PermoAfrica Training Centre

Country: Kenya Hub: No Hub

Members 50

Active last year 4000

Started 2016

Paid roles No

Legal structure Unconstituted (a group of individuals)

Activity Very Active

These figures reflect a rapidly growing, community-driven movement rooted in practical action, local leadership, and long-term ecological and social transformation. Our core team of approximately 30–50 active volunteers and facilitators coordinates permaculture training, ecological restoration, and community resilience initiatives. Through strong partnerships with youth groups, women’s cooperatives, schools, faith communities, and smallholder farmers, we are able to extend our impact across multiple villages and community clusters. Measured Impact Our work has contributed to: Training approximately 3,000–4,000 community members in practical permaculture and sustainability skills Supporting hundreds of smallholder households to establish kitchen gardens, compost systems, and water harvesting structures Developing community demonstration sites that strengthen peer-to-peer learning and local innovation Building a growing network of grassroots practitioners committed to food security and climate resilience Community Transformation Example: In one of our partner communities, a youth-led farming group transformed a previously low-yield and drought-affected plot into a productive permaculture garden. Within a single growing cycle, households involved reported improved food availability, reduced household expenditure on vegetables, and renewed confidence in local food production systems. This success has since inspired neighboring families to adopt similar practices. Broader Impact: Our engagement goes beyond one-off trainings. Many participants continue through farmer learning groups, demonstration sites, and ongoing community-led initiatives focused on food sovereignty, ecological restoration, and sustainable livelihoods. This growing participation reflects increasing community trust and strong demand for practical, locally grounded solutions to environmental and socio-economic challenges. Each engagement strengthens local capacity, builds leadership, and contributes to long-term transformation at household, community, and landscape level.

Community-Based Organization (CBO) operating as PermoAfrica Training Centre under local registration in Homa Bay County.

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We implement a range of community-led permaculture and resilience projects focused on food security, ecological restoration, youth empowerment, and sustainable livelihoods. Our work is rooted in practical hands-on learning through demonstration sites, training programs, and community partnerships. We are currently developing and expanding the “Better Foods, Better Future” initiative, which supports regenerative agriculture, seed sovereignty, water harvesting, and inclusive community education across rural communities in Kenya and East Africa. For more information about our work, updates, and ongoing activities, please visit our main platform Bellow.

PermoAfrica Training Centre is a community-based permaculture and sustainability education initiative rooted in Homa Bay County, western Kenya. Founded in 2019, the Centre works alongside smallholder farmers, youth, women, and vulnerable families to co-create practical solutions for food justice, ecological restoration, climate resilience, and sustainable local livelihoods.

Guided by the principles of the Transition movement, we support communities to regenerate soils, strengthen local food systems, restore ecosystems, and build resilient local economies grounded in collaboration, inclusion, and care.

Our hands-on training programs include permaculture design, water harvesting, keyhole gardens, aquaponics, composting, herbal medicine, renewable energy, eco-sanitation, and community resilience education. We also integrate faith-based ecological stewardship, connecting spiritual values with care for creation and community wellbeing.

Through the “Better Foods, Better Future” campaign, we are mobilizing grassroots communities across Kenya and East Africa to restore degraded land, promote seed sovereignty, empower local leadership, and create inclusive, sustainable food systems.

PermoAfrica is part of a growing grassroots movement across Africa committed to healing both people and the planet while nurturing dignity, hope, self-reliance, and long-term community resilience.

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