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Meet the Team that's making it possible:
 | Shelora Fitzgerald, R.C.C. M.Ed.
Shelora is a high school English and Drama teacher who has been involved with theatre and film since childhood. She is also a Registered Clinical Counsellor who has been active in personal growth over the last 25 years. She is a student and teacher of a Course in Miracles, to which she attributes her abilities as a "miracle worker." She has worked with people confronting all kinds of challenging circumstances, and helped them to transform their lives.
It was while on a spiritual pilgrimage to Spain and Morocco in the summer of 2006 that Shelora discovered the beautiful Berber people in the South of Morocco. On the third day of her trip into the Sahara Desert by camel, she experienced a life-altering revelation. As a result of this vision, she asked M'Barek, a simple Berber man who had been guiding since he was eight years old, if it was possible to get through the desert by camel to Jeruslalem. He agreed it was possble. So she resolved to return to Morocco with a documentary crew and take a caravan of camels through the Sahara to Jerusalem with M'Barek as her guide,
When she received the news of the disaster, it was imperative to save M'Barek's life. Now that that has been accomplished, the next step is to recreate the villages that were destroyed, and create the team that will go to Jerusalem afterwards.
Shelora's guiding vision of a healed world, in which human beings of every background join together to building peace and harmony, remains.
This project is an expression of that possibility for the miraculous transformation of the world that has informed Shelora's whole life.
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| Elke Cole
Elke Cole lives in Victoria and designs, builds and teaches "houses that love you back" . Her background is in architecture with a degree received in Germany. After independently working on home designs in the Comox Valley following her move to Canada, she became involved with Natural Building in 1994. Since then she has designed, built and taught both independently as well as with the Cob Cottage Company, the Down to earth building bee, Cobworks and O.U.R.ECOVILLAGE. She has worked in British Columbia, the US, South India, Tanzania, Germany and Costa Rica. Her work has been groundbreaking in introducing Natural Building to a wide audience and into the permit process in BC. Please visit www.elkecole.com to find out more. |
|  | Mona Hubinette Mona has been involved in travel for most of her life, doing it herself, or putting it together for others. She has lived in Libera, Kenya, Uganda and India. Born in Sweden. She has owned her own travel agency in West Vancouver as well as been the President of the West Vancouver Rotary Club. In 94 after selling the company she moved to India for a couple of years. Managed GAP Adventures Vancouver for 3 years, and now has started up an adventure division with Personal Travel together with one of the founders of Trek Holidays. She still has a few places to go to however, so the quest continues. She is in the process of forming a new internet company, Mondo Adventures, at this precise moment. |  | Tom Roy Founder, The Kauri Eco-Culture Society Tom lives in Vancouver, his original background is in Film, he studied at the Vancouver Film School. Throughout his short career, he worked on a few documentaries one of which brought him to South Africa to Direct a film about the HIV/AIDS pandemic. While shooting, the humanitarian in him surfaced and he realized he wanted to do more than observe behind a lens. Not long after, he traveled to India and worked with a foundation there to help build an orphanage. He had a very profound experience working with the locals and the children, but having studied some types of natural building he realized the building methods that were being used were inefficient and not cost effective. He developed a keen interest in sustainable design. This brought him to make the decision to start his own foundation (The Kauri Eco-Culture Society), to empower people worldwide through the use of sustainable design. He continues to study and do his part in this global movement. | | | |
more to come....
Shelora Fitzgerald
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