Marilyn Agutu is 9 years old and is a very strong permaculture activist, who has worked with us in many permaculture design garden works around Koyonzo. You may recognise her from videos we have posted before on our FB page earlier last year. Permaculture is her great passion. Marilyn loves reading, music, visiting parks, gardening, tree planting and washing.

She goes to school at Sky Limit Academy and we are going to help her to set up a banana cycle organic garden in her school for production of organic fertilizer and food security and a demonstration garden in her village.

There are many teachers, students and villagers who have an interest in permaculture in this community, We want to support this young permaculturalist to lead the way and educate others. Marilyn needs a sponsor to help her meet her educational needs. As an organization we love her as she is ever ready to promote permaculture farming.

Her family will be so grateful if their daughter has a sponsor.

Caren Akimwai is a young girl from a poor family, aged 12 years old. She is an active member of Permaculture for Sustainable Communities and she has worked with us on our permaculture garden activities in Koyonzo for years. 
Her hobbies are sports, music, drama, gardening and tree planting. 
Both her parents are unemployed and poor. 
Currently she is not in school due to lack of school fees. Her school is Sky Limit which is 2km from her home in Koyonzo market.

She is a hard working girl who dreams to become a nurse one day. In her school she hopes to talk to her agriculture teacher to introduce our permaculture project there, especially she wants her school to start banana circle and vegetables which will give her school food security and contribute to the heath of her fellow students, while also fighting malnutrition and hunger in her school. Caren hopes to teach her teachers and fellow student permaculture farming design systems for the first time in the school, with the aim of expanding the project to the whole school.

Josephine Echase is 14 years old, and has been an active member of Permaculture for Sustainable Communities participating in land rehabilitation and soil building and compost manure making. Beside this she has participated in various videos appealing for fundraising for many permaculture programs that have benefited many people in Kenya.

She is from a poor family with single parent; her mother has no permanent job. She is the third born in her family. Her dream is to become soil scientist and work to improve poor soils in Kenya.

Josephine has been a student at Koyonzo Primary School where she has helped us to initiate many permaculture projects in her school. One project was funded by donors of Permaculture for Sustainable Communities. She has been called to join Koyonzo Girls Secondary school for her secondary education, but desperately needs financial support.

She hopes to introduce permaculture in her school, as organization we will work with her to design forest food garden with edible and useful trees,shrubs,vegetables,fruits,herbaceous perennials, ground cover and roots. The sponsorship education project will help us to reconnect thousands of students to nature and make local horticulture gardens more sustainable in more schools in Kenya.

Our mission is to get sponsors for each student and engage school communities in ecologically sound and just food systems through garden-based experience and education. The more schools engage in permaculture agriculture the more they will provide nutritious food, improve human health, clean water, and a healthier planet for all.

Its my appeal that our friends in Permaculture for Sustainable Communities help us to get sponsors for these needy students who will help us spread the permaculture work in schools.

Samuel Iseme is 13 years old. His mother and father separated, he stays with his mother who has no permanent work and with no stable income to care for her six children. Iseme will be grateful if he can get a sponsor to give him an opportunity to be educated as he has a joy for learning.

Iseme is one of our volunteer boys whenever we have permaculture activities he participates, he has skills in nursery bed management, we are helping him to set up urban tree nursery.

Iseme mother live in poverty life she cannot educate her children, it will be good news if her son get a sponsor.

His desire is to join to Josily Academy school for quality education and to introduce organic farming there to benefit many teachers and students.

Iseme is very grateful for this opportunity.

Katiba Maloba is a child of Prince Maloba the co-Founder of Permaculture for Sustainable Communities based in Kenya. 
He is 13 years old and has been helping his father along with his sister Dodo with permaculture farming in their father`s small plot that gave birth to Permaculture for Sustainable Communities. He has been very instrumental in helping his father with permaculture work in their farm and in his school where he and his father introduced a banana cycle project in his school two years ago.

Katiba was a student at Ngairwe School, 3km's from his home in Koyonzo market, where he used to walk each day to school. Just a few months ago in November Katiba became very sick and was paralysed and was unable to walk. He was in constant deep pain, crying and suffering.

PFSC supported the Maloba family to get Katiba treated and he is now on the road to recovery, but it will be slow and difficult. We are now looking for support so that we can enrol Katiba at a much closer school (Josil Academy School) so his studies can continue and he can introduce permaculture to a new school.

Katiba is a resilient boy who has a passion in art of drawing, planting his own crops and reading. He will be able to connect hearts of his fellow students and teachers to start a permaculture food forest in this school as he did in his former school. He will help to design school greening system using permaculture principles. He is a boy who can work tirelessly despite his health condition. We really appreciate your support and promise to regularly report back on progress so that you can see the difference your sponsorship makes not only to our family but to our community.

Rajabu Ochieny is a 14 year old boy living in great poverty with his single mother who is living with AIDS and cancer. His father died when he was just ten years ago. His mother has many children who don`t go to school, and she has lost hope in life. Her life is extremely hard and full of suffering. Rajabu is always chased away from school due to lack of tuition fees, school uniform, sometime to take care of his sick mother. Rajabu's mother has few years to live,she is always in and out of bed,she has no money to stay in hospital for treatment.This make Rajabu sad and frustrated boy with poverty they live in.

Rajabu can do well in school if he can get a sponsor to stand for his education, Rajabu is polite, humbly boy who can have smiling face and have hope in his life if he get a sponsor. Education will give him love and hope and make his mother proud.

Rajabu helps us run permaculture gardens in his village in Sikufu in Indangalasia sub-location. He has interest to start organic garden in his school. Rajubu love sports and gardening.

The boy will be the happiest person if he get a sponsor and his mother puts it,even in her death shall thank the sponsor to my child and die with hope if my child get education.Education is part of the solution to the family problems.

Patrict Othieno is 14 years old. He was a student at Butaliko School. His family is unable to take him to school as they do not have money to enrol him, we do hope  he can get a sponsor to cater for his education. The boy will help us so much to initiate permaculture farming in the school. The soil is so bad but with organic farming we want to build healthy soil in the school that will grow food for students in the school and teach many students about permaculture.

Bilaha Wafula is 15 years old and a student at Koyonzo Girls Secondary School. She is from  a very poor family and her mother suffers from illness. Its  our appeal that Bilaha gets a sponsor to enable her to continue with her education to meet her dreams.

Bilaha's father invited us to go to rebuild their land which was so acidic that nothing could grow  in that land because of many years of chemical fertilizers use. It is the biggest permaculture farm we have in our project. Their Land is now producing food for the family and the land was fenced by our donors. This land is now the role model where people come and learn about permaculture farming.We are happy because the family is now eating organic food from this farm.

Bilaha she is hard working girl who will help us to initiate permaculture farming that will revitalize the soil and create school food security in her school.

Gloria Wanyonyi is ten years old and a daughter to Jean Nafula Maloba who is a widower with six children. Both her and her mother have appealed for education sponsorship that will cater for education needs of Gloria in her school. The poverty level has handicapped this widower that she cannot provide enough for her six children.

If Gloria gets a sponsor this will be relief to the family who struggle to educate the children. Gloria is the only girl in this family. Jean is the woman who helped our organization to start permaculture in her village for first time.

Gloria told us she hopes to introduce permaculture farming in her school that will be source for the community to receive fresh produce and facilitate sustainable gardening practices.

We shall be happy to see that Gloria get sponsor for her educational dream.