Trudy 
by Ruth Harvey Featured image: Camp 6, Ukhiya, Bangladesh Over the past five years, I have become acquainted with the harsh reality of refugee camps and settlements, through visiting and working in various facilities in Nauru, Greece, Italy and Bangladesh. I was dismayed to see how powerless, depressed and aimless residents of the … Read more
Facing the challenges of COVID-19 Materials workshop, 23-29 October 2020 In March 2020 the face-to-face teaching which P4R had been doing with refugees in camps came to an abrupt stop and has not been able to be resumed. Members of the P4R team in the Asia-West Pacific region decided to investigate the needs of host … Read more
Last fall P4R participated in the conference ‘Meet, Share, Inspire: International Conference of Good Practices on Refugee Protection,’ co-organized by Support to Life (STL), Directorate General of Migration Management (DGMM) and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH), with support of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations. Marguerite Kahrl presented the P4R project as a lecturer and panelist for the … Read more
P4R member Marguerite Kahrl, recently participated in this training geared towards permaculture teachers who want to teach in refugee situations. This course was funded through an Erasmus+ EU grant and was run at the Gorno Draglishte Village in Bulgaria, in November 2019. Many people from all over Europe attended this training. The Teaching Permaculture for … Read more
To test our theory that permaculture will be an effective tool towards working together with refugees towards places of hope and transformation, this year we held a series of six Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) courses for refugees and camp managers in Bangladesh, Turkey, Greece and courses for Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) in the Philippines. These … Read more
In this brief report Rowe Morrow reviews the year 2019 just gone by, in the light of the activities in which we got involved. It has been a quite intense year for us at P4R, as you will read through. Hope you find it inspiring. Read on (pdf)…
In this new report, Rosemary Morrow tells how the last PDC course run as Permaculture For Refugees went. The course was run between June and July 2019, at the Alumni house, USCI, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We consider it our 6th PDC in our pilot project, even though it was sponsored by different organizations and was … Read more
This is the report narrating how our 5th PDC at the Lavrios refugees camp went. Lavrios camp is a relatively nice place, compared to other, more packed, refugee camps. It’s premises belong to the Greek ministry of Agriculture and used to be a holidays resort for the families of theirs employees. It has wood cabins … Read more
The last two PDC courses of this series, run in spring 2019, were in Greece on the island of Lesbos. It was held at the premises of the One Happy Family NGO, and sponsored by Low Tech Lab. From the beginning, Low Tech Lab (LTL) was enthusiastic about hosting the course. They had prepared their … Read more
Our third experience in teaching in refugees camps was run in Turkey, at a camp with women refugees. The course was co-taught by Rosemary Morrow, Francesca Simonetti and Marguerite Kahrl. We were hosted by Imece village. It sits on the eastern slope of a north-south valley where the wind blows 370 days a year and … Read more