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May 16, 2007

More cross pollination!

I had a really fun time doing a slideshow for the Malawi permaculturists, showing them the similarities in concept between their work and ours in Portland! Besides their general interest in hearing about American permaculture, they seemed to be most struck by two things: that people PAY for workshops instead of BEING PAID (as is true with the international aid world here—so absurd in so many ways) and how hard people have to work in the States to raise money!

I also shared with them the story of Kufunda Village, the permaculture education center in Zimbabwe that I visited. This photo is a short video clip of Silas from Kufunda giving a tour!

And here's a little video of another presentation in Malawi, for a group of new permaculturists... it's of Silas at Kufunda, and then the translation into Chichewa (Malawi local language).

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