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Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge
Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge
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Commenced:
01/08/2007
Submitted:
15/02/2011
Last updated:
23/10/2015
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PO Box 14, Karat Konso, SNNPRS, ET
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+251 912 21 46 87
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www.permalodge.org
Climate zone:
Dry Tropical





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Update on progress at Gocha Primary

Project: Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge

Posted by Alex McCausland over 12 years ago

We made another visit to Gocha Primary to check on progress since we began implementataion there in July. Results were surprising...

We made another visit to Gocha Primary on September 10th to see if they had progressed with their garden. I really wanted to get a photo of water in the tank. The problem is that every time it has rained they have been immediately using the water, not for their garden but for mixing mud to re-wall their class rooms. This is actually fantastic as their class rooms were in a pitiful condition and this is a fantastic outcome of us having built the tank at Gocha. When we previously visited the school piles of walling clay were sat around the school yard doing very little. They had been there for a long time as they had even started to get eroded away. In the last few weeks though the community have wasted no time in using up almost all of that mud at top speed, because they have water to mix it with!

They have re-walled 5 class rooms on the interior only and 6 on the exterior as-well so a total of 11. A quick calculation: about 15 loads of mud have been mixed, and to mix each load twice requires about 600L of water so a total of 9,000L, which means the tank has now filled up full twice and a little bit more as the tank has 4000L capacity.

Pics here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150294584184069.347276.65972749068&l=584131c2af&type=1

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