Well today is the end of a very busy week..... And I'm exhausted! But it was a very good week and I am feeling good about a site planning process we have begun the community of tsunami badly destroyed village of Lampulo. After becoming somewhat familiar with the Village and starting to design a community facilitation process we set about organizing a community meeting at the local meunasah (mosque/ community hall). It was a really great experience and the input we got from the community was invaluable to the site plan that we will be producing. It is great that we have taken the time to do this will so many other NGOs are putting a lot their energies into production of houses without considering the social and community issued too much.

We had some interestingapproaches to uncover people's needs and tried to come up with new solutions for this rebirthing of the community. Rather then proposing what was exactly there before we went further to seek a new vision for a new time. I think everybody was engaged by this part of the process the community participants were active in putting their ideas forward and the staff to receive the ideas and input and refresh the work we are doing.

I like the way we have started and am looking forward to adjusting the meeting as fit and experimenting more with community facilitation. This was a great experience to get under my belt!

I am grateful to be surrounded by a great team who have pride in what we are doing and truly believe in the work. The are many complimenting forces on our team and the enthusiasm come the day of the meeting was infectious. Well I've included some pictures of the event.

I think it is time to get to bed after such a long day.....

till next time.

Nolan