Leeds Met Indonesia 2008
 We are 25 volunteers made up of students and staff from Leeds Met Uni...Anne Schiffer, Carl Flattery, Emma Prince, Emma Royston, Esther Kilner, Gurdeep Singh, Hannah Rippon, Hannah Elson, Kah-Mun Liew, Katie Hill, Lucie Charlton, Nina Wright, Nital Mistry, Rachel Ashworth, Richard Brown, Sarah Roberts, Sian Taylor, Susan McBurney, Thomas Quinn, Wendy Mayfield, Gill Wood, Janet Cochrane, Robbie Cochrane, Phoebe Bozeat and Rupert Bozeat.
On the 28th July we traveled to The kaliandra Foundation, Surarbaya, East Java, Indonesia. We are continuing work started last year and begining new programmes at The Kaliandra Foundation; a non-profit organisation who works for the sustainable use of East Java's natural and cultural resources to provide responsible tourism opportunities.
The projects we are helping with include building a playground for disabled children, making modifications to ecolodges, English teaching to school children and conversation practice with staff of the organisation and an array of tasks relating to responsible tourism. Please read our blog to follow our journey... |
Our latest 5 diary entries
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| 2nd Sep 2008 | ||||
| Rubby's movie | ||||
| Unfortunately the movie Rubby created about our stay in Kaliandra is too large to upload onto the blog site. However, people are welcome to visit me or to send a disc/ stick for me to copy it for them. I am located... | ||||
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64 Words | 51 Reads |  | Read more | |
| 20th Aug 2008 | ||||
| Playground opening | ||||
| After all the hard work of the construction team it was wonderful to see the reaction of the children to our playground. The first group to try out the playground were 45 primary school children, hesitant at first ... | ||||
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399 Words | 97 Reads | | Read more | |
| 19th Aug 2008 | ||||
| Seeking solace from Gibran | ||||
| Having just returned from Kaliandra to the comparatively bleak, rainy, mundane & predictable UK following a grueling 23 hour journey I am feeling exhausted, contemplative & confused.I am also strugg... | ||||
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487 Words | 84 Reads | | Read more | |
| 14th Aug 2008 | ||||
| A Birthday to Remember! | ||||
| Although this blog is a good week or so after my b-day, its better late than never!The celebrations for my 20th birthday celebrations started extremely early on Monday 4th August at 5 am, when stood on a rock up t... | ||||
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475 Words | 93 Reads | | Read more | |
| 13th Aug 2008 - 14th Aug 2008 | ||||
| Champions of the world! | ||||
| Yesterday welcomed the 4th round of the village football tournament. Professionally suited up in my black plimsolls, rolled down work socks and red Kaliandra football kit, i sat in the Subs box as the clock ... | ||||
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452 Words | 98 Reads | | Read more | |
