Muslim Aid Australia and partners’ Mahboba’s Promise, and the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia have implemented a project to set up a permaculture training centre in Kabul. Men, women and youth will be able to come from all over Afghanistan to relearn some of the traditions lost and acknowledge new ways of looking after the earth and growing their food. Permaculture concepts can be applied to waste disposal - which in Afghanistan is usually non-existent - so teaching composting and using waste constructively would be of huge benefit. Another area which has tremendous potential is the harvesting of water which is abundant after the snows, yet lost because we do not use any techniques for storing or conserving it.
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The first permaculture students are the widows that are living in the Hope House centre and those who are supported as part of the Widow Outreach Program. By building a model permaculture farm near the Hope House base, there will always be willing hands to help even when courses aren’t being undertaken. The model farm will benefit the whole community and there will be a ready market place for surplus produce. |
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Furthermore, we have the opportunity of a close liaison with a large micro-credit organisation which is keen to work with us once we can identify workable strategies by which our widows can become self sufficient. So we can either help widows return to traditional land with the confidence to start implementing what they have learnt or we can secure allotments near Kabul which the widows can farm and sell their produce.
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| Students can be drawn from all over Afghanistan and the knowledge that they will take back to their communities will be invaluable and help create the future of a stable and healthy Afghanistan. |
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