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<div>Eston Mgala is a passionate permaculture practitioner and activist in Central Malawi. He has committed his life and career to helping Malawi have a healthy environment and healthy, thriving communities. Building on over 15 years of permaculture, agroecology and sustainable development experience, Eston recently founded the Center for Permaculture and Regenerative Living in Malawi. Eston is raising funds to purchase 30 acres of land and establish demonstration gardens, a community center, and training space, to name a few goals! This will be a central community hub for capacity building, providing hands-on experience in food and nutrition security, environmental restoration, agroforestry, water and soil health management, climate adaptation, livestock management, development of entrepreneurs, and demonstrating nature-based solutions.
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<div>The Center for Permaculture and Regenerative Living is a social enterprise registered with the Malawian government. We envision having our own land to develop a holistic functional center, which will be the first of its kind in Malawi. The Center will be established in a rural area connected to surrounding communities and with access to the main road. We envision starting with 30 acres of land and plan to expand in the future.
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<div>Solutions we will offer:
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<li>Build and incubate agri-entrepreneurs
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<li>Promote environmental restoration
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<li>Establish a Community Center and Knowledge Hub
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<li>Use sport as a tool for community development
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<div>Marius Ziganira is a man on a mission. An agronomist refugee, he plans to restore the degraded farmland of the Nakivale Refugee Camps, Uganda, so that it can sustain the large and growing population of refugees who live there. Nakivale is a complex of 74 villages housing about 140,000 refugees and 35,000 Ugandans.  Many of the refugee are widows trying to live and feed their family from farming on denuded soils.  All are coping with physical or psychological traumas related to the violent incidents they fled. Uganda's welcoming policy towards refugees, by providing plots of land for farming and housing, has not been able to withstand the damaging pressures on soils, trees and water, from both an increasing refugee population and the climate change related unpredictability of the weather creating crop failures.   With the assistance of Australian collaborator, Owen Allen, Marius has started a program to rebuild the soil, improve agricultural including establishing a seed bank of robust varieties, teach ecological agriculture methods, and provide climate resilience.   Successful farmer seminars and the first phase of developing a seed bank has shown the potential of the concept. At the behest of the Ugandan Government, the UMOJA Community Foundation has been formed that, apart from Owen Allen, has a board , administrative and technical team of significant education, capacity, and experience from among the refugee community. In the near term, the goal is to: * procure enough seeds for crops to provide food and develop a seed bank of stable seeds to expand the access to seed to more and more farmers; * gather enough tools (we are talking hand tools like hoes and machetes) to provide for the family-based work force and, * with help from the international community, to train the farmers in sustainable methods to build soil fertility. 
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Funding goal $USD20,000 or ~ $AUD29,000 YOU ARE INVITED TO MAKE ANY CONTRIBUTION. EVERY SMALL DONATION COUNTS. PLEASE CONSIDER A REGULAR MONTHLY CONTRIBUTION. There are fees associated with GOFUNDME. Owen has taken it on as part of his contribution to pay all fees so that your contribution will be passed on in full.   A BIG THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY CONTRIBUTED WHICH HAS ACTIVATED THE SEED BANK PROJECT&gt; 
<div> For more information see <a href="https://www.phoenixfunctions.com.au/umoja_home.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">website</a> 
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Please help me help others. There is a need to make the process of seeking Asylum more accessible to those fleeing peril caused by capitalism in Central America. Additional barriers have recently been added to making asylum even more challenging to achieve for vulnerable populations. I am asking you to help me reduce those barriers. Help me make the relative safety of Eugene more equitably available.  The Need for Asylum: The people  of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala are experiencing life threatening levels of persecution and danger as a result of tensions over resources. Gangs have formed and are using violence toward women and children to manipulate, coerce and force participation of families into their agenda. Some of these families have managed to flee their homes which no longer provide safety or sustenance. They have journeyed over many terrains and perils to reach the border of Mexico and the U.S. inspired by the hope of Asylum that has been available and granted through U.S. laws since the end of WW II.  Some families are being turned back at the border. Some families are being separated and detained. Some families are being released into the United States. A few families have made it to Eugene and are living in the homes of Sponsors.  Once in Eugene, there are many aspects of arriving, adjusting and healing that are needed. There are some volunteer groups and some agencies that are providing services on a volunteer basis until funding can be arranged.  A newly arrived refugee or asylum seeker will be required to engage in various systems such as; Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Legal Representation, Medical Services, Mental Health Services, Educational institutions and more. These are all cross cultural relationships that are complex and challenging on both ends.  The single best predictor for weather an application for asylum is granted is if the person has legal representation. Families come with minimal, if any finances. There exists a gap, a chasm to be crossed. My Offering The gap between the need for legal services and the lack of funds is where you and I come in. I am asking for your support to help me fill that gap.  I will work through  the legal nexus of Equity Corp. I will be offering my experience and skills to provide Navigation through the legal process and to provide witness to the ICE check-ins.  I will offer 12 hours a week in collaboration with Oregon Community Asylum Network, changing and adapting my role as the needs change in the process of achieving asylum.  My Qualifications I am a Mental Health Counselor with a Masters in Counseling, fluent in Spanish and over 20 years of experience in Social Services and counseling. I have education and skills which I have used in previous positions to provide Mental Health Counseling in both English and Spanish. I have taught English as a Second Language for children, Spanish as a Second Language for English speaking adult, Legal Advocacy for women seeking protection for abuse, and play therapy for children who have experienced trauma.  My Ask I am asking for individuals like you in my community to fund me to provide these services for as long as they are needed. I am reaching out to you asking that you consider supporting me in this restorative work. I am hoping to be able to raise $6000 for the time being. I am also nourished  by your words of support and understanding of the value of this work at this time. Thank you for your time, attention, consideration and care.

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-UPDATE-  Thanks to everyone who donated to the fund! 126 donors raised $10,200 !!! Much love and gratitude! Our 30 day campaign has ended so we are no longer excepting donations through this platform. We are working on other outlets to raise the next $20,000 needed to support this event. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please go to our website- <a href="https://earthrepair.friendsofthetrees.net/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://earthrepair.friendsofthetrees.net/</a> This crowdfunder also acquired 3,205 views and 1,255 shares. We would like to thank all the people who helped spread the word about this campaign. This really helped create positive momentum towards the event. -------------------------------------------------------------- Your donation will help launch a first-of-its-kind event, the Global Earth Repair Conference to be held May 3 - 5 in Port Townsend, WA, USA.  Our team is preparing for over 500 people from around the world to unite in Port Townsend, Washington, for three exhilarating days of learning, celebration, and collective action. The Conference will focus on the grassroots level of restoring the vitality of our world. More than 70 presenters will weave together their expertise in various fields, including restoration ecology, agroforestry, permaculture, carbon sequestration, and myco-remediation. Together we’ll envision a thriving planet for our descendants seven generations from now, and strategize the many steps it will take to get there. A conference of this scale requires significant funds to organize. The donations our team collects now will cover transportation / lodging costs for our keynote speakers, many of whom will be traveling from abroad. A scholarship fund will allow a number of students, youth, and First Nations / Native Americans to attend the conference for free.  A further goal of the Conference is to create a portal for earth repair knowledge and networking. To that end, we’re investing in technology for webcasting, podcast production, and conference calls, enabling people around the world to participate. If you’d like to support the Global Earth Repair Conference as a major sponsor at the $250 to $4,000 level, please read about the various perks we are offering here:  <a href="https://earthrepair.friendsofthetrees.net/become-a-sponsor/">Sponsorship</a>  Here is how your donation will help launch the GERC: * 50%  for presenters’ travel and accommodations * 30%  for Indigenous representatives and scholarships * 20%  for media and webcasting. We hope you will attend the conference (in person, or online). May 3 – 5 at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington! You can purchase tickets at the Global Earth Repair Conference website: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-earth-repair-conference-tickets-50407095981">Registration</a>  The Global Earth Repair Conference will feature: * Keynote speeches by; John D. Liu, Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, Ilarian Merculieff, Mona Polacca, Precious Phiri and Derrick Jensen. * Panels, round-table discussions, and workshops with over 70 experts in various fields of ecosystem restoration. *Field trips to successful earth repair projects on the Olympic Peninsula * Training intensives before and after the conference * Tree planting * Ceremony, music, art * Honoring the heroes &amp; heroines of earth repair We are offering a limited number of work-trade opportunities for discounted admission tickets. Find out about this program here:  <a href="https://earthrepair.friendsofthetrees.net/organizing-team-and-worktrade/">WorkTrade</a>  If you’re interested in joining our team, we are looking for more people to help us organize the many facets of this conference.  <a href="https://earthrepair.friendsofthetrees.net/organizing-team-and-worktrade/">Organizing Team</a>  We are also building an international directory of earth repair projects and practitioners. If you would like to research a particular field or part of the world, drop us a line via the GERC website. Please share this crowd funder with your network and spread the word about the Global Earth Repair Conference. With a united effort, we can accomplish ‘The Great Work of Our Time’: to regreen our planet and recarbonize our soil. <a href="http://www.earthrepair.friendsofthetrees.net">Conference Website</a>  


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UPDATE MAY 31ST We made our initial goal within 24 hours! From all of us working on jim's recovery support team thank you so much for all of your generosity, shares and prayers. We knew we could raise this money but we are all awed that we were able to raise it this quickly. We thoughtfully came up with our goal amount by discussing future anticipated costs with Stephanie. We did our best to come up with an accurate monetary reflection of what recover would look like for jim and his family. However the reality is we don't exactly know what is in store. We know medical costs will be high and we know there will be an extensive recovery time when jim won't be working. Now that we have raised our goal, let's continue to show the McDonald family our love and support with our continued donations, shares, and prayers. Thank you! Thank you! __________________________________________________ Friends, family and wider community, we reach out today with an urgent call for help. Our dear friend, jim mcdonald had a massive heart attack on May 25th while he was traveling in Scotland. A well-hidden flaw in a heart we all know to be a source of joy, love and compassion finally made itself known. In addition to the heart attack he developed a serious complication that resulted in emergency surgery. He is currently in critical but stable condition, is under sedation, and while he is expected to make a full recovery, the journey there will be long. Stephanie and the kids are on their way to Scotland to be with jim now, and are expecting to be there for up to 6 weeks, until jim is allowed to travel home. A heart attack is always a serious and life-threatening emergency, when it happens thousands of miles away, in a foreign country, the difficulties and costs faced by the family multiply infinitely. jim is a husband, and father of three, who supports his family through teaching. We’re asking today for your help in supporting jim, and his family, through this enormously hard moment in time. We need help paying for travel for his wife, Stephanie and their three children. We need your help paying for their time in Scotland during jim’s convalescence. We need help paying for jim’s surgery and recovery time in the hospital. And finally, as Jim begins his recovery, we need your help filling in the gaps that the loss of several months income will mean for his family. It’s a big ask; but if not his community, and his friends, who else? To help keep the McDonalds afloat in this storm is going to take all of us, pitching in, how and where we can. The first, best and most direct help you can give, is through this GoFundme effort. Literally every dollar counts. If jim’s teaching, his herbs, his goodness, his questionable wit, and undeniable enthusiasm has ever touched you, please consider taking this time to show that love back in his time of need. Please share this GoFundMe far and wide: 5 dollars from a stranger matters. 10 bucks from one of your coworkers makes a difference. And finally, in whatever version of prayer you practice, please hold jim and his family in your hearts. Keep the good intentions and healing love flowing so that we can have him back to talking about prog rock soon. We are all so lucky to be a part of jim’s community, be it local or extended around the world. This is our chance to do something together, to rally and support them, so that jim and his family can heal. With our deepest gratitude,  jim's recovery support team <img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/30221366_15276312210_r.jpeg" alt="30221366_15276312210_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /> ............................................................................. (also, jim is a very popular man— please understand that Stephanie is overwhelmed, and is asking for privacy so that she can focus on her family. We know you’ll have questions and will also want to pass messages on to jim himself for when he’s awake. For general questions or requests, please email [email redacted] and if you’d like to send jim a ‘get well soon’ email we’ve set up his own email at [email redacted] )

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We are Mel, Teague and baby Uly. We need your help to buy a school bus so we can convert it into a traveling food foresting home of our own! <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496102873.6069_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496102038.786_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />We are farmers and permaculture designers. Together we run a farm called <a href="http://winslowfoodforest.com/" target="_blank">Winslow Food Forest</a> in Portland, Oregon.  As young farmers, owning land has been out of reach. So we worked with what we had, beginning in the backyard of a punk house we were renting back in 2012. <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496101519.6397_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496102828.6684_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />As we grew our small farm business, we began to realize the power of being nomadic as we have we traveled throughout the Pacific Northwest to design and install food forests on a range of properties, from urban backyards to rural acreage homesteads.  <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496101769.1888_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />This is where you come in...Your support would change our lives. You would be helping us to travel from site to site installing and maintaining food forests. <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496101898.5137_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />Living in a converted school bus will give us the home we have been longing for, and allow us to own our home outright, which means we can invest more funds into our mission of creating food forests everywhere! <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496102413.6082_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />In addition, we have beloved friends and family all over the country who we plan to connect with as we travel, to give our baby a rich upbringing full of love, adventure, and good gardening. <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496102965.1581_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />We believe that perennial agroforestry systems can help regenerate ecosystems, and can restore health and happiness to our communities. <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496103069.2613_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496103408.2137_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496103849.3279_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />We are committed to leaving a mosaic of edible ecosystems in our wake. Please help us build a home that will allow us to expand our direct action of repairing our earth and growing good food for people everywhere. Please donate if you can (any amount helps so much!) Please share it on your social media! Thank you!!! <img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496104176.9118_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496104144.3369_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><img class="not-resizable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/20741602_1496104110.2269_funddescription.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /> Additional Details: We are asking for help to raise $5,000 to buy the bus itself. Teague has  carpentry skills,  and we have a community of friends and family that have offered to help with the conversion itself.  Any additional funds raised will go towards converting the bus to run off of waste vegetable oil, installing solar panels on the bus, and conversion costs such as installing energy efficient appliances. If you are local, you can choose to support us by signing up for a <a href="http://winslowfoodforest.com/harvest-share/" target="_blank">CSA membership</a> or by booking us for a <a href="http://winslowfoodforest.com/2014-csps/" target="_blank">Permaculture Design Consultation</a> or Permaculture Site Design. For some ideas of how we'll convert a school bus into a home, check out the following links of people who have already accomplished conversions of their own! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYryxKfrUc" target="_blank">Example: Expedition Happiness Bus House</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BHaGa439lg" target="_blank">Example: Tiny House School Bus Conversion</a> <a href="http://winslowfoodforest.com/what-is-a-food-forest/" target="_blank">What is a Food Forest?</a>

Bus House for Winslow Food Forest 

Dear friends, new and existing, My name is Denise Joy, and for more than 30 years I have run Mountain Spirit Herbals. Making medicine has been my passion since learning many years ago from my grandmother, who was the 3rd in a lineage of herbalists. In the last 30 years, I have built a business on selling high quality medicinal herbal products to the public.  Now, my ability to continue to make these products is threatened. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken to surfing the internet to find small business owners like me in an effort to force us to match the standards of pharmaceutical drug companies. In essence, they put me through the harrowing process of a drop-in visit, with multiple follow-up visits, during which time they informed me that I cannot continue to do business in the same way I have been. This in spite of the fact that never once has a complaint been made about my products, nor has any been found to be tainted, or to have caused harm to anyone. My business is a sole proprietorship. I make, package and market nearly every item in my catalog myself. I take pride in the quality of my products. The herbs which form the basis of every product are grown organically or wildcrafted by myself whenever possible; otherwise I purchase only high quality organic and wildcrafted herbs, oils and other products from respected vendors. My emphasis is on small batch processing, ensuring the best possible product. At this point, the FDA is insisting I make major changes to my business including at a minimum relabeling, changes in marketing and advertising, and extensive documentation on every product for every batch made.  They are treating me as a drug company even though I am careful always to stress that these are traditional uses for herbs and that a certified health practictioner should be consulted before use.  At this point, I have not been given a deadline by when I must comply, but I am being told that it is necessary to do this as quickly as possible, preferably within a year. This is my livelihood as well as my passion. To create herbal medicine that helps those in need is what I do best! I truly want to continue doing this in my life, but at a cost of an expected $20,000 over the next year, I don’t know if I can without your help. Costs will include: --lawyer fees. I have found an excellent lawyer who specializes in helping small businesses like mine work with the FDA successfully. I will need to be reclassified as a non-drug entity, among other things --consultant fees. I am looking for a consultant who can help me ensure that I am in compliance with the FDA rules --development and printing of procedure manuals --graphic designers to redesign all labels --website fees for modification of the website --catalog rewrite and reprinting fees --loss of business costs. I expect that I will have to significantly change some products. Others will be relabeled and marketed differently, so clients will not know what they are. Some of my best selling products have been specifically targeted by the FDA. Additionally, I may have to take down my website for a period of time in order to make changes. The website represents a major portion of my business income Why should you help me? --If my products have helped you or a family member, this will help ensure they will be available to you for years to come!  --If you have never used my products, then consider whether it is important to you to have high quality alternative products which can be used to help you and your family maintain and achieve better health.  --Plants are the basis of nearly every medicine out there. I rely on traditional uses and experience to understand how to use them, rather than laboratory processes. In doing this, I am following a tradition that is thousands of years old. The government should not be able to take away the choice to use these traditional choices from the public. --My business supports me and my family. Additionally, it has offered community services for all 30 years, and offered training to many apprentice herbalists.  How else can you help?  --offer services (I am looking for a web person, and possibly a graphics person) --buy my products! Give them as gifts. Encourage others to purchase my products. --ask your friends, family and everyone you know to support my campaign. It has been a privilege to serve you for the past 31 years and counting, and I pray that with your help, I will be able to satisfy the FDA regulators and continue to provide these products for you and your families. Blessed be, Denise Joy

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Our beloved friend, mushroom guide, gardener and permaculture educator, Fungi Lion Gabe Gaul, has suffered some heavy hits recently including having many of his belongings burned up in the Fruitland, WA wildfire. He was in the process of moving to new digs in Kettle Falls when the fire came through his old place and took out a lot of his personal items and tools of his trade. And this is right on the heels of having his work truck totaled in a deer hit. For sure, a lot of folks are needing help right now and this is probably not the only appeal for financial help you're hearing, but if you can, please send your love to Gabe, possibly in the form of money (but all love is gratefully received, that much we know). We all have experience with what a financial burden moving to a new place is, so just think how heavy a burden it is for Gabe to lose his truck and many of his tools and belongings right in the middle of that. Please give if you can.

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