Even more about us....
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to Empower ourselves and others through sharing skills and knowledge that promote healing and living in harmony with the Earth.
Our Guiding Principles
• We work with unprocessed natural and recycled materials to create beautiful and healthy structures that are earth friendly.
• We are a women's collective and seek to empower ourselves with employment and the skills to build homes.
• We are a collective that is human friendly: recreating our concepts of work to prioritize respect and care for our hearts, our bodies and our children while we work together. We create a work environment that nurtures us.
• All our events are child and mother friendly with quality childcare always provided.
• We seek to do our business in a non-capitalist spirit. We keep the cost of natural building affordable by keeping our wages low, offering our workshop for barter, building for people with low-income as much as we can.
• We are structured non-hierarchically. Each member is equally valued and has equal say in decision making.
• We use the teachings of Non-Violent Communication to create a peaceful, mutually respectful and revolutionary harmonious group process.
• We work together to make this up as we go, nurturing a creative, inventive and courageous spirit in us all!
Do you love what you've seen here and want to support the building revolution?
Your donations will be put to good use!
The Mudgirls as an entity is not-for-profit. Although individual Mudgirls earn a wage for work, we all volunteer countless hours to running the collective. If you would like to support us with a donation, it would be applied to the cause of your choice. Options include sponsoring a participant who would otherwise be unable to learn from us, purchasing safety equipment, building for someone in need, or covering administration costs.
If you are interested in helping out, contact mud.girls.cob@gmail.com for more information.
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We are a network of women who build natural structures for ourselves and each other, as well as helping others build their own.
We specialize in building with cob, as well as other natural material such as strawbale, driftwood, adobe, cordwood and recycled materials like glass, car tires, glass bottles and more.
There are two overlapping collectives within the network – one, a bartering collective that is local to Lasqueti, and a second that is worker-run and for-hire which includes women in Courtenay and Nanaimo, and on Denman, Lasqueti and Saltspring Islands.
The second collective is a consensus-based, non-hierarchical collective of women that support each other to gain training and employment.
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