The P4R team work remotely, ensuring the smooth running of the P4R virtual office and projects, in order to support the regional networks and our organisation’s mission.
P4R Office Team
The main functions of the P4R remote office (or operations circle) are coordination, administration, finance, networking, and communications. We also work on small scale projects, engage and work with volunteers and support a wider group of representatives from our regional network.
Trudy Juriansz, P4R Council Secretary & administrator
Trudy is passionate about envisioning and working towards a world where people are empowered and healed by self-determination and collaboration in environmental and social justice. She did her first PDC in 2010 in Thailand and has been designing and managing various types of gardens and farms ever since. She holds a graduate degree in sustainability education and is an accredited trainer in ecovillage design and Analog Forestry. She is an experienced networker and her approach is about relationships and reciprocity, about heart and action. Trudy co-founded a democratic school in Thailand for refugees and migrants from Myanmar and managed an education centre and ecological farm in Sri Lanka that focuses on forest ecosystem restoration, using permaculture, analog forestry and ecovillage design.
P4R Council, Founders and Trainers
Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) is a global network of educators, practitioners, community leaders and networkers coming from diverse fields of work, with a common vision to disseminate permaculture knowledge widely, and to not only teach displaced people but to develop the model where those taught can teach others in camp settlements, resettlement communities and local organisations.
Rosemary Morrow (Rowe), P4R co-founder, Council Member, trainer & network member
For almost 40 years Rowe has worked extensively with farmers and villagers in Africa, Central and South East Asia and Eastern Europe, especially dedicating the last few years to refugees in camps – the people of war-torn nations such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Syria Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Kurdistan and East Timor, and to communities experiencing the serious effects of climate change like the Solomon Islands, and the effects of the GFC, like Spain, Greece and Portugal.
She founded Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) with a small group of people and conducted permaculture courses in camps in seven countries with large refugee populations to establish whether permaculture could provide a radically different model for refugee camps.
Konstantinos Tsiompanos, P4R Council President & network member
Konstantinos is a human rights barrister, a permaculture teacher, a forest school teacher and an environmental educator. He practises law in Greece, where he represents and advises asylum seekers and refugees, mainly unescorted minors and victims of SGBV. He holds a research Masters degree in Environmental Sciences with a focus on the formation of environmental identity and has wide and diverse teaching experience in Europe and the USA. After attending a PDC with refugees taught by Rosemary Morrow in Greece in 2019, Konstantinos was very inspired from what he experienced and founded Sporos Regeneration Institute, a non profit organisation active in permaculture education, refugee integration and vocational training. He has since organised and taught numerous permaculture courses for refugees.
Alfred Decker, P4R Education Consultant & network member
Alfred is an award-winning permaculture designer; the Education Coordinator of Permaculture For Refugees; a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain; a leading voice in Social Permaculture…and one of Europe’s innovative change-makers. His journey into ecological design began in 1998 when he completed his first Permaculture Design Course in California. Since then, Alfred has been involved with social movements and projects across many borders. He is the founder of the 12P Permaculture Designconsultancy, Permacultura Barcelona and the Forest Gardens project at Can Masdeu; is a co-founder of the Spanish Permaculture Academy (Academia de Permacultura Íbera); and was a member of the European Permaculture Teachers Partnership and the Permaculture Council of Europe. Alfred holds a postgraduate diploma in sustainable architecture and renewable energy (Centre for Alternative Technology). In 2024 Alfred joined the Global Council of Permaculture For Refugees. He is passionate about how permaculture can be useful to refugees and migrants, and how permaculture education can be designed for them as learners…and how they in turn can best share their valuable knowledge and experience with other.
Marguerite Kahrl, P4R co-founder, Council Member & network member
Marguerite is an artist, Permaculture designer and educator, and is cofounder of the Association Con MOI, an informal group of Italian and migrant citizens who strengthen social and human bonds through sharing food, skills, time and mutual attention. One of Con MOI’s first actions was to stimulate reciprocity and reduce waste in an urban community with the recovery and redistribution of surplus food that could no longer be sold, without any exchange of money. In her work Marguerite creates models and prototypes to stimulate cultural change.
Ruth Harvey, P4R co-founder, Council member, trainer & network member
Ruth is a teacher, horticulturist, permaculturalist, artist and writer. Her active concern for refugees began in 2016 in Greece, where she co-founded a school in a refugee camp, teaching English to refugee children through the experience of making and growing; and later ran permaculture workshops and weekly cinema in refugee housing in Italy.
A founding member of Permaculture for Refugees (P4R), she has seen the profound shift and reorientation permaculture has brought to refugees in Bangladesh and Greece through building community and food security. She continues to contribute to and support P4R’s work.