We are witnessing profound impact from all the project we are running, from self defence for girls and women and transformation of harmful patriarchal practices in communities, to better communication, more harmony amongst family members, neighbours and communities and people falling in love with their gardens, and thus the earth. Participants in our programs not only gain valuable life skills, but learn stress reduction methods that help them to have happier, more peaceful lives.

 

We are currently contemplating the following quote from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, with which we feel strongly aligned :  “A 1994 statement from the Indigenous Environmental Network puts it best: Western science and technology, while appropriate to the present scale of degradation, is a limited conceptual and methodological tool – it is the “head and hands” of restoration implementation. Native spirituality is the ‘heart’ that guides head and hands … Cultural survival depends on healthy land and a healthy, responsible relationship between humans and the land. The traditional care-giving responsibilities which maintained healthy land need to be expanded to include restoration. Ecological restoration is inseparable from cultural and spiritual restoration, and is inseparable from the spiritual responsibilities of care-giving and world-renewal.”