SALT offers alternative learning which is deep and transformative. SALT is committed to working with like-minded partners and communities to build examples of alternatives solutions with communities in Kenya and beyond in Africa. SALT accompanies communities through deep and transformative processes based on holistic knowledge systems of the indigenous and local peoples both in schools and with communities. Through community dialogues, ecological maps and calendars and nature experiential learning processes, communities revive their indigenous knowledge and practices rooted in their Earth-centred methodologies. SALT approach is holistic and engages every aspect of humans; inner and outer, secular and sacred, matter and spirit, tangible and intangible, quality and quantity.
Paradigmatic
“The current crises in the world; financial, fluctuations in food and oil prices, the land grabs and the growing evidence of climate chaos are a testimony that we need a radical change in providing the alternatives that are more appropriate for communities and ecosystems. SALT thus has a niche to offer alternative learning which is deep and transformative. SALT is committed to working with like-minded partners and communities to build examples of alternatives solutions with communities in Kenya and beyond in Africa.” - https://saltnet.org/chumvi/about-us/
Integrated
They describe their approach as holistic and integrating various polarities: “SALT approach is holistic and engages every aspect of humans; inner and outer, secular and sacred, matter and spirit, tangible and intangible, quality and quantity.”
Pragmatic
Their practical activities include: “engag[ing] communities through community dialogues, experiential learning, drawing of ecological maps and seasonal calendars around the issues that really affect them. SALT does monthly community dialogues working with farmers, clan leaders, spiritual leaders (Mugwe and Laibon), healers, diviners and seers and custodians of seeds and sacred natural sites.”
They are largely self-supporting financially: “SALT has done most of its work over the years without any external funding. Rather, SALT has been tapping into self-supporting cultural practices: encouraging everyone to share what they can to ensure that everyone, who wants to, can reach the monthly dialogues.”