Let’s Build an Eco-Bungalow!

The Fair Trek Team & World Volunteer Founders welcomed our first group of volunteers last week!

 The  group of 19 young adults and 3 expedition leaders came from the International School of Kuala Lumpur. They discovered our project through World Challenge.  The enthusiastic team of hard workers contributed their blood, sweat, and tears from the 22^st of October to the 25^th.  

The first two and a half days were spent on multiple tasks mostly related to organizing the work site.  Tasks for each day included: separating the good clay bricks from the cracked ones, cracked bricks were smashed into bits and thrown back into the mud pit to make new bricks, half bricks were separated from full bricks, chopping straw, making tool handles, shaping bricks, cleaning up the area, clearing a trail to the bungalow.

Everyone worked hard in a good team ambiance! 

On the 24^th afternoon, the Kuala Lumpur students gave collective games (balls, badminton net and racquets, playing cards, etc), clothes and hygienic products to the local school. Then we all spent the afternoon playing with the 150 Lao, Hmong and Khmu students! We had fun explaining to them how to play UNO!  It was very nice sharing time with the children!

The last day was more dedicated to collecting rubbish all around Long Lao Mai with the village children. In the morning, we installed fifteen bamboo dust bins near the water stations. It was a good opportunity to educate the locals on environmental preservation.