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 for …
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. Bale Tau is ‘off-grid’ meaning …
On the 5th of June CLEAR Community celebrated World Environment Day in fantastic, craftastic style at our very own Bale Tau. The day kicked off with a rigorous clean of the river that runs right alongside our land. The boys started work at 8am so as to avoid the midday sun and in about …
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 ants in order to meticulously …
Operasi Semut: Clearing Our Local Area of Non-Organic Waste Read More »
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 / junior high / high schools, …
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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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 all ages came along …
Kids Recycling Arts and Crafts – ‘Ngabuburrit’ and ‘Buka Bersama’ Read More »
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 dance, with live music …
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Our second community beach clean turned out to be an even more resounding success than the first! On the 30th March we were joined by over 200 people from the local community, including schools and other local organisations. Great work everyone! 😀 The fact that the 30th March was in the middle of a …
Sand Warriors return… with new recruits joining the war on waste…. Read More »
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 🙂 … ϕTau (Phi …
Creating Space to Learn Together – Bale ϕ Tau – Our New Community Building Read More »
