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| November 2005
Activity Report from the GreenHand Field School, Aceh
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The team built new beds and a nursery on the land next to training hall and planted them with long beans, chillies and watermelon. They developed pathways through the site and planted along them. The new toilet/bathing blocks were finished and the structures painted inside and out.
There was a problem with goats from the community entering the grounds through the gate and damaging the gardens. The team built an ingenious two-part gate that slides open for vehicles and has a smaller door for people to enter that closes automatically
Three kinds of trellises were built to enable the team to take advantage of the limited space by growing food crops vertically. The fence around the home garden was strengthened to keep out wild pigs and buffalo, and a new batch of liquid fertilizer was started.
In order to maintain a harmonious relationship with the school's neighbor, the team
built an attractive gate between the two houses and strengthened the living fence around the GFS office.
A storage facility was built beside the toilet block to keep the tools in, but the
expensive ones are always brought back to the office each night when work in the garden is finished.
Accommodation for trainees is challenging as there are few suitable rooms to be rented in the village. Most homes do not have toilets. There is not enough time to built toilet blocks for the community before the next student intake, so the next VDC will be offered to local people and NGO staff. Building toilet blocks is still the team's top priority in this project, firstly to facilitate the billeted students who stay in houses which do not have toilets, and secondly (but most important) to assist local people to improve their way of life and practice better hygiene. The team feels that its mission is to care for the people and care for nature, with projects that keep our land and rivers clean.
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