The Earth Village Project is a loose collective responding to typhoon Yolandas devastating effects in Leyte province. It begins in Barangay Batug, a small picturesque village in Dulag, Leyte, where we co-design a Learning Village Process that serves to see all participants in the journey as learning partners on the road to sustainability. The Project wishes to create models of self-sufficiency, may it be on the level of the individual, the family, the town, municipality, province or the country. Founded on our legal NGO called One Block for Batug, the quintessential school is built organically, one brick at a time. In this case, the school is made up of seven quadrants of village living, relating to food security, health, nutrition, livelihood, ecological restoration, community process, and learning frameworks. For the months of February and March 2014, the Earth Village Project hosted the building of the Philippines Windship, a typhoon-proof building prototype that uses closed loop waste management approaches, as well as community building or bayanihan (pintakasi in the local Waray) processes. The Earth Village Project is a journey that will likely keep growing and changing as future disasters challenge the Philippines to re-build communities in more and more conscious ways. We hope to invite those who resonate with its key principles to participate in collaborative and inclusive ways, in assisting our people in co-creating the Earth Village dream that many of us are having.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:50:03 +0000
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