Paula Paananen
Paula Paananen trained as a social scientist and has spent her career working in the area of community development. Since being awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2004, her work has focussed on using horticulture as a tool to assist in rehabilitation and skills building. She has developed several therapeutic garden programs in addition to the Paananen's 5 acre permaculture home site.
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Ian Paananen
Ian Paananen has spent his career working as an Agricultural scientist and has run a successful consulting company for the past 16 years. His technical skills in horticulture complement his agroecological approach
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Paula & Ian's two teenage children are also involved, and do their bit for the Project
Gabbie Paananen Gabbie lending a hand at a youth centre at Kayunga, north of Kampala.
Gabbie contributes her creative skills by helping design training materials and helps on the ground by running games for the community children. Her recent ice cream stall at the October 2012 MacMasters Beach Markets raised $250 for the 2013 Project. Using her illustration skills, Gabbie designed brochures for the project and the One Passionfruit Project logo |
Liam Paananen Liam does his laundry in the al-fresco laundromat
Liam is 13, and shares the Ugandan kids' passion for soccer. Finding it not much fun to play with their hand made soccer balls, made from tightly wrapped plastic shopping bags, Liam made it his mission to raise funds to buy some soccer balls and take them with him in 2013 - and collected $500. He'll need pumps and inflation needles too. Liam raises a bearded dragon, turkeys, quail and chickens as well as playing table tennis in the Gosford comp. |