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Commenced:
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01/08/2007 |
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Submitted:
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15/02/2011 |
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Last updated:
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23/10/2015 |
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Location:
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PO Box 14, Karat Konso, SNNPRS, ET |
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Phone:
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+251 912 21 46 87 |
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Website:
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www.permalodge.org |
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Climate zone:
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Dry Tropical |
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Back to Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge
Project: Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge
Posted by Abdur-Rahman McCausland about 13 years ago
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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