Donations

Our pilot programs in Kenya and Uganda are starting to demonstrate real impact, with the farmers seeing improved food security and incomes as they put their 3-month training in permaculture design into practice, create their model farms, and build collaborative networks with other farmers in their communities.
The contributions you make now will help us complete this essential work, and start building our capacity to work with new communities of farmers who can benefit from this work.
permEzone is a project of Empowerment WORKS, a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
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WHY CONTRIBUTE?

We provide training and support for impoverished rural communities to learn how to help themselves.
Your contribution will:
  • Help hundreds of families feed themselves with nutritious food
  • Help them increase their income from diverse crops, and reduce their farm costs
  • Help us support them as they work together to find shared solutions to common problems
  • Help improve the local environment and take action to reverse climate change
Please make a donation towards the costs of delivering the Phase 2 program in Uganda: supporting the trained farmers as they put into practice what they have learned and build community around regenerative farming practices, and evaluating the impact of the service.
We started this pilot program in June 2017, and have made a great start turning theory into practice. Our approach of working with selected training centers in East Africa, where they already work with local farming communities, means that we can make the most of their experience in training and support that is adapted to the needs of local conditions and cultures.
The funds we've raised so far cover the first phase of our pilot program in Kenya, and the initiation and training stages of phase two in Uganda. We now need your continuing support to maintain this momentum. With your help we can expand the pilot and work in cooperation with additional centers in E. Africa, develop and support the cell-phone platform, and carry out the detailed program of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) that will ensure that the pilot has a big impact.
Our MEL team of academics and development professionals are working together to monitor, evaluate and report on the program's impact. Feedback from the trainers, the farmers and their support workers will inform the continuous development of the program, and the creation of a knowledge-base and support-base for a subsequent roll-out of the service world-wide.
Learn more about the Pilot Program HERE.

PRI-Kenya

The Permaculture Research Institute, Kenya played a key role in coordinating the initial stages for the pilot program in East Africa, acting as the umbrella organization for the initial phases of the pilot, liaising with the implementing organization to help create a learning environment that is adapted to local conditions and cultures.
PRI-Kenya made a huge contribution to the development of our program of training and support whereby we work with the farmers and their community for two full years. This allows a seasonally-appropriate curriculum to be interspersed with practical experimentation, fitting perfectly with the permEzone approach of creating long-term support systems to maintain the momentum of change after the training is over.