| | | | | John Nzira
Director, Afristar Foundation
John is an inspiringly committed and motivated hands-on permaculture and agricultural food security trainer. A people person with a passion for human resource management and community upliftment, John brings to Afristar superb project management skills, from program conception, fundraising, planning, financial control, and implementation, to follow-up evaluation, monitoring and mentoring. Additionally, John manages the Ukuvuna project focusing on using permaculture to create sustainable urban livelihoods.
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| | | | | Nicholas Heinamann
Afristar Founder and Director, Permaculture Economist & Social Planner
Nicholas is the founder and principal director of Afristar Foundation. His primary passion is developing sustainable development strategies to empower Africans to create an abundant reality. He believes that Permaculture design and planning offers an accelerated platform to reformulate the way we collectively do business on planet Earth, focusing on economic growth within a socially just and ecologically sound framework. Nicholas is responsible for programme conception, fundraising, project management and reporting for all Afristar projects.
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| | | | | Bonita Edwards
Permaculture Artist and Designer
Bonita works with Afristar designing, developing and implementing permaculture programmes and environmental education using art as a tool for communication and empowerment. She has a great love and passion for Africa and enjoys getting involved with people and communities to bring out their highest aspirations. Among other successes, Bonita workshopped the Kutama Sinthumule rural community in Limpopo to develop themes for painting local bus stops. The resulting murals both creatively advertised the Vhembe Biosphere EXPO and revitalized public spaces, transforming plain bus shelters into fabulous displays of community permaculture art, some of which can be seen on this website.
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| | | | | Tina de Waal
Permaculturist & Organic Gardener
Tina works with Afristar on Permaculture training and implementation. She completed her permaculture design course at Wild Rocke farm in 1998, runs her own nursery and develops organic food gardeners in the suburbs. She has a great love for plants and working with children. Tina's greatest exploit to date was creating a garden for the Vhembe Biosphere EXPO in three months in winter.
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| | | | | Lindsay Dozoretz
Permaculture Educator & Food Security Specialist
Lindsay comes to Afristar from the United States as a Congressional Hunger Fellow. She has been involved in food security work and sustainable development projects for over 10 years, and has worked in communities in Brazil, Senegal, Mozambique and the U.S. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate from the Permaculture Institute in New Mexico in 2007. As a permaculture educator, Lindsay facilitates applied permaculture trainings for Afristar, supports the rollout of the SEED program in Gauteng and Limpopo provinces, and has a hand in many other projects, including the Seed Savers initiative, Plan Africa and the development of the Westbourne permaculture site. Lindsay is passionate about enacting positive, creative, small-scale solutions to global problems and is thrilled to be back in Africa!
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| | | | | Paul Barker
Permaculture Designer & Training Facilitator
Paul brings exceptional skill in permaculture design and many years of experience in implementation and training to the Afristar team. He is involved in many different projects, leading permaculture training modules and evaluating designs, as well as contributing his knowledge on medicinal plants and traditional healing.
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| | | | | Elin Lindhagen
Social Process & Community Development Consultant
Based in the U.K., Elin brings a passion for social justice and participatory development to Afristar. Her skills in creative facilitation and community work help to advise Afristar project strategies and her keen skills in observation are an invaluable asset to internal monitoring and evaluation. Elin is also a trained permaculture educator and has been involved in various grassroots community development projects for sustainability around the world.
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