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University Environmental Club &
Children Love Bird Club
March 2004
In March of 2004, 15 students from the Environmental
Club at Rankampang University in Bangkok came to
Whispering Seed to hold a 2 week camp for children in the local area. During
the time, the university students
also had the opportunity to experience a sustainable way of living on the
farm.
With no electricity, no running water, no flush toilets, taking a bath in
the river, they were able to experience
an alternative to life in Bangkok.
During the 2 weeks, we worked with children coming
from three local villages. The first project was with
Dek Rak Nok, Children Love Bird Club from Issan in western Thailand. They
came and worked with the children
doing two activities, the river detective and bird watching.
The River Detective
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We went to the
local river to explore the health of our river. By collecting and identifying
plants and animals of all shapes and sizes, we were able to identify how clean our river was. It was amazing to see all the life in the river which was so easy to overlook in our daily life along the river. |
Bird Watching
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Following the
river detective activity, we went out in the early morning mist to see
what kinds of birds live in the village with us. Once again, we were amazing at the numbers of wildlife surrounding us, beautiful birds of so many colors which we rarely took notice of. |
Making a Mud Brick oven and Pizza!!
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Then we went to the neighbors farm and
built a mud brick oven for them. First we had to hand make (and feet make) the bricks from mud, water and rice husk. Once the bricks were finished, we formed the oven and then did a final plaster over it. Once the oven was dry, we learned how to make pizza and banana bread and baked it in the oven!!! |
 relaxing in the river |
again at our new farm for another camp to learn
about natural house building & to work with the local children.
     
    
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