Kirin

Activities: Multiple Program Types
Countries: France / Germany / Poland

We are a group of family and friends who started an adventure by creating a eco community and animal sanctuary. Our non profit association was founded on the initiative of people who want to build a new model of informal education, to support people to become resourceful and independent, ecologically aware and philanthropically active. The mission of our association is to make a change in people's life and attitude, to encourage their awareness and participation in ecological living, communitarian spirit, animal welfare, philanthropic work and personal and spiritual development. We focus on constant development through innovative and unconventional methods of work and learning. We believe that through education, self development and cooperation we can change our fate and the fate of many others. By doing so, once day we will wake up in a better world, where no one is used, unfairly treated, excluded or worse. We organize various informal activities such as: philosophy and psychology lessons, small conferences, workshops, language learning classes, sport classes, meditation classes, martial arts and Tai chi.

We are a unique place, where extraordinary things happen. We inspire and help in many ways and in different fields. Among our achievements there are programs and actions that helped hundreds of people and animals. We encourage people to help others: a philanthropy based not only on giving money or offering ready-to-go solutions. But rather getting to the roots, deepening into understanding social structures and human behaviour, with the aim of improving attitudes and finding new and creative ways of thinking for a better long term evolution. We focus with expertise on physical and psychological health and wellbeing, to the point that we are able to stimulate incredible transformations in the people who wish to improve their life. Our basic common-living rules: No alcohol, no drugs, no tobacco and no violence.
Our centre is strictly vegetarian and vegan: no meat, no fish, no insects are eaten.

We look after rescued animals, at the present time our little family is taking care of:
6 dogs and 5 cats
around 100 birds
40 chickens
many fish (hard to count!)

Our work is directed to sustainability, improving our organic garden. Also DIY and recycling are big pillars of our work. In our place we promote sustainable practices where recycling and reusing become part of the daily life. We improve everyday in order to have a minimum impact in the nature. Among our team we have professionals of different areas such as psychology, nutrition and fitness.
We work on developing methods and practices for people to improve their health in an holistic and organic way.

For those who are interested we are open for new members to become part of the team ;)