The project ‘Low-tech with Refugees’ aims to improve the resilience and autonomy of exiled people, whilst promoting the sustainable development of the local area, through the diffusion of low-tech skills and systems. Since 2018, when Marjolaine Bert started the project in Lesvos, Greece, Low-tech with Refugees has already impacted more than 8,000 people, including trainees … Read more
Please note: names or people, organisations and networks have been omitted on purpose to ensure the safety of all those involved. One of the most important things we can do during times of crisis and upheaval, is to actively collaborate and work on finding solutions that are small and feasible. This is what has happened … Read more
Ethos Foundation and Permaculture Education Institute have supported over 1500 young people this year to receive free localised permaculture education in refugee camps in East Africa, distributed thousands of tools and millions of seeds, supplied hundreds of girls with handmade washable hand-made sanitary pad kits, activated ‘barefoot’ permaculture extension officers, supported the development of multiple community permaculture education … Read more
With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) connections with Afghanistan became a vital lifeline for our friends and colleagues there – peaceworkers, informal translators, and female academics – all of whom have gone into hiding or escaped to Pakistan. Some of us in the P4R network have joined communications … Read more
New P4R Booklet by Rosemary Morrow with Ruth Harvey “Teaching Permaculture to Refugees in Camps“ It is with pleasure that we, Permaculture For Refugees (P4R), bring you the latest booklet in our series on teaching permaculture in refugee situations. It is based on our first-hand experience of trialing permaculture courses in camps and settlements in 2019/20. … Read more
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