Hi, my name is Raymond Orenda
I live in Western Kenya and as a community leader my mission is to bring Organic permaculture to my region. We are a community of small farmers facing changing weather patterns, low investment and relative isolation.

The learning and connection we have experienced already by being involved in  organic permaculture has been transforming and my dream now is to build on that by becoming a qualified and experienced permaculture teacher myself.

I left my county for the first time late last year to study permaculture design at LAIKIPIA with teachers from PRI KENYA; this was a life changing experience for me! I am already teaching and sharing the ideas in my community near Lake Victoria and my ambition is to become a better and more effective teacher.

This is why I need your help
when I came back from the PDC I managed to mobilize the community members and formed CBO (Community Based Organization) and Organic Food Kenya is the name of this organization it is run by 8 volunteers and our focus is to develop a working organic farm that not only provides organic food but aid in the education of farmers in organic practices and the importance of clean and safe drinking water source. ( www.organicfoodkenya.com)

The importance of Organic Permaculture education in communities is measured not just in the creation of clean food but in the creation of community.  People naturally gather around water and food and it is the base of all civilizations and a clear path to the future is created in the process.  

When communities are provided with opportunities to work together creating food and water security it offers so much more because of the healing power that comes for feeding ourselves and our families.  The practice also removes many fears of the future and of course clean water is key to all of this. The truth is that when there is clean water there is life and when that source is contaminated the project itself becomes impossible.

Organic Food Kenya knows that no human being is useless thus all community members are included regardless of sex, age, race and status.

The most marginalized groups of people like the orphans, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAS) and the old are all catered for in this project.

So far with donations from friends we managed to buy a piece of land 0.25 HA, Processed our Tittle Deed, registered our project with the government, did the fencing, build our guest house, put the doors, put the inner door frames bought a small water tank, put part of the gutters for the roof to harvest water when it rains, bought a one double decker bed for the volunteers.  

We have been working tiresomely with our volunteers both locally and internationally, planting our small food forest, planting sweet potatoes, kales, cowpeas and capsicum that dried up due to water shortage. We are always updating our supporters with pictures in every step we make.

We are here a gently again to kindly asking for your financial help to make our farm functional. We are having set backs on water issues and we need to buy two more big tanks to store water for the farm use, we need to renovate our guest house to make it fit for our volunteers, put our compost toilet.

This is very agent and we will indeed appreciate every penny donated remember no donation is too small for us.

We are nearing our election time and as the political temperature rise each and every day up to now we don’t know how the outcome will be but we are praying for peace.

If our supporters each can donate 5 dollars we will reach our goal in a day. Permaculture teaches how to learn from nature to build resilient systems that are more than sustainable; they regenerate degraded lands and also help build community. These are exactly the kinds of help we need in Africa now and our aim is to create a beacon of hope, inspiration and learning for our brothers and sisters in Kenya and around the world.

We are again asking you to help us transform our  community, in return we will certainly be grateful but more importantly we will be determined to reach out to and share this experience with as many people as we can.
We are a gently looking to raise 3000 dollars to help settle water problem at the farm that is to buy all the big tanks we need, and renovate our guest house! Already raised 500 dollars and looking to raise now 2500 dollars.

Kindly donate.

You can learn more from our project website at www.organicfoodkenya.com

Regards!