One Home Journey Begins in Zimbabwe

By Rama Mani and Alexander Schieffer
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Nov 1, 2024

“Mupo, or the universe, is the oxygen, if we cut down the trees we can’t breathe the fresh air. Even the grasses can die, and our animals can not find where they can graze. If we cut down the trees, even we are going to die. Mupo is our life” – Vha Venda, elder farmer from Tshidzivhe

Dzomo la Mupo work to preserve and revive cultural diversity in South Africa. Based in Venda in Limpopo, S.A. The organization accompanies local communities in ecological governance by reviving indigenous seeds, facilitating and encouraging intergenerational learning, and rebuilding confidence in the value of indigenous knowledge systems. Protecting Zwifho Natural Indigenous forests plays a vital role in Indigenous living; hence, it is core to the work of Dzomo la Mupo.

The organization was founded in 2007 by Mphatheleni Makaulule in response to concerns that are stimulated through discussions with elders about how they can bring about necessary cultural and ecological revival and bring back indigenous life practical life systems

Dzomo la Mupo’s (DLM) mission is to protect Nature in all its forms and their mission is for the current and future generations to raise a voice to protect and restore the critical ecosystems of their territory in the way that their ancestors were doing long ago and also to establish Dzomo la Mupo’s ( Voices of Mupo) in all areas of its work.

The organization aims are driven by three special aims:

Conserve the Ecosystem services – Particularly indigenous forests, rivers, wetlands, and sacred natural sites/forests through establishing tree nurseries.

Preserve and recuperate – Indigenous Knowlege Systems of Seeds and Healthy Food Systems- Through food sovereignty protecting indigenous locaal seeds, establishing and by reviving traditional agricultural knowledge and indigenous farming systems.

Transfer the Indigenous Knowledge System of Cultural Biodiversity – Through Intergenerational learning in schools by working with elders, teachers, curriculum advisors, and academic research students.

Learn more about the One Home Journey 7 years for 7 generations below.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The “One Home Journey 2024-2030 – 7 Years for 7 Generations”

One Home Journey started in Zimbabwe

The call of our time is to put the house in order!

At home within ourselves, at home in our community, at home on earth: Awareness and inspiration for an intact home, ideas on how the home can be a healthy living space for all, this is what the OneHomeJourney creates, which Rama Mani and Alexander Schieffer started with a peace march in Geneva on 21st  September 2024, the International Peace Day. On 22nd  September, they were welcomed by indigenous leaders, earth artists and peacemakers at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village (Khwakaya Lendaba Cultural Village) in Soweto, South Africa. One of the messages given by the Elders was: Connect! Connect! – Connect with each other and with the world around you.

In Soweto Cultural Village

In Zimbabwe, the first Earthweek began on 23 September as part of the One Home Journey – a seven-year tour to ‘Homes for Humanity’ in every country in the world. At the Catholic University in Zimbabwe, Rama and Alexander laid the foundation for a Unity Park by planting trees. In the ‘Integral Kumusha’ initiative, a community that lives and works according to the African philosophy of Ubuntu, principles and solutions for a peaceful and regenerative future for seven generations were explored.

The next stops on the One Home Journey are Lesotho, Südafrika, Rwanda, DR Congo, Uganda and Kenya. The question guiding the One Home Journey: How can we transform our divided world into a united home for the indivisible family of all life on Earth? Earth Citizens are putting action behind the words of the UN 2030 Agenda, in which all our governments have pledged to ‘transform the world’… ‘by 2030’… to ‘a world free from poverty, hunger, disease and want, where all life can flourish’. In each country, Homes for Humanity (which can be families, associations, businesses, schools or universities, arts groups, co-operatives or public institutions) are the ‘incubators for social, economic, environmental and cultural renewal’.

The journey is also conceived as an UnivEARTHsity ) of collective wisdom and benevolence to reach a critical mass of transformative local initiatives on a planetary scale. As a non-academic university that is co-built on the go, it is freely open to all citizens of the planet, regardless of age, background or qualification. At the end of each week, people around the world can participate online in the local EarthAgora.

Here’s how you can take part:

  1. subscribe to the newsletter to follow the journey (https://www.homeforhumanity.earth/the-home-for-humanity-newsletter)
  2. get involved in UnivEARTHsity to help shape the collective wisdom base (https://sutra.co/space/jq9ag0/register)
  3. donate to keep the culture of sharing and abundance alive (https://www.homeforhumanity.earth/co-gifting)
  4. talk about the project in your companies, communities, families and share it on your social channels!

For more information visit www.HomeforHumanity.Earth :

If you have further questions or would like to have an interview contact:

alexander.schieffer@homeforhumanity.earth, rama.mani@homeforhumanity.earth

andrea.klepsch@homeforhumanity.earth, mobile +49 171 79 130 82 (H4H Ambassador)

 

All photos copyright: Home for Humanity