Paul Ogola, Kenya permaculture

Here I am teaching farmers how  to make compost!

Hi, my name is Paul Odiwuor Ogola
I live in Northern Kenya and as a community leader my mission is to bring permaculture to my region. We are a community of small farmers facing changing weather patterns, low investment and relative isolation.

The learning and connection we have experienced already by being involved in permaculture has been transforming and my dream now is to build on that by becoming a qualified and experienced peramaculture teacher myself.

I left Kenya for the first time earlier this year to study permaculture design in Uganda with teachers from both Wales and Uganda, this was a life changing experience for me! I am already teaching and sharing the ideas in my community near Lake Victoria and my ambition is to become a better and  more effective teacher.

This is why I need your help

I have been offered a full bursary to attend and help deliver the September PDC in Wales by the same group, Sector39 who taught in Kamuli, Uganda but can only attend if I can cover my personal travel costs.

Setting foot outside Africa for the first time will be a huge experience for me, but more importantly it is a chance to learn skills and to gain experience that I can share it with my commuity. Permaculture teaches how to learn from nature to build resilient systems that are more than sustainable, they regenerate degraded lands and also help build commuity. These are exactly the kinds of help we need in Africa now and our aim is to create a beacon of hope, inspiration and learning for our brothers and sisters in Kenya and around the world.

I am asking you to help me transform my community, in return I will certainly be grateful but more importantly I will be determined to reach out to and share this experience with as many people as I can.

Help me make a difference! I will post blogs, facebook stories and pictures of my journey and from the course itself, I hope to inspire many others to make positive action for change in their own communities