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Not only the community in Bilibante, but our Anak Alam school in Kuta is busy making their community participants of these happy events 🫶🏼
In preparation of the festivities tomorrow for Indonesian National Day Yayasan Kebon Sepatu is all out for these activities 🌺 and are so proud of the input of Yulia and Ika🎈
Keep looking for sustainable alternatives....!
www.facebook.com/share/C5q7hk66DSpvWnFq/How to take care of the planet and no more nurseries with plastic bags.
Yayasan Kebon Sepatu will always put the interests of children first and will not be side-tracked by conflicting interests to defend their rights and safety.... Selamat Hari Anak Internasional <3
And how did our team celebrate Hari Anak Nasional on Lombok NTB..... with love, affection and lots of fun <3
👏 congrats 🎉🎈
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We will make you aware.....🌺Make every sip an act of kindness to our Earth. Choose The Only Straw and join the eco-friendly revolution. 🌍💙 #SustainableSips #TheOnlyStraw
Focus on the Re-forestation Grid in cooperation with the UTS...:
www.facebook.com/share/p/xWZWs8Qn9zX5gqs7/Some facts about bamboo:
1.Fast Growth: Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant in the world. It has been recorded at growing 47.6 inches in 24 hours. Some species can even grow over a meter per day under optimal conditions. A new bamboo shoot reaches its full height in less than a year.
2. Oxygen Release: A grove of bamboo releases 35% more oxygen than any other tree out there.
3. Carbon Dioxide Absorption: Bamboo absorbs carbon dioxide at a rate of 17 tons per hectare every year. It can act as a valuable carbon sink given how fast the plant grows.
4. No Fertilizer Required: Bamboo doesn’t need fertilizer to grow. It can self-mulch by dropping its leaves and use the nutrients to grow.
5. Drought Resistance: Bamboos are drought-tolerant plants. They can grow in the desert.
6. Wood Replacement: Bamboos can be harvested in 3-5 years compared to the 20-30 years of most softwood trees.
7. Building Material: Bamboo is incredibly strong and sturdy. It has been used as support for concrete as well as scaffolding, bridges, and houses.
8. Soil Stability: Bamboo has a wide network of underground roots and rhizomes that prevent soil erosion.
9. Natural Air Conditioner: Bamboo cools the air surrounding it by up to 8 degrees in the summer.
10. Invasiveness: Some species of bamboo, especially ‘running’ bamboos, can be invasive due to their extensive root systems, which allow them to spread rapidly. However, not all species are invasive, and with proper management, the environmental impact can be minimized.
📸 Organizer Bamboo Nursery
And yes.... we will be working on different continents, on different projects, but one thing will always be very prominent on our minds..... <3
And then, as every time around and fortunately with all Lombok team members - such a shame the Jawa team could not join.... perhaps next year - with the added new participants on the YKS side, as well as the PT Sasak Studio Sejati side; the newcomers of Anak Alam Director (signing MoU), Mas Sandika of Masata, and Ms. Leoni, whose experience in the Pearl branch is well established and will cooperate in the marketing strategy for the branding and promoting of Rosella and PT Sasak Studio Sejati.
Where are you mom
Dat ziet lekker uit.
Cemara – our back garden for Rosella Sabdarifa and our dear neighbours, Pak Prentah and his wife Rowan, It was good to watch the sunset and be at peace with all Cemara had offered so far. Some Rosella harvest to take back and because of Yulia’s brilliant input regarding a touristy slogan, renaming “Cemara pantai hitam” into Cemara Pantai Rosella” and with that setting a pace for the newly branding marketing of the Rosella products “soon to be launched”. This flower will not only bloom on Lombok, but also in Sumbawa and will actually be part of the Reforestation Grid, which will be enhancing the multi-crop teaching of Mohamad Djaeni and stimulate biodiversity…..
Another aspect of the involvement of the YKS with the Anak Alam school is to stimulate the involvement of the local community. “We have to make sure that there is no reason to assume that “Ex-Pat community” and their children are so privileged and removed from the local population, that this gives reason to widen the gap between ‘The haves and have-nots’, rich versus poor and it is of great importance that there will be an harmonization and cooperation is visible and tangible, creating opportunities for all and setting up projects that will stimulate integration in both communities…”. It will be a probable option to get funding for these one-off projects through personal networks, but also through the social media networks that will draw in supporters of the “Unite rather than Divide” mentality that seems to poison our world at this moment in time, and the aim is to unify these two very significant themes – E.CO-living; i.e. Think Green and Peaceful Co-existence, that will be the shared Mission and Vision of our Foundation Kebon Sepatu with the Anak Alam school.
Exactly one week ago, my feet touched the soil of my fatherland, Belanda after one month of traveling around Indonesia, attending the wedding of my dear foster-daughter Yulia and being very much part of her family from Dompu.... What a wonderful experience!
Ten days of solitude on Lake Toba and unexpected excursions to Medan and Bukit Lawang, where I didn't see any Urang Utangs, but plenty of other species of related families, and a very special experience of the superb Durian - definitely not to be missed; North Sumatra will always be special to me, not in the first place because my parents celebrated their honeymoon there, but because I learnt so much from people who take up the challenge to live in harmony with nature and cannot compromise the wellbeing of this planet....
Back on Lombok only for two days; Of course I was under a certain amount of stress when I decided to return to Lombok for just two days, to see my entire team, plus the addition of people I so much wanted to be part of our organisation, but had not taken the opportunity to officially invite them to join.
To trust any airline under the banner of Lion Air seems to be a calculated risk, and was the actual source of my anxiety whether or not I would return on time! Both Batik Air and Super Air Jet decided to alter their departure schedule, leaving me with some limited options to communicate with the hotel/sjopir to pick me up at the airport, but fortunately – and eventually – everything was resolved.
The programme for the 29th was subsequently very cramped, and after a breakfast meeting with Akhsan and Ibu Dewi, both directors of www.anakalam.org/ , we were introduced to their methodology – Mission and Vision – and their request to join forces with Yayasan Kebon Sepatu. Having clarified the overall strategy of our foundation and the limited resources we could offer them, we discussed the common outlooks in relation to educational principles and how YKS could add content to the school’s curriculum in terms of the environmental care aspects and “zero-waste” implementation. This is currently such an important subject for children – no matter how young – to be acquainted with, particularly when it comes to the execution. For example, we grow vegetables to be consumed and by growing them ourselves we know that we should limit, if not exclude, pesticides and fertilisers; no chemicals are used in these processes, and then they will contain valuable nutrients for them to eat! Yayasan Kebon Sepatu will provide their Rosella Sabdarifa as part of a new marketing strategy for the various products we can produce from the calluses, but it will boost the school’s income by teaching both pupils and teachers how to enhance the reputation of the school, for being and Eco-oriented educational entity.
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Visiting Bukit Lawang was quite different from what I expected, because the main reason I wanted to go there was to see my ancestors, the Urang Utans.... However, what I found were a lot of other kind of monkeys, and two very interesting projects.
The first one was run by a wonderful older couple who had been part of the expeditions of Bukit Lawang's Urang Utans sanctuary, and who now run an Eco-Village, together with some 20 volunteers all over the world. The man has been a community leader for decades and his wife who is my age, runs the kitchen with evident success! I feel that it is because this initiative is run locally by people who manage to inspire their community with such love for nature, that it is almost obvious that this vision has become part of their day to day life; be one with nature, eat biological, only use seasonal and local products and never use chemicals to grow your vegetables.... Simple, ain't it!
The other project, The Wings Project, is set up by a German Couple and they built an very impressive compound. The two volunteers of their "zero waste" and "Bank Sampa" projects were both German and staying there for a couple of month to explore and contribute their specific talents. The main difference in the two projects was the source of funding of the first project was purely through their own efforts and community, the Wings project however, was realised and is being realised by funding from the West and needs to lean on the first initiative to gain the trust of the local community.
Like so many projects that are generally funded by Western input, there is always this feeling of ... "We have a great idea, and you are going to do it...", and is an old colonial dogma, in my view.
Needless to say, I learnt a tremendous amount 🙂
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