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‘Treating grey water with Bananas!

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It took us long days and many miles to arrive in Brasilia, the modern capital of Brazil. From Brasilia, there were yet 50 more kilometres to travel. This time, we were visiting a community in the middle of the Cerrado’s* heart called Ananda Vasundhara. The community belongs to a social, economic and spiritual movement named Ananda Marga** founded in India, in the decade of the 1950’s.

As part of this movement, the community adopted a socioeconomic model called PROUT, acronym for Progressive Utilization Theory. PROUT is an alternative to the capitalist and communist systems with its theory based on five essential concepts brought to the reach of all: food, with the local production of fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains; clothes, with also the local production of fibres and fabrics; education, with alternative schooling methods; health care, with alternative healing centres; and housing, with bio-construction.

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