A note from the founder

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo hidden and virtually unknown are the tallest waterfalls of Africa; the breathtaking Lovoï Falls, from which our name derives. When I came upon this awesome sight, the power of this waterfall infused me with its strength, and the birth of a movement began, a movement of solutions, healing, and positive help for Mother Africa. Although I left my home in Lubumbashi as a teen, I’ve always had my heart and mind on helping my people. For many years, this came in the form of helping my immediate and very large family; however, as I’ve grown older and wiser, I now understand exactly what my people need. The problems of Africa cannot be fixed with handouts, but by helping people help themselves. The old adage “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach him how to fish, and he’ll eat forever,” is true. As I watched the river winding, pushing, molding, and forming its way through the mountain, I realized that this is how to truly make a difference in my country. The waters gushed through, awakening new life in a place that was once dormant. My goals are to help inspire people to know how to help themselves as they take care of all that Nature has to offer in a sustainable fashion.

Lovoï Sustainable Villages is committed to breaking the poverty cycle forever through the empowering principles of permaculture, an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies, which in turn reduces a society’ s reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that have fundamentally and systematically destroyed Earth’ s natural ecosystems. The first village we are developing is Mwapoleni Village with the Mwapoleni Sanctuary Project in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. At this time, the government is redistributing the land away from the indigenous people...

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