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Last month, ASRI hosted their second weekend-long Planetary Health Camp! Students from four different villages (Simpang Hilir, Teluk Batang, Seponti and Sukadana) came to ASRI to participate in the program. A total of forty-three campers got the chance to hike through the rainforest, perform hands-on experiments, and learn about climate change and the environment.
Nina Finley writes about her experiencing visiting ASRI Kids, Alam Sehat Lestari's education program for 5th graders. This is the third in a series of blog posts from Nina. (Read more about Nina's travels on her blog Natural Selections.)
Sitting on giant blue plastic tarps to protect from the ever-damp ground, I was among about 100 villagers in the chief's front yard, gathered to watch two new short films about to be projected onto a giant white sheet strung across the front porch. The films, about the relationship between human and environmental health and how the villages could benefit by taking care of both, starred some of their neighbors.
I was really nervous. I had produced and directed these films. Read More
2013 has been a big year for Health In Harmony and our project partner ASRI! We are deeply grateful for all you, our supporters, have made possible this year. Check out our highlights:
Guest blog by Josh Fleming
Josh and Etty pose with ASRI Kids.
So what is ASRI? I find myself contemplating this question upon arriving back home from my time spent away. Trying to properly convey to myself or furthermore others not having been a witness to the beauty and scope of ASRI, is no simple feat in itself. It is hard to easily define and put into words ASRI’s full magnitude and the breadth of complexities of this intricately designed program, but I wish to be so bold and try to articulate the essence of what I believe ASRI to be in my most humble opinion.
Radiant smiles, ears of corn, eye glasses and orangutans: Reflections on Gratitude
See a gallery of photos I took on the trip here:
Crossing the tarmac at Ketapang’s outpost airport, I am momentarily caught in a gulp of sadness. I follow my traveling companions Nichol Simpson (Health In Harmony’s Development Director) and Toni Gorog, Ph.D. (Health In Harmony’s Program Director) on board the 138-passenger Aviastar Airbus to "Fly Safe and Comfort" back to Jakarta where twenty-one hours later and a time zone or two, we’ll reach our homes in Oregon and California where winter awaits. My sadness is not because I’ve gathered up a ring of new friendships I wistfully leave behind, though that has happened, but because I know in the deep well of my heart that I’ve stepped across an invisible threshold and will never be the same again even though I know I don’t completely know how so -- yet.
