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| Training Courses at the GreenHand Field School, Aceh |
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| The GreenHand Training system |
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| During GreenHand Trainings participants learn Permaculture strategies and techniques through hands-on building of food production systems and infrastructure. Balancing theory with practice, they apply the training directly to their village and / or field school models.
Aspects of GreenHand Permaculture trainings include:
- Permaculture and Sustainable Community Design
- Patterns in Nature and Methods for Design
- Houses, Water Supply and Waste Management
- Soil Improvement
- Seed Saving and Nurseries
- Home and Community Gardens
- Farms
- Forests, Tree Crops and Bamboo
- Integrated Pest Management
- Animal Systems
- Aquaculture
- Appropriate Technology
- Cooperatives and Enterprise development
- Principles and Practices of “Fair Trade after Aid”
The GreenHand Permaculture Strategy
The GreenHand Permaculture Strategy divides the landscape into five zones. For each zone, the GreenHand program provides a set of design strategies so that communities can develop their villages using locally available resources, best practices and skills. The specific techniques for each of these zones helps people prioritize development strategies to ensure basic food security as soon as possible without hindering pressing reconstruction needs. The GreenHand Permaculture zones are:
- Zone 1: Home or family gardens
- Zone 2: Villages
- Zone 3: Small farms around villages
- Zone 4: Semi-wild land surrounding villages
- Zone 5: Conservation zones
Who can benefit from the GreenHand Field School program?
The GreenHand program is designed to supply the training, tools and expertise needed to help tsunami survivors assist themselves in rapidly achieving aid independency.
Specially designed courses, products and consultation services are available for:
- NGOs and international agencies
- Community organizers
- Government workers & agencies
- University students
- Women’s organizations
- Field staff and outreach officers
- Community groups
- Schools (any level)
- Farmer’s organizations
Where are the trainings held?
GreenHand trainings are held regularly on site at the GreenHand Field School, contact us for our current schedule. Trainings can also be conducted on-site at projects throughout the region. |
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Training offered by GreenHand
Four different training systems are available:
1. Training in special components of Permaculture
These are topic specific courses, specially designed to suit your program’s needs. Choose topics that are relevant to your project or community, and we can design your training program. Most topics take approximately 2-3 days to deliver.
- Home and community gardens for food and medicine production
- Organic farming – including System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Soil rehabilitation and conditioning (Tsunami zone rehabilitation)
- Composting (liquid, worms, intensive compost systems etc)
- Community and household waste management
- Natural pest management
- Seed saving, plant propagation and nursery development
- Animal husbandry
- Bamboo treatment and product development (furniture, crafts etc)
- Sustainable house design
- Local resource development and management techniques
- Community agro-forestry
- Wastewater gardens sewage and grey water treatment systems
- Small enterprise development
- Community facilitation
- Principles and practices of “Fair Trade after Aid”
2. Village Development Courses (VDCs)
A 2-week intensive course where participants learn to map out their communities into development zones and about the best practices and techniques for rebuilding sustainably with resources available at hand.
VDCs include a full introduction to all of the above topics as well as the principles and practices of sustainable development and design.
3. GreenHand Training of Trainers (ToT)
A 10-week intensive course designed to develop highly effective field trainers. Participants learn the skills needed to rebuild a community and how to teach VDC courses. Graduates have the capacity to design and
implement community development projects and posses the skills needed to motivate communities in sustainable development. Graduates of this course act as outreach trainers for the program. This course includes a full introduction to all of the above topics as well as:
• Ecology zone management
• Small enterprise development
• Nursery construction and management
• Specialized trainers skills
4. Small and Medium Enterprise Training |
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| Training Options and Rates for 2006 |
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Cost of Training on site at GreenHand Field School
Village Development Courses (VDCs) - 2-week intensive course
- Live-in - accommodation, food and tools provided Rp. 2,000,000
- Day Student - lunch, tools provided Rp. 1,500,000
GreenHand Training of Trainers - 10-week intensive course
- Live-in - accommodation, food, tools provided (Indonesian) Rp. 10,000,000
- Day student - lunch, tools provided (Indonesian) Rp. 7,500,000
- Live-in - accommodation, food, tools provided (non-Indonesian) Rp. 20,000,000
Cost of Outreach Training programs
Daily rate for International Organizations
- Master GHFS staff Rp. 1,000,000
- Trainer GHFS staff Rp. 500,000
- Trainer Freelance Rp. 500,000
Daily rate for Local Organizations
- Master GHFS staff Rp. 500,000
- Trainer GHFS staff Rp. 350,000
- Trainer Freelance Rp. 350,000
Daily rate includes:
- Trainer’s fee
- Trainer’s Perdiem
- Management fee
Daily rate DOES NOT include
- Transport to / from training site for trainer
- LCD projector & laptop rental - Rp. 250,000 / day
- Support products
Responsibility of organization requesting training
- Food and accommodation for trainees
- Workshop space / facilities
- Demonstration site location
- Electricity and any necessary utilities
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For more information or to book a training or consulting contact:
The GreenHand Field School
Desa Lamsujen, Kec. Lhoong, Aceh Besar
Email: gfs@idepfoundation.org
IDEP Foundation
Jl Hanoman No 42 Bali Indonesia
Tel/Fax (0361) 981 504
Email: info@idepfoundation.org
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