R & A: Our Educational Learning Platform By Lindsey Selleck: E-learning Content Creator
Listen to this article. It’s time to wrap up our serialisation of articles from this year’s Report and Accounts. Lindsey is our Educational Learning Platform (ELP) content creator and she talks us through the current courses available on the platform, all free of charge. Lindsey has great hopes for the direction the ELP will take […]
Understanding COP28
Listen to this article. With the end of COP28 drawing ever closer, this seems like a perfect time to review the positive (and negative) outcomes of the global meeting thus far. With big parties such as the US, UK and China being present, the anticipation for groundbreaking policies to be installed seems to be at […]
Water Is Coming To The Permaculture Training Centre
Listen to this article. Water scarcity or lack of water at all, threatens health and development of communities. Such communities are constrained even economically as what little income they have must be used to secure water. Kahondzi is a woman who was eight months pregnant and gave birth on her way while searching for water. […]
R & A: Socially Speaking By Jed Robertson: Digital Media Specialist
Listen to this article. In this penultimate episode in our series of articles from our Report and Accounts, we hear from Jed, our digital and social media expert. He talks about the growing requirement for charities to stay up to speed with the ever changing technologies and platforms for social media. Jed also discusses how […]
The Importance Of White Roofs
Listen to this article. About 20 years back, anyone in my community who could afford an iron sheet roof was considered to be financially well off. Everyone aspired to have a roof of iron sheets. These were the times when the weather conditions were not as harsh as they have been the past few years. […]
R & A: Improving our Lives and our Planet by Organic Change By Solomon Owiti: Rusinga Island Permaculture Lead
Listen to this article. Following on perfectly from Joy’s article last week, Solomon, also from Rusinga Island, dives deeper into the positive impacts being felt by the Mothers of the Forest alliance on Rusinga Island. Solomon notes how climate change, and the resulting food and water insecurity, continue to cause problems for the Islanders. This […]
R & A: Women’s Empowerment on Rusinga Island by Joy Masseno, Facilitator of the Mothers of the Forest and Eunice Majuma, her Assistant. Part 2
Listen to this article. In episode 9, we heard the first part of the article by Joy, facilitator of the Mothers of the Forest on Rusinga Island, situated on the edge of Lake Victoria and her assistant, Eunice. In this article we continue with part 2 To catch up with any of the earlier articles […]
Dig Out Your Christmas Jumpers For Word Forest
Listen to this article. The weather has finally taken a more seasonal turn and it’s time to dig a little further back in our wardrobes to cope with chillier temperatures. In the not too distant future, there’s a high likelihood that many of us will be preparing to spend a week or so enjoying seasonal […]
R & A: Women’s Empowerment on Rusinga Island by Joy Masseno, Facilitator of the Mothers of the Forest and Eunice Majuma, her Assistant. Part 1
Listen to this article. We’re three quarters of the way through the serialisation of the articles featured in our Reports and Accounts 2022-23. We hope you’re enjoying reading and listening to them, as much as we are reproducing them. In episode 9, we hear from Joy, facilitator of the Mothers of the Forest on Rusinga […]