Bafut Ecovillage

Bafut Ecovillage was founded in 2013 as a place for identifying, nurturing, and equipping Africa’s future leaders with experiences, insights, and tools of partnerships so that African-led solutions are developed as a response to the global crisis. Our team’s principles of upscaling our village to a peace village are based on the understanding that a new framework is needed to rebuild structures of global environmental ethics based on openness, transparency, and interconnectedness and using Permaculture networks to enhance peer-to-peer learning and cross-border collaborations. Working with a selected group of partners, leading academics, and accomplished community leaders in the global north, we have built the capacity of young change-makers who are co-creating adapted technologies and marketing communications solutions. www.betterworld-cameroon.com
Then the war broke out in 2017 and has taken its toll in countless ways. Among the casualties, nature; climate change (desertification, deforestation, pollution).
Bafut Ecovillage won the Gaia Trust Excellence Award as the most inspiring project of GENAfrica in 2015 for turning the tragedy Cameroon’s civil crisis into youth projects saving children from hunger and giving women a voice in land use. We’re now working on the African continent through GEN Africa & NextGEN in developing the Ecovillage Development Program, and running youth exchange, peace/reconciliation, improving natural resource management with local councils involving issues of gender balance.
After the civil war broke out in 2017 we established a project-based learning and networking desk office in Tamera, Southern Portugal with the aim to profile ourselves with like-minded organizations in Europe to give visibility and discoverability in the digital global community to our African Kitchen Revolution Project.
Our European desk is for goodwill organizations to create twin projects and build networks on marketing communications solutions.