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Gardening Day in Bale Tau

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Gardening can encourage the development and our attitude to love the environment. By taking time to garden, children will get to experience to learn how the plant grows, where fruit and vegetables come from, and learn the natural cycle of nature. Gardening encourages children to deal directly with their surroundings. It is certainly nice …
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Solar Energy in Bale Tau

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We’ve been trialling our new ‘Sun King’ solar panel system for over two months now and we’re pleased to say that it’s working great! Even though the panel is small it’s proved to provide more than we need for three hanging lamps and also enough to charge phones every morning. …
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Operasi Semut: Clearing Our Local Area of Non-Organic Waste

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On the 17th of May CLEAR Community united together to carry out what we liked to call ‘Operasi Semut’ (Operation Ant). Armed with rubbish bags and observant eyes the anti-littering warriors patrolled through Bale Tau’s luscious, green jungle-garden, through the neighbouring land and out along the street as slow as …
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Batukaras CLEAR Awards 2016

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On March 6 2016 we held a Batukaras CLEAR Awards party celebrating all those who have been working together to support the environment in the Batukaras area and making CLEAR beach clean events and other activities  a success. The event included local government, community leaders, students and teachers of elementary / …
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“Belajar Bersama” – Our Weekly “Learn Together” Club

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We have started a weekly ‘learn-together’ session every Tuesday as part of the Green School initiative at our learning space, Bale ϕ Tau Batukaras. The kids learn a mixture of English Language, Environmental Studies and Creative Arts and Crafts. The sessions are in collaboration with Villa Monyet Batukaras who kindly give the class leader’s time for …
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Kids Recycling Arts and Crafts – ‘Ngabuburrit’ and ‘Buka Bersama’

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The month of Ramadan is not the best time to organise beach cleaning because people are fasting and would get too thirsty and hungry, so instead we made an afternoon ‘Ngabuburrit’ art and craft event at Bale ϕ Tau, our new community space for Belajar Bersama (‘learning-together’). Around 80 kids of …
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Traditional Wedding – Our Opening Event at Bale ϕ Tau

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Our first major event at Bale ϕ Tau was a unusual mix of traditional Sundanese (regional culture) wedding ceremony and live reggae concert! The wedding opened with the traditional Upacara Adat ceremony involving martial arts and role-playing theatre, which was followed by traditional artists performing Pencak Silat martial arts, Jaipong dance and Ronggeng …
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Creating Space to Learn Together – Bale ϕ Tau – Our New Community Building

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Construction of Bale ϕ Tau, our community centre for ‘learning together’ (‘belajar bersama’), has been a great experience this year. It is a very simple building based around local vernacular design and built by hand without electricity on-site using traditional construction techniques… …plus a few added twist and turn design evolutions 🙂 …
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