SEED Trust - South Africa

The SEED (Sustainable Enterprise for Enabling Development) Trust was established in 1993 as a response to the poverty, unemployment, conflict and inequity that affect the lives of millions of people in South Africa, and which constitutes a threat to the well-being of society as well as to other life. SEED was formed as a Trust to work towards developing a healthy and equitable society in balance with the natural environment.

SEED is working nationally on issues of primary healthcare, including HIV/AIDS and community participation processes, ecological agriculture and inter-governmental co-operation. The beneficiaries of this work are small scale farmers, grass roots community groups and NGOs working in primary healthcare.

The SEED Trust works with men’s groups in KwaZulu Natal; they are usually the perpetrators of gender based violence, and working only with women often provokes more gender violence unless men are assisted to find new expressions of their masculinity. A focus on men is a different way of allowing space for women to establish their strengths.

The work of the Trust is conducted by board members, volunteers and project leaders. The SEED Trust is also a founding member of the African Biodiversity Network (ABN).

Contact:
Ms. Haidee Swanby
Tel: +27 (0)21 712 1331
Cell: 082 459 8548
haidee@polka.co.za

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Gaia Learning Centre

2008 Programme of Events.

A range of workshops and evenings, to inspire and strengthen our relationship with the natural world and influence the choices we make in our daily lives.

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Wild Law Workshop - 26-28 September - with the Environmental Law Foundation and the UK Environmental Law Association.

Earth Ethics Series

Summaries from recent Gaia Evenings.

Zero Carbon Britain - by Peter Harper

Restoring the Mythological Paradigm - by Jules Cashford

The Colombian Amazon: An Indigenous Peoples' Journey - by Dr. Martín von Hildebrand

Changing America's Environmental Laws - by Andrew Kimbrell.

Science's Changing Myth - by Prof. Brian Goodwin.

Countdown: Life on a Hotter Planet - by Mark Lynas.

A New Relationship with the Living Earth - by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.

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