In the last years the work towards creating an effective education programme has become increasingly more concentrated and complex. In this context, 2010, became the year where the feet of the Global Campus arrived on land. The core question always at the forefront is how to create an education programme that resonates with the pattern of a healed earth, one that teaches about models of peaceful living that are as yet not lived or experienced by most of us as human beings. How can an education programme be precise and inclusive, while at the same time global, replicable and without compromise?
These are just some of the questions embraced by the Global Campus in its research in what makes peace knowledge empowering and what knowledge do peace workers, particularly living and working in crisis areas, need to feel empowered to carry out their work for the world.
Without doubt, peace knowledge that lives up to the necessities of the world in its current state must be relevant to the experiences and demands of our global students. This means, in practice, that all the project areas in Tamera are activated and participating in the education prgramme. The matrix of life and global healing is revealed through inter-connected training in alternative technologies, ecology, water management – and as the core source of peace knowledge – a profound understanding of the human being as a global being. All of these elements are vital building blocks in creating autonomous, durable and effective life models.  
In 2010 we saw the largest and most varied intake of students in Tamera – with over 100 students, 16 countries represented and often with 4 or 5 active languages. The subjects varied from basic community building, a leadership course with Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels, EDE, music course with Yair Dalal, permaculture and water landscapes with Sepp Holzer, solar technology with Jurgen Kleinwachter, special 'micro bio-gas' system design courses - and all relating to research and work that is already being carried out in Tamera. The key to the education in Tamera is exactly this – that the educational element is always integrated in to what we are already doing. Gaining and sharing relevant knowledge becomes part of life.
A new addition to the education programme in 2010 was the Scholarship Fund. One of the greatest intentions of the Global Campus is to offer this education to those who live and work for peace in crisis areas. Huge numbers of peace workers around the world are working alone, in extremely dangerous and impoverished situations, and without international awareness or support. The aim of the Scholarship Fund is to support those dedicated people to have access to the education we offer in Tamera.
In its first year the Scholarship Fund was able to financially support:

2 representatives of the Holy Land Trust, Palestine to take part in the Leadership Course.
4 members of Poesia Samba Soul, Brazil to take part in the Bio-Gas Course.
6 members of the peace community San Jose de Apartado, Colombia to take part in the Bio-Gas Course, Permaculture Course and Leadership Course.
1 member of Otepic Environmental project, Kenya to take part in the Bio-Gas Course and Permaculture Course with Sepp Holzer.

The education was much richer for those who took part, gave their time to learn, and their time to share their knowledge. It has been an honour to witness how dedicated they are to their projects and place in the world.
We also thank all those who have supported the Scholarship Fund in 2010 and we ask you to please carry on doing so in 2011.
As well as those we could financially support there were many more who we could not support this year.
In 2011 we want to give even more people the opportunity so that peace knowledge in creating living models can become accessible to all those who seek it.


 

Each year the amount of peace workers from crisis and impoverished areas of the world who wish to take part in the education programmes offered at Tamera are greatly increasing. For many, the relevant, profound and complex education and training offer the possibility not only of a change in perspective for their own lives, but also very real solutions for their families, neighbourhoods, communities and organisations. Knowledge and training is empowerment, and for those who experience the very daily reality of conflict and violence it is also a matter of survival. Building autonomous models that do not destroy, but instead support the regeneration of our planet and us as human beings is an essential element.    
We thank all those peace workers who have committed themselves already to completing the Monte Cerro peace education.
To support more and more peace workers from crisis areas to take part in this education we need financial support.
 

There are many ways in which you can financial support a student to study at the Global Campus Tamera. This includes regular monthly or annual donations to general Scholarship Fund or donations to specific students.
For more information please contact the coordinator of the Scholarship Fund:
Kate Bunney: klbunney.igf(at)tamera.org

The following students of this year's Global Campus still need your financial support:

Favela da Paz, led by Claudio Miranda, is a project situated in Jardim Ângela, a favela (slum) in São Paulo and one of the most brutal neighbourhoods in the world. For more than twenty years Claudio and his friends have been working together to transform pain and poverty into hope through the joy of art and music.  They run the successful band Poesia Samba Soul and a cultural project which offers hundreds of young people a perspective of life beyond drugs and violence through the possibility to study music, filmmaking and recording.
A friend of the project since 2009, Claudio and other members of Poesia Samba Soul have participated in Global Campus events in Tamera and Colombia, as well as the 2010 Grace Pilgrimage in Bogotá.  Members of Tamera have visited and collaborated with his project in São Paulo.  Through his contact to the global community Claudio developed a vision for the “Favela Da Paz” (“slum of peace”).  For the development and manifestation of this dream he needs the support of people who share his global vision, therefore five people from “Poesia Samba Soul” will have the chance to come to Tamera and to study this summer.

What we have received                       5000  Euros

What we still need                             7069  Euros

Located in one of the most violent areas of the world, the village of San José de Apartadó has taken a radical stand in its commitment to create a peace community. They do not tolerate weapons or violence in their village and they refuse to cooperate with any of the warring factions. Since its inception in 1996, 200 members of this community have been killed.  The peace village has become a role model for other peace initiatives in Colombia through its determination and courage to refuse to comply with violence.
Tamera has had a close relationship with this peace village for years, including many visits, collaborations and education times at both locations, the last of which was the Grace Pilgrimage in Bogotá followed by a gathering of the Global Campus in Mulatos, a model university and village built in the middle of the jungle in Colombia.
This summer, ten members of the community will join the Global Campus, beginning the next step of cooperation between the projects and a continuation of the profound love story of the emerging planetary community.

What we have received                      20500  Euros
What we still need                            20639  Euros

In one of the most violent cities affected by Mexico’s drug wars a group is coming together to create a peace community.  Faced with the situation of the children and the youth in the area that grow up with no perspective for the future, they created “Pi Pao Angelito de los Niños”, bringing inner-city children to the countryside and offering them tools towards peace, connection to nature, and positive alternatives.  They are also creating a city garden mainly based on permaculture principles. Members of the community are in the process of looking for land to live and work on, towards creating a center for light and hope in this country of strong conflict.  Rosa Belia Sánchez Ochoa, one if the founders of the Peace Community, is a Body-Mind Instructor and the Torreon director for Río Abierto, an internationally practiced system for human development based on integrated spiritual work to break free from cycles of fear and distrust and explore human potential. Rosa Belia first came to Tamera in 2009, and since then members of both communities have traveled and collaborated in education times at both sites.  This year five of the founding members return to Tamera, looking forward to connect to the Global Community and participate in a field of mutual support, education and nourishment for people working on the issues of our times.

What we have received                     4000  Euros
What we still need                         13569  Euros

The Barefoot College and Tamera are long time cooperation partners, members of Tamera have visited the project in India and one of the leaders of the Barefoot College, Vasu, was present at the first conversation about the idea of the Global Campus during the Summer University in Tamera in 2006.
The Barefoot College provides basic services, education and solutions to rural communities in India with the objective of making them self sufficient and sustainable. The main issues are solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, people’s action, communication, women’s empowerment and wasteland development. The education in solar technology has extended around the world; women from villages around the world come to the Barefoot College for training.
Bata is of the second generation of the Barefoot College.  She grew up in the project, studied outside, and returned to continue the work of her father in the Media Agency.  Since 2006 she has served as a professional film maker, has made 24 short films, and has travelled to Africa and other international Barefoot College satellite stations, places where the women trained in solar technology return to implement their new skills.

What we have received                     300  Euros
What we still need                         2814  Euros

Born and raised in Northern Kenya, Philip’s life of service is a response to the situation of his country.  All around him he sees the struggle for survival: people have little opportunity for education, small plots of land, and limited access to water.  Inspired to find a different path, to help his people have a better life, Philip manifested opportunities for education.  He studied at an agricultural college in Kenya and went to the USA to learn about Bio Intensive farming.  
Philip founded the OTEPIC project in 2003, using his knowledge to train other people and creating a small organic garden.  They now train hundreds of farmers every year; many of the participants are women. OTEPIC’s projects span far beyond agricultural: tree nurseries and reforestation; practical workshops for making soap, solar cookers, and brickets from local materials for cooking fuel; programs for youth and street children and health education for HIV awareness and other issues.  Last summer Philip participated in the Global Campus for three months and learned new skills towards ecological, technological and social solutions for the future. He immediately translated this new knowledge to his region, sharing his learning through training programs for others.  He hopes to develop a water landscape according to the methodology of Sepp Holzer, complete with lakes for water retention and an edible permaculture landscape.

What we have received                       1800  Euros
What we still need                             1414  Euros