Jatukik Providence Foundation Partnership Initiative

Ecovillages are urban or rural communities of people, who strive to integrate a supportive social environment with a low-impact way of life. To achieve this, we are integrating various aspects of ecological design, permaculture, ecological building, green production, alternative energy, community building practices, and much more. By creating the first ecovillage living and learning center in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there will be a role model for change that helps eradicate poverty, reduce disparities in living conditions, and manage development in a balanced and sustained manner.

Why an ecovillage?
With the current sporadic war breakouts on the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo, large populations of refugees are now settling into the Bandundu Province. This calls for a new plan for the eco-restoration and re-development of the area. Presently, with this new growth in population, the current practices are creating negative impacts on the region. Our program is addressing these immediate concerns while completing our objectives to evolve this region into a model that ensures a healthy economic and social community for all.

With this new integrated development program, the Jatukik Providence Foundation initiated the first phase with an Eco Village Living and Training Center in Bandundu Province.

This Eco Village Center is located in Kibeti, a village in Sector Sungu, a Territory of Masimanimba in the Bandundu Province. It has a population of about 20,000 people.

It will be situated on 30 hectares of land that borders a river and creek. The local core group for the center will consist of some of the members from the Jatukik Providence Foundation who already have had experience in the promotion of sustainable development and are living in the area.


The center will aim to promote and assist holistic sustainable community development programs while serving as a point of attraction for the wider society. The Center is an affiliate of Earth Rights Institute, a US based member of the EcoEarth Alliance, a worldwide UN NGO Partnership Initiative.

This ecovillage living and training center project plans to be a landmark achievement that will demonstrate the execution of an activity that will not only become a pilot program for the state but to the entire nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This program will be eventually linked to a larger conservation program for the Congo Basin with African Wildlife Foundation and the Bonobo Conservation Initiative.

Photo of our official photographer, Gabriel Linden in Kibeti with an ecovillage member.