Bafut Ecovillage

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2002

What we do

Bafut Ecovillage was founded in 2013 as a place for identifying, nurturing, and equipping Africa’s future leaders with experiences, insights, and tools of partnerships so that African-led solutions are developed as a response to the global crisis. Our team’s principles of upscaling our village to a peace village are based on the understanding that a new framework is needed to rebuild structures of global environmental ethics based on openness, transparency, and interconnectedness and using Permaculture networks to enhance peer-to-peer learning and cross-border collaborations. Working with a selected group of partners, leading academics, and accomplished community leaders in the global north, we have built the capacity of young change-makers who are co-creating adapted technologies and marketing communications solutions. www.betterworld-cameroon.com
Then the war broke out in 2017 and has taken its toll in countless ways. Among the casualties, nature; climate change (desertification, deforestation, pollution).
Bafut Ecovillage won the Gaia Trust Excellence Award as the most inspiring project of GENAfrica in 2015 for turning the tragedy Cameroon’s civil crisis into youth projects saving children from hunger and giving women a voice in land use. We’re now working on the African continent through GEN Africa & NextGEN in developing the Ecovillage Development Program, and running youth exchange, peace/reconciliation, improving natural resource management with local councils involving issues of gender balance.
After the civil war broke out in 2017 we established a project-based learning and networking desk office in Tamera, Southern Portugal with the aim to profile ourselves with like-minded organizations in Europe to give visibility and discoverability in the digital global community to our African Kitchen Revolution Project.
Our European desk is for goodwill organizations to create twin projects and build networks on marketing communications solutions.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Permaculture

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2002
  • Started living together

Video

  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

Someone joining our community should simply fill the volunteer form on our website and we will grant him an interview with expectations and needs.
Our offers are open to like-minded individuals, Permaculture enthusiasts, Artists, Natural building technicians, Food security experts, Social Entrepreneurs, goodwill organizations, University graduates, Gap year students, Interns, retired experts, woofers, tourists, Investors, Tour operators, Fundraisers, and musicians. Through a matrix of co-creation network weaving, we hope to be able to deliver online as well as onsite workshops to enhance creativity, send a message to the Ambazonian refugees, IDPs and the half a million youth taking dangerous routes of immigration, that Better World Cameroon cares about them.
We will be able to educate and inform youth & women about the crisis and change their consciousness on appropriate responses.
We will be able to encourage other peace & human rights organizations working on similar issues to take a similar stand.
Though experiencing a set-back with our Symposium, we believe we can continue preparations on-line. Though our work is recognized as important in Africa as it ignites active citizenry, civic duty, and volunteerism at the community levels, we face several challenges:
Given that we are generally not funded as donors and funders cannot identify us in any of their networking circles we believe that the opportunity to be present on this GEN platform will guide us to goodwill relations building with new possibilities with global charities.
We invite well-wishers to work with us in grassroots projects in Africa involving holistic sustainable development.
Support is needed to develop efforts in Regenerative Education tools, restoration studies of the Bafut Ecovillage devastated by the on-going political crisis, upgrade our training of trainer’s programs, and create a pool of consultants on African wisdom.

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Konkankoh Joshua

Ndanifor Permaculture Ecovillage
Cameroon

Location

  • Cameroon

Bafut Ecovillage

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11 years ago

Permaculture Design Course

In this program you will learn how to plan, create and nurture regenerative human settlements. You will gain new perspectives and understandings as well as a variety of tools for how we as human beings can become caretakers for the whole ecosystem; how we can create abundant and diverse community systems, gardens and landscapes by connecting to and understanding ourselves, our communities and our land in deeper ways. By learning to observe the patterns of life and its energy flows and cycles, by learning to work with them instead of against them, you will emerge with a complex skillset to bring about regenerative creative solutions in your life. This unique course brings Permaculture Design together with the indigenous cultural wisdom gathered by the international Nature Connection and Regenerative Culture movement and its networks, creating a cultural container that supports you on a journey into yourself, your community and the world around you. You will be immersed in this culture throughout the program as well as learn how to facilitate it in your own personal and professional context at home. This course will be a powerful, transformative community experience, enabled by a deep immersion into nature, music, and the presence of cultural visionaries and elders, all hosted in an evolving ecovillage in the magnificent mountains of the Swiss Alps. Topics: – Introduction to permaculture (history, ethics and principles) – Permaculture design methods and processes – Planning and building of permaculture systems – gardens, communities, companies – Self-sufficiency and sustainable living and building – Permaculture in agriculture – Practical know-how: Botany, composting, forest gardens and more – Social permaculture and community building, regenerative organisations, roles and project management – Nature connection tools and introduction to wilderness knowledge (Core Routines, 8 shields, bird language) – This course covers the Permaculture Association (B
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13 years ago

Curso Online

Esta píldora formativa se dirige a toda persona interesada en formas de vida alternativas. No se requieren conocimientos previos. El alumnado adquirirá conocimientos sobre huertos ecológicos, agricultura ecológica, permacultura, comunidades alternativas, bioconstrucción, arquitectura orgánica y materiales de construcción sostenibles. Modalidad Online. Duración: Se corresponde con un curso presencial de 30 horas lectivas. Horario: A su ritmo. Precio: Dependerá de la opción que elija. ACCESO AL FORMULARIO DE INSCRIPCIÓN: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HFI5ar_DtfaF3OPbzXwU6bnzBvUHs5CsFu1WfAal9pA/viewform >>OPCIÓN 1: 10€ por cada píldora formativa. Tendrá acceso a su píldora formativa durante dos semanas completas las 24 horas del día. La podrá descargar en su ordenador para consultarla cuando quiera cuantas veces quiera. La podrá utilizar como parte de un programa de formación blended (Presencial-Distancia). La persona coordinadora-tutora de su píldora formativa estará a su disposición para aclararle todas las dudas que tenga. >>OPCIÓN 2: 16€ por cada píldora formativa. Tendrá acceso a su píldora formativa durante dos semanas completas las 24 horas del día. La podrá descargar en su ordenador para consultarla cuando quiera cuantas veces quiera. La podrá utilizar como parte de un programa de formación blended (Presencial-Distancia). La persona coordinadora-tutora de su píldora formativa estará a su disposición para aclararle todas las dudas que tenga. Se entregará diploma acreditativo para el alumnado que supere el curso. >>OPCIÓN 3: 20€ por DOS píldoras formativas. Tendrá acceso a sus píldoras formativas durante dos semanas completas las 24 horas del día. Las podrá descargar en su ordenador para consultarlas cuando quiera cuantas veces quiera. Las podrá utilizar como parte de un programa de formación blended (Presencial-Distancia). La persona coordinadora-tutora de sus píldoras formativas estará a su disposición para aclararle todas las dudas que ten

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