Sari's photo journal from Monday 5 June 2006

As the nursing students were preparing to return to Bandung, five SGN volunteers from Sekaralas arrived, bringing donations from the people of Sekaralas of money, traditional woven bamboo walls called gedeg to build a children's centre, 35 bamboo poles, rice and clothing. One piece of standard sized gedeg in the Yogyakarta area costs around Aust $5.20, SGN are able to source gedeg from the Sekaralas region for around half that price.

Donated bamboo leaving the SGN centre in Sekaralas

Locals and volunteers from SGN Sekaralas working together bulding the children's centre using the traditional woven bamboo walls called gedeg

Volunteers from Sekaralas and locals in front of the completed children’s centre