by kusamala | Jul 26, 2012 | General
Seventy students, fifteen secondary school teachers, and fifteen Peace Corps volunteers visited the Centre yesterday as a part of Peace Corps’ annual Camp Sky program. During their morning at the Centre, the students rotated through three different stations where they...
by kusamala | Jul 18, 2012 | Projects, Trainings
Today Eston and Biswick led the first in a series of six full day permaculture trainings for our staff members and their families. The trainings are the first stage of a new project Kusamala is launching in partnership with the Red Soil Project, and NGO based out of...
by kusamala | Jul 16, 2012 | General
In the Chitedze community Never Ending Food has been working for over 10 years to promote permaculture at the household level. Researcher Abby Conrad, who has been living and working at the Centre for the past 9 months, has found that their work has had a strong...
by kusamala | Jul 16, 2012 | Projects
Eston and Molly traveled to the Home of Hope Orphanage near Mchinji to meet the founder and director of the orphanage, Reverend Thomson John Chipeta, this past Thursday. The meeting is the first of many to prepare for a six-month apprenticeship offered to two young...
by kusamala | Jul 13, 2012 | General
Yesterday a group of Kusamala staff and interns went to USAID’s Feed the Future kick off party. The main attraction for most of us was the anticipation of seeing President Joyce Banda, one of only two African heads of state. As close neighbors of the statehouse, we...