Eco-Building Joya / Utz Kaslimaal
Support My Journey to Share Skills with the Joya Orphanage in
Mazunte, Oaxaca Mexico and Utz Kaslimaal Eco-Building Co-op in Guatemala!
Joya Orphanage Team Mazunte, Mexico 2017 https://www.joyaorphanage.com/
Utz' K'aslimaal Collective, El Salvador and Guatemala https://utzkaslimaal.org/our-story/
The Workshop Projects of the Joya Orphanage and Utz Kaslimaal collective are in need of labour and financial support to cover costs of materials and to carry out project goals this season.
The Workshops are to begin in one month from now, on November 25th and run through December of 2018.
The method of which each group attracts funding is through online fundraising and by inviting paying participants to learn and practice ecological building techniques on site, guided by experienced building crews. The building crews, participants and donors all contribute to fund and carry out successful projects.
Currently both projects are in need of more funds and participants to achieve the project goals.
The workshops will follow principles of Earthships (www.earthshipglobal.com), Adobe, Cob, Earth Bag, Wattle and Daub, rubble trench and stone foundations, with fine natural plaster finishings.
For the Joya Orphanage in Mazunte, Mexico they are in need of more participants and missing approximately 60 % of their targeted fund raising goal https://www.gofundme.com/orphanage-Mexico
The Utz Kaslimaal Build in Guatemala is running on a shoestring budget of grassroots donations, and also needs more participants signed up to help their project.https://utzkaslimaal.org/upcoming-workshop/.
I have worked with members of each group in the past, been personally informed of each group's needs and have been requested by each group to collaborate in their fundraising and labour efforts.
Funds raised are to cover my travel and participation costs for each project.
Flight from Montreal to Guatemala roundtrip: app. 500$ CA
Participation Fees Joya Orphanage: 750$ US / 983$ CA
Participation Fees Utz Kaslimaal Build: 475$ US / 623$ CA
Total Costs : ~ 2106$ CA
Erich Burton and Crew of the Mohawk Seedkeepers Earthship (July 2018)
1st Coat of Exterior Plaster at the Living Center Strawbale Cabin ( August 2018)
Over the past decade, I have self funded my studying and travelling away from my home town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, pursuing learning experiences in a diversity of regenerative endeavours rooted in my interwoven passions of environmental and social sciences, practical adaptations to climate change in rural communities.
I have consistently balanced and structured my life to be in seasonal voluntary service, granting myself time to serve the needs of a variety of communities and their environments across the globe. I have worked to learn of and improve the fundamental state of ecological and social well-being in multiple communities in North America, Central and South America, Europe and in Central Asia through natural building and regenerative, low-impact practices.
After the completion of my Bachelors of Environmental Studies and Geography (Minors in Spanish and Indigenous Studies) I continued to work seasonally in reforestation in western Canada to fund my travels and particpation with multiple non-profit Volunteer projects in Canada and abroad, focusing on Rural Community Development, Natural Building, Organic Farming, Reforestation, and Regenerative Land and Resource Management.
I have recently moved back to Nova Scotia, my home province, from B.C and Quebec after a decade of experiences in Canada and abroad including:
A Bachelors of Environmental Studies and Geography with minors in Indigenous Studies and Spanish from Bishop's University, Sherbrooke Quebec (2010-2013 with a focus in Community Responses to Decolonization and Climate Justice with Agroecology.
10 seasons of Reforestation experience (B.C, Alb. 2009-2018)
A Permaculture Design Course (PDC) completed at the EcoDharma community in Cataluna, Spain, (June 2016)
A Weekend Permculture module on the Role of Animals in Climate Change and Alternative Economics, at the Deanery Project with Charles Williams (2018)
http://thedeaneryproject.com/permaculture-design-certificate/
An Organic Farming Internship at Golden Tree Farm on Salt Spring Island B.C (Feb, May.-Oct. 2017)
https://www.goldentreefarm.com/
Participated in the construction Straw Bale, post and beam, and cob/lime plastered cabin at the Living Center in London Ontario with Build Better (2018)
http://www.thelivingcentre.com/cms/
Co-management of material ordering, pick-up and delivery, building and volunteer coordinator on a 4 month Earthbag school project in Kathmandu and Makwanpur Nepal with Good Earth Nepal. They are now referred to as Good Earth Global. http://goodearthglobal.org/ (sept. 2015 – jan. 2016).
Participated and taught in multiple Cob and Earthbag workshops in Guatemala and Mexico, (2015-2018) including earthbag dome structures, cob houses, wattle and daub, rocket stoves, earthen walls and benches and finish plastering of adobe and lime with:
Fire Fly Gardens in Lago Atitlan, Guatemala
https://numundo.org/center/guatemala/firefly-gardens
Atitlan Organics, Guatemala
http://www.atitlanorganics.com/
Utz Kaslimaal Collective, Guatemala
https://utzkaslimaal.org/
The Guatemala Housing Alliance
http://www.guatemalahousingalliance.org/
Baja Bio Sana in Baja California Sur, Mexico
http://bajabiosana.com/
Studied in the Earthship Academy in Taos, New Mexico (2014)
https://www.earthshipglobal.com/
2 Earthship Builds at the 6 Nations Reservation south of Hamilton Ontario with Building Better (2016, 2018)
https://www.wearebuildingbetter.com/
(6 Nations Earthship by Earthship Biotecture and Building Better, 2016)
I've worked multiple seasonal worktrades of labour for room and board on organic and Permacutlure farms in B.C, California, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Spain, Portugal, France (2013-2018) and biological stations and organic farms in Ecuador with Jatun Sacha https://www.jatunsacha.org/ (2009) All informing me in diverse ways in sustainable rural livelihoods and cultural sensitivity and appreciation.
My present visions and goals in life are to develop a small organic farm and an educative permaculture demonstration site in Nova Scotia, as well as offer service on seasonal Humanitarian projects abroad such as this Joya Orphanage and Utz Kaslimaal Collective projects.
I Gratefully welcome all generous gifts to support my service in eco-building and regenerative commnuity initiaves !
Every bit is deeply appreciated no matter how small or grand.
If You Have Any Questions about the project I am fund raising for, please feel free to ask me at [email redacted]
Sincere Thank You to All who support these projects !
