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Please help Claudiu achieve his dream learning opportunity!

A campaign by Claude Oprea

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Successfully funded on November 3, 2017
A campaign by Claude Oprea
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  • Contribute $10 or more

    Limited to 40 Contributors

    For every $10 or more you receive a personal thank you email expressing my gratitude, a mini series of travel images and a mention on my website. Limited to 40 contributors.

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  • Contribute $25 or more

    Limited to 25 Contributors

    For every $25 or more you receive a personal thank you email or postcard expressing my gratitude a mini series of travel images and permaculture resources about healthy soils. Limited to 25 contributors.

    1 contributor(s) chose this reward.

  • Contribute $35 or more

    Limited to 15 Contributors

    For every $35 or more you receive a personal thank you email or postcard expressing my deep gratitude a mini series of travel images as well as a selection of permaculture resources on setting up a garden, to seed saving propagation and plant nurseries. Limited to 15 contributors.

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  • Contribute $50 or more

    Limited to 10 Contributors

    For every $50 you receive a personal thank you email or postcard expressing my deep gratitude a mini series of travel images, plus an array of selected permaculture resources as well as a very special book that inspired my work, People and Permaculture by Looby Macnamara. Limited to 10 contributors.

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  • Contribute $100 or more

    Limited to 5 Contributors

    Do you need help with getting clarity on your land project? Is there something personal you would like to gain tools to re-frame and move forward? For every $100 or more receive a two hour permaculture consultancy/mentorship session over skype, with a follow up 1 hour session and my deepest gratitude. To be redeemed not later than October 1st, 2018. Limited to 5 contributors.

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  • Contribute $250 or more

    Limited to 3 Contributors

    For every $250 or more you get a 2 hour permaculture consultancy/mentorship session, client interview, two one hour follow up sessions over a 2 month perios as well as the first draft of a design of your choice and my deepest gratitude. To be redeemed not later than October 1st, 2018. Limited to 2 contributors!

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  • Contribute $500 or more

    Limited to 1 Contributors

    For every $500 or more receive 12 hours mentoring sessions spread over a year, or a reduced price spot (cost of course minus $500 or more contribution) on any PDC course, workshop retreat I will be running from now until December 2019 as well as my deepest gratitude. Limited to one contributor!

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Hello family and friends old and new, I bear exciting news!

I have been granted a spot to assist teach on an extended permaculture design course headed by some of the most inspiring humans alive Starhawk, Robyn Francis, Rico Zook, Jude Hobbs, Clea Chandmal to name a few, as part of the International Permaculture Convergence in India. I need your support to make this long dreamed of opportunity a reality!


The International Permaculture Convergence 2017 brings together active agents of positive change. It is a chance for us to collaborate, exchange knowledge and come up with solutions to the problems we face as a species. We learn to deepen our connection with nature and to work with her rather against her. We  take our observations and weave them into our design to co-create a more hopeful story for our future. All this will take place in India, a magical country in need of healing.


Last year, my partner Nicky and I left the UK and embarked on a journey of exploration, to expand and apply our experience of permaculture and the arts by volunteering on a series of projects in India and Nepal. For more details please visit my website http://www.claudeoprea.com/  


We made some wonderful connections and our hearts and souls are enriched from this valuable time away. However, we are living on a traveller's budget to make it happen. It would mean the world to me to have your support to help me learn from this unique, once in a lifetime opportunity.  


Please dig deep for amazing rewards!


$700 is needed to cover the following expenses:

$550 fee for TA covering my meals and a fee for IPC India

$120 accommodation in a rented tent during the PDC

$30 train ticket to Hyderabad from Mumbai


There are great rewards for your generosity. From mini series of photographs from our travels to permaculture consultancy work, permaculture resources that have influenced my work and an investment opportunity for a spot on one of the PDC's, workshops and retreats I will be offering over the next two years.


Please share this campaign in your networks and with your friends. There are only 25 days to reach my goal. Thank you from the heart for your support in making my dream come true. Thank you to all and especially to We The Trees for creating this wonderful platform to enable very cool projects to manifest! Thank you We The Trees!

Big love to all.

Claudiu