SARIRI UPDATE

Rotary Club of Warrnambool at work helping villagers recover from devastating damage from Cyclone Guba, Oro Province on the North East coast of Papua New Guinea.

This is the second of a series of articles describing the project progress.
 

2011: (6 team members from the Rotary Club of Geelong on site in Sariri)

Purchased and provided a “Lucas bush Mill”; A village head man, Elijah Sarigari, was brought to Creswick (Victoria) for 3 weeks to be trained on the use of the saw. 

The Bush Mill is used by the villagers to mill their timber to facilitate the construction of the “stronger houses” they had asked Rotary to show them how to build.  Planning is underway for the shipping of milled timber to Australia as an income generating project.

The Geelong team trained the villagers in how to set out and build houses using what we would consider conventional methods of construction.

By the time the 2011 team left one house was completed and two more were in different stages of construction.