These are some of the legacy projects and businesses that Shaykha Ramala Hubb’Allah has been involved in. This is a sampling of the entirety of her complex and sprawling career; she has a vast and ecological vision and has promised herself to uplift humanity and construct a future in many different ways. Amen.
2013: Online Farmers and Artisans Market (FB Group)
In 2013 Alam-e-Nau founder Ramala initiated and ran for several years an online farmers and artisans market that likewise enabled, connected and introduced many new and some somewhat and a few more established players in the market. This is also where she incubated the idea to start her own herbalist business, BetterBonds.
Link: Online Farmers & Artisans Market, Pakistan. The group is no longer managed by Ramala Hubb’Allah, and appears to not been getting updated frequently.
2008: My Kitchen Garden Project—a Food-Growing Network
(Facebook Group)
In 2008, in anticipation of an economic collapse and adversity and intensity of climate shift, Ramala Hubb’Allah used Facebook to create a food-growing network and invited people from across Pakistan (whoever was online, of course, and online presence was not evenly distributed) to join the network and “start growing food whether you own a pot, or a plot”. The adaptive approach made flexible participation possible; connections were made, the weaker members were supported by the stronger ones, gifts exchanged, donations made and gardens started. Members later reported starting their own businesses, such as beekeeping, inspired by the exhortations and teachings of Ramala.
(Please note that the network was later handed over and ran by an admin who then took charge and gave the network a life of its own.)
Later, Ramala started other drives about seed-saving and the plantations of food forests, all of which also took off. She was disabled herself and remained bed-bound while taking care of her child, and was not able to participate much herself.