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Tsumeb Etosha School

26/9/2011

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Thanks to Ellen for providing some great photos of the prep work she did with the kids at the Etosha School.  They planted a lot of lucern and built a compost ready for my visit.
Our first day at the school was great.  Its a high school and all of the kids were quite old (most were doing the equivalent of their HSC).  They understood everyhting very well and were eager participants in the garden.

I decided to terrace part of their garden due to a slope, and we built a pond and banana circle, and scribed some keyhole beds to make tomorrow.
The head teacher was a scream.  She lived onsite and was really like a mother to most of the children that boarded at the school.  She had adopted many of them legally.  She had a little Jack Russel dog called Boetie, which means 'mate' in Africans.

she invited a friend of hers and his colleague to join us for the next PDC course I was meant to be giving.  He is a horticultural advisor in Japan and just loved the Permaculture concept.  He joined us for two evenings where I gave some PDC content.  He said he is going to implement Permaculture wherever he goes now.  He is currently working with schools in Africa up North.
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