Global Village volunteer Aswin Andrison sends in a story about his experience in Kuching! Check it out here.
Diloi Anak Minjet, his wife Rosita Reda and their five children used to rent a house at Kampung Tabuan Dayak. In 2003, Diloi heard about Habitat’s housing programme from his manageress at the Sarawak Boat Club where he worked as a security guard. He made an application as the family wanted to own a house [...]
Rose Wong is the latest to blog about her build experience. She joined me and two other friends at a site in Kampung Senibong last Sunday for a half day build. She’s been wanting to come along ever since I blogged about my first trip, so I’m glad she finally made it!
Half a day doesn’t [...]
The title of this post echoes the opening line of a schmaltzy ’80s hit but, you know what, if Obama (my hero of the moment) can make a famous Ghandi quotation* his own,** I don’t see why I should be ashamed to say, yes, I have been inspired by Whitney . . . I really do believe the children are [...]
Barack Obama is President of the United States.
Not meaning to show my political bias here — this is not the venue — but Obama is good for Habitat. In case you didn’t know, in Sept, Obama Works Twin Cities did a build with Minneapolis HfH, and back in July 2006:
Barack Obama The US Senator for Illinois visited the Musicians [...]
This is a special shout out to Georgette Tan. Apart from helping revamp this site, Georgette came up with an amazing idea on her own initiative — for her birthday, she asked her friends, instead of giving her presents, to volunteer to build with Habitat or give a donation.
The successful birthday build is written up [...]
Hey hello, we’re Joyce and Joost from the Netherlands and we’ve been travelling through South East Asia for 9 months before we came to Kuching. After 9 months of travelling we really wanted to do something useful and stay in one place a little longer.
On the internet we found out about Habitat for Humanity Kuching. [...]
Amanda Newcomb at the Kuching affiliate office.
Amanda Newcomb didn’t know she would find herself in the wilds of Borneo towards the end of her 4-month internship with Habitat for Humanity (HfH) affiliate office in Singapore. When the chance to go and work in Kuching came unexpectedly, she jumped at it.
Office work, yes.
I actually do have some contribution to make to the Kuching office instead of just touring around, you know. I am working on developing HFH’s profile on ammado (a kind of Facebook for Non Profit Organizations). In particular, I have been tasked with setting up an online community for volunteers and friends to [...]
ORANGUTANS
One of the best reasons to come to Kuching is the amazing amount of wildlife and eco-system you can explore.
After my day of sweat and exercise at the Law house, I had the opportunity to do some sightseeing of this region. My tour guide was the fabulously knowledgeable, as well as newly elected President of [...]