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Anna visited the Biacha School Project and the Dabang fruit Project

Anna, Jamie, Thomas and Rosalind (new volunteer teacher) visited Biacha School and the Kiwi, Pomelo and Golden Pear plantations on 11 July 2007. They travelled there in the car owned by NCL as the county chief did not have a car available for use.  They went to see the school which was completed two weeks earlier.

One week previously, the students moved in to study in the four rooms  which have been equipped with blackboard, desks and chairs. Their summer holidays began two days before the visit. As Mr. Ma did not get the keys for the classrooms from the principal, they inspected the classrooms through the windows.  According to Mr. Ma, at the moment the classrooms in the new school are assigned to Primary One to Four.

On their return from the school visit in the afternoon, the principal of the Dabang School took the group to see the fruit plantation.  The hill path leading to the plantations was very bad and very muddy.  They went to see the golden pear plantation and pomelo next, followed by the kiwi fruit farm. The school principal informed the group that the harvest would be small this year as they would be trimming the branches to enable the trees to give a better harvest next year.  The group spent almost two hours at the fruit plantation. The Kiwi fruit Project is funded by a Hong Kong woman while the Golden Pear and Pomelo Farm is funded by the Brunei Group.