cold!!)
7.
• Warm
covering sleeping clothes and socks for evenings
8.
• Rain
jacket (rainy season now)
9.
• Gumboots/
wellingtons (optional but needed during rainy season –
10. • Sun cream - minimum factor 30 recommended
10. • Sun cream - minimum factor 30 recommended
11.
• Sunglasses
12.
• Hat
13.
• Torch/
Flashlight - a wind-up one is a good idea
14.
• Mosquito
repellent + Malaria tablets + Anti Malariabiotics (please consult your doctor)
15.
• Personal
medicine
16.
• Stationery;
writing pens & pencils and a note pad
17.
• Extra
pocket money
Fees: 500 USD, for all training, accommodation, meals and
resources for 2 weeks.
Payment can be made on receiving an invoice after sending a short
email booking a slot (charles@broadfieldpermaculture.org) and filling out the
application form.
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://forms.gle/aHAiLJYeygw5VVnL7
How can you Partner or contribute?
Partner, donate or sponsor a community teacher, or rural farmer and
to our permaculture Courses.
Our Scholarship Fund Program :
please kenn@broadfieldpermaculture.org
Our Scholarship Fund Program :
please kenn@broadfieldpermaculture.org
charles@broadfieldpermaculture.org
Link to our Scholarships form : https://forms.gle/iEQuWphLALc578uXA
Scholarships are offered to those under 27 of age , very active in environmental protection and agriculture for community development.
Link to our Scholarships form : https://forms.gle/iEQuWphLALc578uXA
Scholarships are offered to those under 27 of age , very active in environmental protection and agriculture for community development.
Account Details to make your payments:
Please note that a 50% deposit is required to secure your places,
thereafter full payments must be made by Nov 14th. Once transfers are made,
please email us your confirmation codes to verify.
BEU- Permaculture Group bank details:
Broadfield Enterprises Uganda
swift code;
swift code;
ABCLKENA
Bank Name : AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION
Beneficiary Name: BROADFIELD ENTERPRISES UGANDA
Account number : 2000000920
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
Tropical
Permaculture education Institute of Africa
Odongo Roykeane
Charles Mugarura
Mobile: +256703392766
mugaruracharles916@gmail.com
In Collaboration with:
Our supporting partners
Krieskinderstiftung
Permaculture Education Institute
German Permaculture Institute
Resilient Africa Network
World Permaculture Association, Italy
Tropical Permaculture Education Institute of Africa
