permaculture

[sandra campe <zukunftswerkstatt@riseup.net>]

dear colleagues worldwide,

i would like to bring your attention to developments happening at Ghana 
Permaculture Institute with support of the german NGO "SONED".

Please get in touch with Kipper about possible contributions to this - 
and feel free to share the information widely!

Just the best,
Sandra


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Subject:        Re: [PP:650] A Circular Story of Connections
Date:   Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:14:44 +0100
From:   info@soned.de <info@soned.de>
Reply-To:       info@soned.de
To:     permaculture-partnership@googlegroups.com



Dear Allessandro,
thank you for sharing your story.

Dear Davie, Sandra, Andy,
thanks for following up with ecolise. Maybe this organisation can bring 
permaculture on the political agenda, since the EU has declared 2015 as 
the European Year for development with the motto "our world, our 
dignity, our future".

that gives me the keyword and I also want to share a story with you.

It begun at the EU-learning partnership "transition to resilience" in 
2010 when i was talking with John Croft about how to support 
Permaculture in Africa. He suggested to get in contact with Paul Yeboah 
in Ghana who has formed the Ghana Permaculture Institute (GPI).
Since I was visiting Paul first time in July 2011 I was impressed by his 
work and we agreed to work together to spread permaculture across Ghana 
and West-Africa.
It took a long time to work out the programme and to submit a good 
proposal but finally we did it in September 2014 and the EPT was all the 
way an empowering resource of inspiration and wisdom.
I really believe that this project will have a significant impact in Ghana.

Now i like to share with you the expected outcomes:
- in a 3-years programme there will be over 90 permaculture workshops in 
20 locations across Ghana,
- 4 PDCs held in neighbouring countries,
- a seminar center with accommodation facilities will be build in Ghanas 
first Eco-village in Techiman and will provide residential permaculture 
education to facilitate agents of change,
- an International sustainability conference will be held in february 
2016 in Techiman to connect different stakeholders and to start networking,
- followed by an Ecovillage Design Education course for leadership training.

The budget for the whole project is 311,221 Euros.
With the final proposal we (SONED) applied at BMZ (German ministry for 
economic cooperation and development) in September 2014 and got at the 
same time the permission to start the project at our own risc. So Pauls 
team started the project in September 2014. The approval of the BMZ 
funding of 233,416 Euros came in october. We also got 28,700 Euros from 
Heidehof foundation and 10,000 Euros from the foundation 
north-south-bridges.

Beside the 75% BMZ-funding and almost 15% co-funding (including 2% 
contribution from GPI= 6.224 € ) SONED as the applying NGO has to raise 
10% of the project budget according to BMZ regulations.
In our case it is 32,881 of which we managed so far to raise 3,600 euros 
from private donors and crowdfunding, 2000 Euros we got from the project 
support project of the German Permaculture academy, which may give 
another 2000 Euros next year. Remaining in the moment 25,281 Euros.

We have time to raise this funds until the end of the project duration 
(Aug.2017), but for proper planning we should have done it a year 
before. Otherways we have to reduce the spending, also the progamme and 
we have to refund the donors according to the (10%-15%-75%) funding 
regulations.

That means each contributed Euro is mobilizing 10 Euros spending on the 
project or the other way around: each missing Euro in the budget will 
cause 10 Euros less for the project.

Beside the fact that you can help  with your donation to get the whole 
programme running, it is also a good way to get your organisation or 
community connected with the permaculture network in Ghana (and 
Westafrica) and to appreciate in this way the amazing work of GPI. And 
in future you may send your volunteers for training to Ghana 
Permaculture Institute or use their (and also your) story of success for 
teaching your students.

So please get involved. Take part in the empowered fundraising and build 
sustainable connections to Africa (for healing some of the colonial wounds).

For updates of the project and for online donations you can look at the 
crowdfunding site:
www.betterplace.org/en/p15834

Donations as bank transfers to: SONED
IBAN: DE53430609678025306601
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
subject: Ghana project

Feel free to ask for more details.

Big hug
Kipper



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