There is soo much to do!

All those good ideas are giving us a wonderful and exiting vision for the future. Imagine such a place, where people work (hard) to make a living in good harmony and sharing resources and income mutually.
A place where young people in need find a shelter and a home where to start a meaningful life from and all this with income generated from the organic farm and eco-lodge and with support of national and international volunteers, guests, visitors, tourists, well-wishers!
A community build on values of co-operation, harmony, sustainability and sharing instead of materialism, consumerism and greed!

What a challenge to get going!

As I have been working for many years in various development projects the most obvious way forward was to make proposals, and look for funding with some organisations. But soon I realised that taking about alternative ways of living is actually not part of the vocabulary of development organisations. Moreover, these days the North of Uganda is attracting a lot of attention making it difficult to find funding for Kabale area. An one has to realise that many families only eat once a day, and have problems to find even firewood to cook their food!

So friends in the Netherlands have started a foundation to support our activities and some small funding is coming in.
The first development is to construct a proper ecological sound ECOsan toilet. (sqatting on a locally made pit latrine is not everyone's favoured way of .........) We would like to construct with ISSB Blocs, as these don't need burning of bricks and need less cement than conventional building.
Now we are looking for a way to get an ISSB press, either on a loan basis or maybe as a grant from someone who is not using it any more.

Other plans for the near future are to get a camping site going, build a shower with a safari heater, renovate one house as a kitchen and build housing for chicken en goats.

An than we need visitors to enjoy the place, help building it, bringing in ideas, know-how, strong arms, making PR; training in cooking, catering, bricklaying, organic farming or permaculture ....................., and last but not least learn something from and about Africa and having a lots of fun.


After a good night sleep, a visitor comes out of our tent!

Visitors enjoying a canoe ride!

So lets put hands together and get this place going:

Even the kids from the neighbourhood enjoy some holiday work (collecting stones form surrounding fields) and to earn some pocket money for Christmas.