Anya Shats was born in the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine, and made Aliyah to Israel with her family in 1990. She is a group facilitator and completed her Social Work bachelor’s degree at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. For her GLOCAL internship, Anya worked at the Practical Permaculture Institute of Zanzibar, Tanzania. This institute, operating since 2016, provides permaculture education to a wide range of populations, local and international, reaching more than 700 people in Tanzania and worldwide. Anya carried out two projects at PPIZ. The first was designing and executing a monitoring and evaluation program for the Nutritious and Medicinal Garden for Pregnant Women and Mothers project. This included collating qualitative data, analysis, and writing a final report with recommendations. The second project was supporting the inter-organizational restructuring, which resulted in a new structure and board roles, a reconnection to the organizational vision, and planning a long-term goals action plan. 

I am a woman: what’s your superpower? | Anya Shats 

Please meet a powerful group of women who joined the Nutritious and Medicinal Garden for Pregnant Women and Mothers project, at the Practical Permaculture Institute of Zanzibar (PPIZ). The project is divided into two major categories, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part includes education on nutrition, medicinal plants, healthy cooking, and physical exercises. It also explores Permaculture ethics and skills such as soil building, composting, natural paste management, and sack gardens. This was followed by the practical part, implementing Permaculture gardens in public clinics and private homes while creating a production unit. In this picture, you can see the power of a group of women building together a sack garden, a simple home project for maximizing organic food production with limited resources in small spaces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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