Due to the fantastic financial support by donors to Permaculture Australia’s Permafund grant program, 5 more community organisations have received a grant of AU $2,000. This brings the total number of community environmental and permaculture education projects funded in the 2024 grant round to twenty, the largest number for any grant round.
Fundraising is ongoing in preparation for the 2025 grant round when community organisations all around Australia and in the Asia Pacific region and elsewhere will be invited to apply. These are the five projects most recently funded.
In Malawi, the Chinansungwi Relief Hand Organisation (CHIREHO) aims to assist marginalised communities who are facing environmental degradation in Kapeni, Blantyre through regenerative agriculture training to help foster sustainable livelihoods.
The Regenerative Holistic Resource Centre in Kenya is not only providing farmers with bee-keeping training but also beehive starter packs to help them get established.
The Mkulima Sasa Regenerative Agriculture community-based organisation in Kenya aims to continue the establishment and expansion of their current demonstration projects plus to set up a rainwater harvesting system while providing follow-up syntropic agro-forestry training for the community and in schools.
In the Lake Victoria region of Kenya, Kajulu Hills Eco Villages are helping women farmers adapt to changing environmental conditions by distributing indigenous seeds to elderly women and widows. The initiative aims to encourage the cultivation of diverse climate-resistant crops to counter the loss of plant varieties, support ecosystem resilience and mitigate the impact of climate change.
In Tamil Nadu, India, the Women’s Organisation for Rural Development (WORD) project provides farmers in several villages training in permaculture methods and techniques to improve production of food grains, pulses and oil seeds, increase soil fertility and add to food security.
Permaculture Australia’s Permafund would like to thank the organisations that submitted applications to the 2024 grant round. News of the launch of the 2025 grant round will appear on the Permaculture Australia website.
Thank you to all the supporters who raise funds, make donations and regularly tithe to support the ongoing Permafund grants program. Your contributions are warmly welcomed and much appreciated.
For more information, please contact the Permafund committee at permafund@permacultureaustralia.org.au
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