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ISABELA BATCH IN CABIOKID

Recently, Cabiokid finished its third course last July 3 for the 2009 Permaculture Design Certificate Courses series. Participants were mainly composed of different people coming from the province of Isabela for the STEP Program, Gawad Kalinga Volunteers, and participants from SALIS, a private school in Cavite.

As part of the Sustainable Technologies and Entrepreneurial Permaculture Program in Isabela is concerned, the Provincial Office of Isabela together with the respective departments sent trainees in Cabiokid to learn more about permaculture’s ethics, principles and the applications thereof. The participants were very enthusiastic and paid great attention to designing with the principles. As with the other batches that trained, they ended with a design exercise wherein they applied the concepts and principles that they learned during the program. Isabela participants learned new techniques on permaculture designs and concepts that could help them to set up a more sustainable farming and livelihood system within their environment.

Gawad Kalinga volunteers, SALIS participants, showed likewise great enthusiasm in putting their minds into creating suitable and sustainable designs.

VOLUNTEERS

Bouworde youth from Flanders, Belgium assisted in the construction of a Learning Resource Center at Barangay Palasinan, Cabiao, Nueva Ecija from July 15-Aug 1, 2008.

Cabiokid has increasingly become a place for volunteers, researchers, individuals and families to know more about permaculture at work and see for themselves how there will be life beyond peak oil.

LAND DEVELOPMENT

Cabiokid is active in promoting a diversified and nature sensitive land use planning in accordance with permaculture principles to augment the current low and “climate change” vulnerable productivity of farms and most public lands. As driving force within the organization PINTIG, we are currently undertaking the development of a 4ha adjacent land to showcase the potentials of permaculture in land use planning and holistic design.