Another journey

Driving down to the village some 200 kms from home is a challenge but to prove the power of communities is more challenge to me. Then I spent five days building two living weirs in a small village with no electricity and no phone signal. Feeling like living in an amazing world.

Many local people and organizations come to work together as volunteers. So it was very impressive to meet new friends and network. I was surrounded with  strangers but felt comfortable with sincere smiles and greetings.

Very lovely to walk along a small dirt way in the wood in a foggy morning to the weir site and walk back home in late evening under the beautiful moonlight.

The weirs were built to solve the problems of drought in summer and flood in rainy season. It is not just a weir but it is the tool to bring in cooperation and the belief of people power where villagers know their potential to work out their own problems.