2018 Wauchope Rotary Club, Australian International Partnership Project with Canggu Rotary Club, Bali

Wauchope

Salam Ubud

Salam Children's Home is a school & home for children whose parents cannot afford to feed & clothe them. These parents are usually tenant farmers with other children & are Bali's poorest of the poor. The identified need for the school which we're aiming to help is four new toilet & shower facilities attached to sleeping barracks & an additional septic tank. The current toilets are old, unsanitary, dilapidated & are some distance from the sleeping barracks- an issue during the night time & during the frequent rainfall.

The Project 4 Bathrooms and Septic System Salam Children Home - Project cost $9750 - Rupiah 10,000 to 1 AUD - Materials and labour all included

Here we go Marking the footings and foundations

Mark Savage from Canggu Rotary Club Mr Gusti – Manager of Salam Putu – the builder Paul Pollett – Wauchope Rotary Club

Set out for the bathrooms Steel columns in slip area

Plumbing for water and septic

Besser Blocks Arrive Unloaded onto the street by hand – 1280 Besser blocks.

Cement, plumbing pipes and wire ties 140 bags of cement – not a light weight to be carried down by hand!

Unloading the Gravel I asked “Why not use a tipper?” The answer was, “well that would put 4 more people out of work!”

Child labour?? These kids were happy to move all the blocks approximately 160 metres down hill. I left them 50 pairs of gloves and said make sure that you’re wearing shoes. Well, as you can see, they’re happy!

Working on a chain gang

The Steepness of the hill Lots of cutting in and digging and filling

Pass the concrete please! 64 buckets being passed from the mixing machine to the footings and slabs

Bathroom walls with access holes

More concrete – still smiling!

Windows gone – doors to come!

Roof is on! Woohoo!

Mrs Gusti – manageress supervising. What’s holding up the concrete?

The old septic tank Electrical and plumbing found flowing through the broken down septic tank that overflowed regularly and then ran into the creek system in the hills.

Bringing in the sand and blocks

Discussions of the septic

The hole Dug by hand – no machines, broken up by crow bars, shovels and picks. Dug by the boys – five days later, they were finished and still smiling.

The difference between sand and gravel If it goes through the mesh, it’s sand, if it lands on my boots, it’s gravel! 9 hours a day, this lady shoveled the sand. $28 aussie dollars per day.

The pit (septic tank) As you can see - done by hand. 9 metres long, 3 metres deep, and 3 metres wide. 3 chambers to carry 14 toilets and 9 showers allowing for 3 more bathrooms later ….. no more effluent going to the river.

The two brothers – ‘Made’ and Paul This is the man who helped me to transport the materials, get all the prices, talked to the people I needed to, and went out of his way to help. He became family.

Sponsors and the Team Major Sponsors: Aaron and Samantha Hajinakitas Doctor Kathryn Stewart Wauchope Rotary Club Paul and Suzanne Pollett And thank you to all our other sponsors! Project Team: Wauchope Rotary(Australia) Kevin and Marg Whitbread Reg Pierce Canguu Rotary (Bali) Gil Grant Mark Savage

A world wise man once said: “If we can’t help children in the world, you have to ask yourself why are we here?”