The team with kids at the Kindergarten

Greetings from Borneo!

The arrivals of the July leapers few weeks ago was welcomed with much excitement by the communities and staff of Camp Borneo as always. Everyone is good and happy. Over the past few weeks the Leapers have been working really hard and got themselves stuck in with our Kindergarten foundation project in Camp Tinangol, putting up columns and cementing work. I have had the chance to visit them last week and took some pictures of them teaching English at the pre-school and Kindergarten project site. The building’s coming up nicely! During their time at Tinangol, they have taken part in many sports activities and also made a few trips to the beach and the Tip of Borneo before heading up to Batu Puteh.

They have nearly completed their reforestration work, which involved learning about the conservation issues, collecting seeds, planting hundreds of trees on Tungog Forest reserve and planting the seeds they collected during their trek at the tree nursery.

In just 5 days at Batu Puteh, they have also lived with a local host family at the Miso Walai homestay, been cruising down the mighty Kinabatangans river on the lookout for the  for the proboscis monkeys and slept in a hammock in the jungle! Today is their last day with tours organised for them to visit the P.O.W memorial park, the Buddhist Temple up on a hill overlooking a beautiful view of Sandakan Town and the harbour. And of course a trip to Sandakan is nothing without Viewing the Orangutans at Sepilok Centre. Tonight they get to wear a local traditional costume for them to attend a special traditional dance/musical performances by staff and community of Batu Puteh to thank them for their contribution. Tomorrow they will be heading back to Kota Kinabalu for a bit of R&R before going to their next adventure destination, trekking on the Crocker Range Jungle!

Cheers
Mel

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