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The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Permaculture in Refugee Camps

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In this new article, recently published in the Permaculture Magazine #100, Rosemary Morrows explains about her latest experience teaching in refugee camps, in several parts of the world. As she opens the article: “The Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) project derives from a solid conviction that permaculture provides humane, integrated solutions to the degraded and difficult … Read more

PDC in Kurdistan report

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This PDC was run in the winter of 2017 in the Gawilan refugee camp, in nothern Iraq, near the city of Irbil, after this was liberated from the ISIS occupation. The course was facilitated by Rowe Morrow and Paula Paanaen.

By definition, any work in refugee camps is confusing. People don’t want to be there, they want to be home. Camp managers and NGOs are responsible for the health and feeding of residents and are little skilled in building communities. The sense is often transient despite the fact that the average length of time spent in a camp is 12 years and only 1% or less are resettled.

So anyone working in a camp must like refugees, and must be completely flexible, while knowing exactly what is valuable for the land and for the people, and what must be delivered so lives are ameliorated.

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2nd Permaculture for Refugees Design Course at Cox’s Bazar: Tangkhali, Bangladesh

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This has been the second programmed training that we run this year as Permaculture for Refugees, in an area were refugees presence is particularly delicate due to the large number of Rohingya people displaced from bordering Myanmar. The course was run by Rosemary Morrow, Ruth Harvey and Jed Walker and funded by Quakers Service Australia … Read more

1st Permaculture For Refugees Design Course

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Bangladesh January 26-February 10, 2019 Funding: Quaker Service Australia   Background Bangladesh is hosting 770,000 refugees from Myanmar who were expelled by their government and army. They have been living in southern Bangladesh around the Cox’s Bazar area for the last 18 months. The impacts on the local people have been varied. At first there … Read more

Our Year 2018

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P4R has continued to work with refugees in different situations, consolidating our research and reaching out to people working with refugees and adding to our knowledge of where permaculture is engaged and where it might engage in the future. (Report 2016-2017 see Appendices). During the year the forced global migration situation was exacerbated when nearly … Read more