By Lucy Radford | Engagement Manager
With all of Indonesia's schools closed until at least the end of May due to Covid-19, we want to bring you some happy stories and photos from the months prior to the lockdown.
In March, students from a junior high school based in another part of Sumatra visited Sekolah Alam Leuser for the second time. To entertain their guests, the students presented traditional dance performances. They also led them on tours of the school and adjacent permaculture and restoration projects and invited them to learn more about plant nurseries and maintenance, including growing rosella seedlings.
Though the school has limited sports facilities, the students enjoy being creative in practising sports skills. They use the office wall to practise table tennis, and make table tennis bats by recycling offcuts of wood.
Another creative activity the students enjoyed before the lockdown was cooking Javanese traditional food - Cenil and Lupis. The objective of this was to introduce students to various Indonesian traditional foods, so they will understand the richness of Indonesian culture through foods and carry on to preserve and share them in the future.
Thank you for continuing to support this project. The funds we're raising at the moment will help the school get back up and running, and keep providing high quality education for free, as soon as the lockdown ends.
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