Another day on the road and 6 more hours of driving to visit our various projects sustained from our volunteer camp located with Bongkud Village. The drive has been worth it and impressive to see the progress that has been made. We are building a community centre, gravity water feed system, micro enterprise initiative for the single women’s group and have located a beautiful new permanent camp location at the end of our jungle trek.

Apologies for the cheesy Directors shots but gives you a feel for the scale of the community centre build.

Our school expeditions and gap year volunteers have dug this out by hand and laid the foundations for a water tank that will deliver fresh spring water to 20% of the community. Next stage will be to make bricks using the techniques we have developed at Camp Kenya from the mud.

Sometimes its the small projects that have impact and the guys have done a great job with this small Kindergarten.

This was a dilapidated shed….it is now a place for the single Mums to meet, make handicrafts, grow vegetables and develop a small micro enterprise.

Thanks for a great lunch (Camp Manager Eve) and great to see the team again.

Great to be back in the field visiting our projects in Borneo. Simon is over from Africa and combined with Matt and Rory we are reviewing all our camps and projects, sharing lessons from across the globe and of course staying in some pretty terrible hotels.

Fendi is having to put up with 4 Directors talking non stop for 6 hours driving every day.

The Kindergarten build is coming along well in Tinangol village but need to turn up the heat and raise essential funds.

Camp Manager Zul and his team have our long house looking spectacular and we have decided to build an additional long house in the same location to accommodate more volunteers and bring more hands to our projects in the area.

If you think our bedrooms in the long house look basic….you should see the Hotel Rory has booked us into! Out here for one week to include Cambodia so more to follow……

At Camps International we are always looking for unique things to shout about. It might be artwork made from recycled flip flops or buildings built out of plastic bottles. This website was recently posted by one of our school expedition clients on our Facebook Fundraising page. James is travelling to Kenya with Ballard School in 2013. We love the use of the video and how he interacts with the page around him. Well done James and good luck filling your squares!!!

 Link here: http://web.me.com/johnhughes4/Site/James_Camps_International_Sponsorship.html