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Permaculture
Growing resilient ecosystems through food, water, energy and biodiversity.
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Assalam Community Foundation, Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
A Living PEACE Village in Zanzibar where traditional knowledge becomes regenerative living, community resilience and practical inspiration for the future.
01 / A living culture
Enter Zanzibar through the voices, music and shared rhythms that carry its living heritage.
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02 / Why We Exist
Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
Local wisdom.
Global solutions.
We believe every community already holds the wisdom it needs.
Our mission is to help rediscover it, strengthen it and share it with the world. Born in the 1,000-year-old fishing village of Kizimkazi, Zanzibar, and inspired by one of the world's oldest living coastal civilizations, Assalam brings together traditional wisdom, regenerative living, education and community leadership to develop practical solutions for a changing world.
The shift
From Isolated Projects to Regenerative Communities
Welcome to the PEACE Village.
Today's challenges are deeply connected. We believe the response should be too. PEACE Village is a place where people, nature, culture, and livelihoods grow together. Children learn by cultivating the land, women build local enterprises, traditions become opportunities for the future, and tourism supports community life. Rather than creating separate projects, we nurture one living system where each part strengthens the others.
Community knowledge in living practice · Zanzibar
03 / The PEACE Framework
The world often looks to the future for solutions. We look to our roots.
Along the Swahili Coast, generations developed ways of living that strengthened communities, worked with nature, celebrated beauty and created shared prosperity.
At Assalam, we have distilled these enduring values into the PEACE Framework.
Rather than inventing a new model, PEACE reinterprets living traditions for the challenges of the 21st century. While rooted in Zanzibar, it is designed to help every community rediscover and strengthen its own cultural and ecological wisdom.
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Education
Learning by doing, sharing and living together.
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Art
Architecture, craftsmanship, music, storytelling and the art of everyday life.
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Community
Ubuntu, belonging, participation and local leadership.
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Empowerment
Women, enterprise, dignity and sustainable livelihoods.
Swipe to explore all five pillars
04 / Living PEACE Village
A place where ideas become reality.
Architecture, ecology, learning, heritage and livelihoods work together here as one connected PEACE system.
01Built environment
Earth House
02Built environment
Makuti Architecture
03Built environment
Renewable Energy
04Living systems
Rainwater Harvesting
05Living systems
Food Forest
06Living systems
School Gardens
07Knowledge and heritage
Mobile Library
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08Knowledge and heritage
Spice Route Museum
09Knowledge and heritage
Sawa Ensemble
10Community and opportunity
Journey Theatre
11Community and opportunity
Amphitheatre
12Community and opportunity
Women's Workshop
Each experience opens a detailed page and shows how it contributes to the wider PEACE framework.
Explore the Village05 · Impact
Stronger communities. Healthier ecosystems. Knowledge carried forward.
We measure success not only in numbers, but in stronger communities, healthier ecosystems and knowledge passed to the next generation. Each figure below keeps its original scope and reporting period.
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Direct beneficiaries
Across Assalam's work · since 2017
1,202,000
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Indirect beneficiaries
Kept separate from direct reach · since 2017
4,500,000
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Farmers trained
Regenerative agriculture and climate resilience
500+
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Permaculture gardens
School and community learning sites
20+
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Trees planted
Across Assalam's work · through June 2026
10,000+
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Learners engaged
Mobile Library and cultural workshops
15,000+
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Women and youth trained
Leadership, business mentoring and technical skills
3,500+
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Cultural participants
Events, workshops and exhibitions · since 2017
68,000+
06 · Stories
1,202,000
direct beneficiaries.
1,202,000 stories.
Scale matters. So does the dignity, voice and lived experience of every person within it. Human stories keep the impact personal.
Explore Human StoriesSource: Assalam Community Foundation organization-provided figures, updated July 2026. Stories are published only with editorial and safeguarding review.
Choose your journey
Real voices. Living knowledge. Many ways in.
Watch a curated selection from the official Assalam Community Foundation channel. Each path keeps three films; swipe, scroll or use the arrow controls to explore.
Visit the YouTube channel01
Who We Are
Stories of Assalam, Zanzibar heritage and travelling with purpose.
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Explore Our Village
Eco Village
An introduction to Assalam through its campus, community and eco-village.
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Community
First-person stories that connect community impact to individual lives.
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Education
School life, learning journeys and education beyond the classroom.
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Women
Empowerment
Women’s journeys, enterprise and economic agency.
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Swahili Heritage
Living traditions, music and Zanzibar’s cultural memory.
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Regenerative Living
Food
Permaculture practice, resilient food systems and land restoration.
07 / Academy
Learn by Living.
Build by Doing.
PEACE Villages Academy offers immersive learning experiences where education meets real life.
Choose a pathway to message our learning team on WhatsApp.
More information
Not sure which Academy pathway fits?
For upcoming dates, pricing, reservations or help choosing a pathway, message the PEACE Villages Academy team on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp +255 776 143 28408 / Network
One village today.
Many tomorrow.
A network rooted in place and open to communities adapting the PEACE approach through their own culture, ecology and knowledge.
Explore Build YoursAssalam in the world
Knowledge moves through relationships.
Living village
Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
Cultural connection
Istanbul Swahili Culture Centre
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Your community, shaped by its own place
Network · Partners
Change grows through collaboration.
Our work is strengthened by local and global organizations that share a commitment to resilient communities and regenerative futures.
09 / Build Yours
Build Your Living PEACE Village
We don't want to build villages around the world. We want to help communities build their own.